Senior Software Engineer

Oritain is a global leader in forensically verifying the origin of products and raw materials. Through our proprietary methodology we harness cutting edge science, advanced technology, and specialized services to empower the world’s leading brands to ensure product integrity, meet regulatory demands, and reduce the risk of fraud and unethical sourcing.

With offices in Auckland, Dunedin, London, Singapore and Washington D.C, our vision is to be the source of truth in global supply chains. Harnessing science, technology and services, our mission is to create a community of origin verified buyers and suppliers, protecting our people and the planet. Through forensic origin verification, we empower brands to make positive changes across their supply chain- creating real change in our world.

About the Role

The Senior Software Engineer plays a key role in designing and building new customer-facing applications and APIs that sit at the heart of our product offering.

The role works across the full stack, with a focus on building robust backend services and modern, responsive front-end experiences.

Key Responsibilities

Backend Development

• Design, build and maintain scalable backend services and RESTful/GraphQL APIs using Python (Django or FastAPI).

• Write clean, well-tested, production-grade code with a focus on reliability and performance.

• Design and implement data models, working with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and cloud-native data services.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, ensuring automated testing, linting and deployment as standard.

Frontend Development

• Build modern, responsive user interfaces using React (TypeScript), delivering polished user experiences.

• Collaborate with product and design to translate requirements and wireframes into functional, accessible UI components.

• Ensure frontend performance, accessibility and cross-browser compatibility.

Platform & Infrastructure

• Work within a cloud-native environment on Microsoft Azure, contributing to infrastructure decisions and service architecture.

• Contribute to observability, monitoring and alerting for production services.

• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis when issues arise.

Collaboration & Ownership

• Take ownership of features end-to-end, from technical design through to delivery and iteration.

• Participate actively in code reviews, architectural discussions, and sprint ceremonies.

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Significant professional experience (typically 5+ years) in software engineering, with a strong track record of delivering production systems.

• Backend proficiency in Python (Django or FastAPI), with the ability to design and build APIs and services from scratch.

• Strong frontend experience with React (TypeScript), including component architecture, state management and modern tooling.

• Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred), including schema design, query optimisation and migrations.

• Experience with cloud platforms, ideally Microsoft Azure, and familiarity with containerisation (Docker) and CI/CD practices.

• A pragmatic, product-minded approach to engineering – you care about what you are building, not just how.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative, cross-functional team.

Desirable

• Experience with data engineering concepts: ETL/ELT pipelines, data modelling, or working with data platforms (e.g. Databricks, Azure Data Factory).

• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, message queues (e.g. Kafka, Azure Service Bus) or streaming data.

• Experience working with scientific, geospatial or time-series data.

• Exposure to infrastructure as code (Terraform) or platform engineering practices.

• Experience in a high-growth startup or scale-up environment.

• Comfort working with AI-assisted development tools and an interest in integrating AI capabilities into products.

Company Benefits

• Paid Leave- 35 days (inclusive of public holidays)

• Birthday Off

• Volunteering Leave Allowance

• Enhanced Parental Leave

• Life Insurance

• Healthcare Cash Plan

• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

• Pension

• Monthly Wellbeing Allowance

• Breakfast, Snacks, Friday lunch & Barista Coffee Machine in the office

• Learning Portal with over 100,000 assets available to support professional development

• Hybrid working set-up (Minimum 3+ days, Farringdon- London)

We believe great teams are built from different perspectives, experiences, and ways of thinking. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage you to bring your whole self to the process. If there’s anything we can do to support you, including any reasonable adjustments at any stage of hiring, please let the team know.