Full Stack Developer (Frontend)

What is the purpose of the Fullstack Developer’s role?
The Full Stack Developer’s purpose is to help Snapper deliver excellence to its customers across the frontend, backend
and applied data spaces — building customer-facing product features on top of the data foundations designed by our data engineering team.
This is a core role in our Development team, building and testing our frontend and backend applications while implementing interfaces and design systems in partnership with our product and design teams.
You’ll
bring proven experience to this role, employing your skillset to help Snapper deliver excellent product to our customers.
Reports to: Development / Engineering Lead
Direct reports: None
Key relationships: Wider technical team, including our product and design teams, Solution Architecture and DevOps, and the data engineering and QA teams
Based in: Wellington, NZ
What does the Fullstack Developer do?
Software development is shifting, with a wider coverage of the technology spectrum made
possible through AI. Snapper encourages developers to go deep in one particular space, and
this role would ideally focus on frontend development.
Building and maintaining responsive, accessible web
interfaces in collaboration with the
product and design teams
Developing clean, clear and scalable APIs that connect our frontend, backend, and data
layers
Applying established design systems and component patterns
Developing and testing applications, including following and improving best practices for frontend, backend, and data development
Pair programming with other developers, sharing and building skillsets across the team
Accurately translating user and business requirements into functional code
Contributing to planning new projects in collaboration with our wider development and
product teams
Providing constructive feedback and support to the team via PR reviews
Following and improving our processes for CI/CD and its configuration
Contributing to proof-of-concept projects to explore new technologies ahead of
implementation
Championing our release processes to ensure deployments are planned and executed
efficiently
What will help you to
be successful in this role?
This role sits at intermediate to senior level
— you’ll
bring proven, hands-on experience rather
than needing to
build the fundamentals on the job:
Proven, production experience with Angular/TypeScript/Java/Python
Practical experience with modern CSS, responsive layout, and web accessibility (WCAG)
Experience with component architecture and design system
best practice
Solid AWS experience (Lambda, API Gateway, S3/CloudFront, RDS)
Comfortable acting as a peer reviewer, giving and receiving direct technical feedback
Experience with testing frameworks such as Playwright, Jasmine, Cucumber
Agile Development experience, specifically Scrum
Understanding of state management and component composition patterns
Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps best practice
You will need 3–6+ years’ professional development experience. You’ll
bring genuine curiosity
about customer needs and strong empathy for the people who rely on our products, confidence
communicating clearly across a diverse team, and comfort working in a fast-paced, changing
environment.

Employment type
Fulltime

Work arrangement
No