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1. nick-w+bOD[view] [source] 2025-09-15 04:48:56
>>whoish+(OP)
Watchful | Software Engineer Generalist, SRE, Designer | Full-time | ONSITE | Auckland, New Zealand

Watchful is disrupting the security monitoring sector with AI-accelerated camera monitoring. We’re currently growing rapidly and are looking for talented individuals to help scale up our capacity, deliver excellent user experiences and ensure our systems are air-tight and resilient.

Get in touch if you’re interested in joining a burgeoning startup that is quietly disrupting the security monitoring market and growing rapidly. We will briefly be hiring for the following roles:

Software Engineer Roles (>= Intermediate): - 5+ years experience as SWE - Generalist, product-minded software engineers that can switch between frontend, infra, backend and more - High impact role, directly influencing product/engineering direction - Self-driven, shows initiative, autonomous - Join a team of 4 existing engineers

Designer role: - 3+ years of design experience - Ability to code simple frontends like marketing websites (using AI is fine) - High influence/impact on design direction - Self-driven and able to deliver without much hand-holding - Work directly with lead designer

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE): - 5+ years of experience - Expert at terraform, cloud services, observability and CI/CD - Able to take initiative to secure, lock down and make reliable the parts of the platform you see fit - Opportunity to drive the SRE culture and make the platform bulletproof

If you’re interested in applying for any of these roles please get in touch with nick.sinclair [at] watchful.co.nz. If you are concerned about lack of experience, get in touch anyway - happy to entertain taking bets on younger, talented engineers/designers.

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2. design+YqY[view] [source] 2025-09-21 18:47:49
>>nick-w+bOD
Interested in the design role - thanks for posting this. What kind of work are you looking for in the portfolio? More brand/website design work or SaaS products? I'm a product-focused designer, and can learn the tech, but I have enterprise UX experience and have run customer discovery and the likes of it.

Just checking if there's one or the other you are looking at, for this role.

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