Software Engineer APAC ID (3745)

About GBG 

GBG is the leading expert in global identity and location. In an increasingly digital world, GBG helps businesses grow by giving them intelligence to make the best decisions about their customers, when it matters most. 

Every second, our global data, agile technology, and expert teams, power over 20,000 of the world's best-known organisations to reach and trust their customers. 

Why you should be@GBG

Reach

The precision of location data is critical to businesses that need to know exactly where their customers are so they can reduce failed deliveries, share great customer experiences and remove unnecessary costs. We provide the unique insight to know locations as well as the people who live there, because we understand global addresses better than anyone else.

This means our customers have confidence that their products and services will arrive in time and to the right location In the race to serve global customers, we exist to help every business in the world, reach every customer in the world. 

Trust

When a digital business grows, most customers are genuine. However, many are fraudsters who manipulate identities to gain illegitimate access. We give our customers unique insight to decide which are trustworthy and which are fraudulent, because we understand identity better than anyone else.

This means businesses can confidently onboard good customers, reward great customers and reject fraudsters. In the fight against Identity, Fraud, trust is key, so the more you can know and the earlier you know it, the better decisions you can make.

About the team

APAC ID&F Technology Group

The APAC ID&F Technology Group is responsible for supporting and developing GBG’s regional Identity Verification product suites (greenID, GBG Trust: Alert & CloudCheck) and for GBG’s new Application and Transaction Monitoring Fraud products & platforms (NextGen).

The role

This role, working within the APAC ID team, will report to the Engineering Manager (NZ) to primarily gather requirements, design, develop enhancements and support the CloudCheck production system. It is a true all-round role and requires a quick learner with a good attention to detail and ability to prioritise their work.  In time, the scope of work may extend to the other identity systems in the region.

What you will do

Development

• Work with the business to refine development requirements and contribute to the design the requirements
• Deliver development requirements in a timely manner
• Help refine and deliver new product ideas

Maintenance & Support

• Maintain & improve the stability of Cloudcheck
• Fix bugs and release these fixes in a timely and professional manner on a schedule to suit business requirements
• Look for processing improvements and implement where necessary
• When escalated by the business, support external IT contacts with their IT issues

Enhancements

• Identify product and process enhancements
• Outline the role responsibilities in a bullet point list

Requirements

What we are looking for

Essential

• Java web development experience
• API integrations
• Database integrations (Hibernate)
• Ability to work unsupervised

Desired

• AWS experience
• Auckland based
• Legally entitled to work in New Zealand

Behaviours we'd like to see

Benefits

To find out more

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing fair opportunities for everyone regardless of age, gender race/ ethnicity, sex, religion, age, nationality, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits. Everybody is welcome and our inclusion and diversity programme, be/yourself, is designed to ensure that you can thrive. Please inform your GBG Talent Attraction Partner if you require any reasonable adjustments to the interview process.

To chat to the Talent Attraction team and find out more about our benefits and why we’re a great place to work, drop an email to [email protected] and we’ll be in touch. You can also check out our career site here.

Why not apply and make life@GBG work for you?