Software Engineer (Flight Yield)

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About Airways:
\n Our peoplemanage New Zealand's 30 million square kms of airspace, providing air trafficcontrol, surveillance, communication, flight inspection, mapping, and airspacedesign services. We work with government, regulatory authorities, airlines,airports, and the general aviation community to ensure pilots, passengers andgoods reach their destination - safely. At Airways, our values underpin allthat we do.We value Safety, One Airways, Excellence and Success in allthat we do.

Ourorganisation is made up of operational business groups that are supported bygovernance and corporate services functions. To learn more about our people andorganisational structure, check out www.airways.co.nz/about.

About the Team:
\n The Air Traffic Services Development (ATSD) unitsets the requirements, architects, designs, develops, tests, deploys andmaintains New Zealand’s Air Traffic Management systems and AeronauticalInformation systems utilised within New Zealand airspace.

Airways has also developed, and continues tomaintain and enhance, its own aeronautical billing system called FlightYield TM which is critical for the financial operation ofthe business.

We design and maintain our own Air Traffic Management (ATM) systems and additional supporting systems which providecritical inputs into the ATM systems. That means we write and maintain the codethat runs our mission and safety critical systems. It requires strong attentionto detail and systematic approach to development, whilst looking to the latestenhancements through continuous improvement.

About the Role:
\n We’reexpanding our FlightYield team with an opportunity for an additional SoftwareEngineer to join us on a permanent full-time basis at our Christchurch campus.

In the roleyou’ll architect, design, develop, test, document, deploy, maintain and supportthe existing real-time critical FlightYield system. In the future you’ll play apart in the systems lifecycle replacement.

For a fulllist of tasks and responsibilities, refer to the position description attachedto the advert on our careers site.

About You:
\n This role isbest suited for a driven, proactive software engineer who enjoys complexproblem solving, working as a team and some office banter.

To beconsidered, you will hold:

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• Anhonours or master’s degree in computer science or software engineering. Alternatively,a numerical degree with demonstratable equivalent experience
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• Atleast two years’ experience working in a software development team with astructured development environment
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• Aproven record of efficiently and productively producing high quality designs,code and documentation
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• Abilityto work in a dynamic business, collaborate with people, show resilience andagility, take ownership and focus on delivering successful outcomes.
  
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Beneficial:

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• Experiencein Enterprise Java Bean development and deployment, and application server managemente.g. IBM WebSphere, Glassfish
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• Experiencein development of web-based applications, APIs and related areas
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• Experiencein the use of Java Server Faces frameworks e.g. PrimeFaces
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• Experiencein real-time, safety critical systems.
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About OurOffering:
\n Airways offersa competitive package inclusive of a solid base salary and a generoussuperannuation scheme with employer contributions of up to 11% of earnings(T&Cs). We also offer five (5) weeks annual leave, vast learningopportunities, career progression opportunities, and a hybrid working modelprovides flexibility and support.

You will work on a system that istechnically complex and very interesting. Additionally, you will work in closepartnership with a dedicated team of controllers and pilots responsible foroperational requirements and acceptance testing, and with system engineers,network engineers, and other specialist engineers supporting the multipletechnologies employed.

Airways is agreat place to work, with an international reputation for innovation andsuccess.

Please note that you must be legally eligible to work in New Zealand to be considered.

This role will require the successful candidate to undergo pre-employment background checks including references, drug and alcohol screening, criminal conviction, and related checks.

Application closing date is Wednesday, 19 August2026.

At Airways, our people are at the heartof what we do to keep NZ skies safe. We are committed to creating a diverse,equitable and inclusive workplace where people feel they belong and can bring their whole self to work. We currently hold the Rainbow Tick and NQTick(neurodiversity) and are working towards Gender Tick. Wemake our recruitment decisions based on the best candidate for the job andtherefore encourage applications from diverse candidates.