About Contented

Contented is a New Zealand software company built on a simple belief: the future of work is conversational. We're building the AI-powered workspace to prove it.

Every day, teams have conversations that matter, client meetings, board updates, site walkthroughs, and let the value in them disappear the moment the call ends.

Contented turns those conversations into structured business documentation automatically, so nothing gets lost. Customers like BDO, Craigs Investment Partners, Duncan Cotterill, and Alliance Group already run it as part of how they work.

We're not just building software, we're building a movement. Our work was featured at the UN General Assembly, we're partnering with great businesses worldwide, and our lead technical advisor is a former Microsoft VP. We're growing fast and looking for people who want to grow with us.

Engineering at Contented

Most AI meeting tools assume a video call, a good microphone, and a stable connection. Our customers are on farms, on construction sites, in clinics, and in client boardrooms where the laptop is closed and the wifi is a rumour.

That constraint is the whole engineering problem, and it's why the work here is harder and more interesting than it looks from the outside. Things the team has built to solve it:

• Offline-first capture that records, queues, and reconciles without a connection
• A Windows-first desktop deployment customers' IT teams will actually approve, MSI and all
• Native iPhone and Android capture, so the workspace follows the conversation
• A template engine that builds a customer's document structure from their own existing documents, rather than asking them to configure anything
• A passwordless authentication migration across roughly 10,000 users with no support spike
• Documentation pipelines that hold up to regulated review in wealth management, law, healthcare, and agriculture

The role

You'll work across the stack, React frontend through to backend systems, and own features end to end: building, testing, shipping, and watching how customers actually use them. You'll do that alongside senior engineers and our lead technical advisor, a former Microsoft VP, with real code review and real mentorship rather than a ticket queue.

We're a team of 18. What you ship this month will be in front of customers this month. That's the appeal and also the pressure.

Contented might be a good fit for you if you

• Have a couple of years or more building and shipping production software, and can work across the stack from React through to APIs and databases
• Are strong in React and genuinely curious about what happens behind it
• Use AI-assisted development tools well, without having skipped the underlying craft
• Love writing code, but love having impact more. You look for the pragmatic 80/20 rather than the elegant 100
• Hold your opinions loosely and change your mind when the evidence says to
• Ask when you're stuck, early, rather than disappearing into a problem for three days
• Would describe yourself as relentlessly resourceful
• Have a strong internal sense of urgency and a bias towards doing things today, rather than tomorrow
• Are energised by building something new rather than maintaining what exists
• Are excited about the adventure of building a company

Startup experience helps but isn't required. Neither is Electron, though you'll pick it up here.

What we offer

• A small, high-trust team where your work is visible in the product, not buried in it
• Real ownership over what you build, with senior engineers around you while you grow into it
• Flexible hours. Office-first, with flexibility to work from home when you need it
• Monthly team lunches, celebrating wins together
• Office in Christchurch CBD, free snacks, drinks on tap, social spaces, and one of the best cafes in Christchurch 50 metres away

Our hiring process

1. Initial conversation about your experience and what you want next
2. Technical deep-dive where you walk us through something you've built and how you think
3. Team interviews, a few 30-minute sessions with engineers and the product team

FAQs

How far along are we? We've 3x'd our revenue with 400+ business customers globally, and a team of 18. We raised a seed round led by Altered Capital after bootstrapping to over $1M ARR ourselves. We're targeting some big goals by year end, so the next few months matter.

Is this a chill gig? No. Fast-growing startups are hard, and there is always more to do than there are people to do it. You'll have a lot of responsibility from early on. It's hard work, and the ownership is real.

What's the stack? React on the front end, with desktop and mobile capture clients and a backend that handles transcription, document generation, and enterprise integrations. Happy to go deeper with candidates in process.

Is there a path to senior here? Yes, and it's short. We're building the engineering team now, so the people who join early shape what the roles above them look like.

At Contented, we value diversity in all forms. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. If you need any reasonable adjustments during the interview process, please let us know when you apply.

Contented is headquartered in Christchurch, New Zealand. Candidates must have the right to live and work in New Zealand.