Systems Engineer
Location: NZ, N, Wellington
Department: Infrastructure
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Unspecified
Industry: Computer Software
Function: Information Technology
Company profile: Vend is looking for some awesome new talent to come join us. You'll be working in an awesome team doing awesome things, and generally being awesome.Learn about us on our blog, or meet the team on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedInAwesome SpaceOur brand new Auckland office space is located on Nuffield Street in Newmarket, surrounded by our customers and the industry we love. It is huge, open, and shiny new with great meeting room spaces, casual working environments and plenty of space to host awesome events. We don't do cubicles, just plenty of space, whiteboards and meetings rooms. We also have a great cafe/retail space with our very own Front of House Manager taking care of our visitors and fellow Venders. Like Auckland our Melbourne office is surrounded by retail. It's a great wee space equipped with tiny houses and some awesome cardboard cutout animals.Our Toronto office is located right in the heart of downtown retail district. Like Melbourne and Auckland there's a great vibe with great coffee, boutique stores and some of the greatest restaurants in the city. Our SoMa office in San Francisco is located in the middle of the SF tech scene, just a (Biz) stone's throw from Twitter.The EnvironmentWe want you to be at the top of your game. You can wear whatever clothing you like, start work late in the morning, take breaks whenever you want and generally work the way you want to work. Who we're looking forVend is looking for people to push the boundaries. We are a hard working professional team with a wicked sense of humour, and we are looking for people who thrive in a collaborative open environment. We want passionate, hard working, talented individuals that want to lead in their field.
Description: Who are we?Vend is an award winning web based point of sale software for retail.  We’re chucking out crusty old cash registers and replacing them with iPads, touch screens and beautiful software, all of this to make life easier for our retailers.  Vend is a fast-growing tech start-up, since launching in 2010 we’ve now got 10,000+ customers all over the world and have more than 130 employees. Do you want to do cool shit?We're serious about continuous delivery here at Vend and we've got a pretty slick operation in place. Check out the presentation one of our team gave at the last CD meet-up here. Our systems engineering team do so many different things including (but not limited to):1. Scalability2. Availability3. Performance4. Security.... 5. Procurement of GIFsHow do we do it? We use Puppet to manage our servers, various Ruby tools to deploy and build our code and development environments, PHP / Symfony 1.4 to build our app, github to manage it, Linux, Percona, Redis, nginx, PHP-FPM  to host it, New Relic, Ganglia, Server Density to monitor it, and anything else that we find to be useful. They've also got some seriously cool projects in the pipeline including the implementation of ElasticSearch.Do you want to work with a seriously smart team?Meet Morgan, Dom, Nick, Scott, Robin and Rafael. Click on their photos to find out more about them!If you're totally pumped after having a look through Nick's presentation and think these guys look like a cool bunch then get in touch with us now! We'd love to hear from you.
Benefits: What can you expect from us?An open culture where we openly share our results and where your input is valuedFun at work!  Like playing pool whenever you want, getting a zombie makeover, or playing Minecraft on our dedicated Vend server.Work-life balance.  We know you have a life outside of work.  At Vend you can have a life inside work, too. Utilise all your talents. Not just the ones written in your job description.We welcome all of you at work.  We don’t want you to leave your personality at the door. So, get out of the Command Line for a moment and get in touch.  While Vend is totally open to receiving applications from people based overseas, our recruitment process for technical talent is lengthy and involves a lot of face-to-face time between our candidates and existing team members here. We can start initial stages of interviewing using awesome technology like Skype and Google Hangouts, we really need you to be here and to have hung out with us in Auckland before making a job offer.
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