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Principal Engineer  Auckland A bit about us For over 19 years, ClearPoint has been the trusted technology partner for organisations navigating complex digital transformation. We combine software engineering, AI, data and insights, cloud, and human-centred design to deliver meaningful, lasting outcomes. We work with some of New Zealand's most impactful organisations - and we care deeply about the quality of what we build. Our Auckland head office overlooks the Viaduct (5 minutes from Britomart), with co-working access across NZ and Australia. Through innovative thinking, we strive to make a difference for ourselves, our teams, our clients and our community across New Zealand, Australia and the UK. The ClearPoint culture At ClearPoint, we're proud of the culture we've built - collaborative, curious, and high-performing. Our values aren't just words: Respect and Care for People Act with Integrity Earn and Nurture Trust You'll work with sharp, passionate people who take ownership, raise the bar, and genuinely enjoy what they do. Based out of Auckland, you'll be part of a team that invests in your growth and makes space for you to shine. The role Ready to get stuck into a substantial modernisation challenge? ClearPoint is hiring a Principal Engineer on a permanent, full-time basis to lead the charge on service decomposition and architectural evolution. We're currently humming with new work, and you'll be a primary technical resource - a polyglot architect assessing complex architectures and leading the shift toward modern service-based environments across our client portfolio. This is a senior, organisation-shaping seat. You'll set enterprise tech strategy, drive adoption of transformative technology, and define the governance, guardrails and agent communication protocols that underpin a high-performance engineering culture where AI augments how we deliver. As a strategic advisor and trusted partner to C-suite clients, you'll translate vision into actionable plans, shape client roadmaps, surface commercial opportunities from real business pain points, and be relied on for high-stakes decisions that affect ClearPoint's long-term reputation. Executive presence is the through-line - you compel change through storytelling, break down silos and facilitate cross-practice collaboration. A degree of flexibility around occasional work-related travel is also part of the picture. The experience we're looking for — most of the below if not all! Deep expertise in modern software engineering, with a proven track record of modernising monolithic applications into service-based architectures and supporting large-scale digital transformations through the cultural and operational shifts that come with them. Proven expertise in client delivery management and operations - designing, building and deploying high-quality digital engineering solutions across teams and organisations. Advanced skills across modern back-end and front-end stacks (e.g. Java/Spring, .NET/C#, Node.js, TypeScript/React, Angular or Vue.js) with the ability to pivot across different technologies as client engagements demand. A solid handle on cloud-native deployment patterns - Kubernetes and containerisation across AWS, Azure or GCP - paired with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation). Hands-on experience with API design and integration patterns (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), event-driven architectures (Kafka, Service Bus, EventBridge), and building de-coupled, reusable, component-based applications. Strong grasp of authentication and application security fundamentals (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, secrets management, zero-trust patterns), comfort across modern data platforms (SQL, NoSQL, streaming), and a track record with observability and reliability engineering - distributed tracing, structured logging, SLOs/SLIs (OpenTelemetry, Datadog, App Insights or similar). Experience conducting codebase deep-dives to identify architectural patterns, anti-patterns and hidden dependenci