Description:
DescriptionRole – Senior Full Stack Engineer
• Permanent
• Location: Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast
• Hybrid working model (2 days per week in the office + WFH)
How will I help?
Westpac Group has a rich heritage and offers employees a multitude of opportunities. We aim to attract the best people inside and outside of the business – building an organisation where the best talent thrives.
The Westpac Group has been proudly advancing Australia for two centuries. Our success is built upon both our heritage and our ability to evolve. We’re setting ourselves up to be Australia’s No. 1 Bank and we have an exciting change agenda ahead.
We have an exciting opportunity for a senior engineer who is energetic and enthusiastic to join the Customer Engagement Technology team within Consumer Technology as a full stack engineer as part of our new staff digital platform. The Customer Engagement team is responsible for owning and delivering changes for all our customer facing staff across sales and servicing.
You will be part of our Digital Banker squads working on a new program called UNITE looking at simplifying our staff experience through our new Digital Banker platform capability. UNITE is our business-led, technology-enabled simplification program. The program’s focus is about making our processes, systems and tech simpler to improve service to customers, grow our business, make Westpac a better place to work for our people and reduce risk.
Your key responsibilities include:
• Collaborate with team members in a cross-functional team to deliver world-class and high-quality products for Westpac Digital platform.
• Write clean code & build applications in line with the best practices.
• A practical approach to development including the reuse of shared components and open-source projects rather than always reinventing the wheel.
• REST API design using Open API Swagger specification by following the REST API guidelines.
• Lead the diagnosis and resolution of complex service issues to ensure effective development, maintenance, and support of applications.
• Keep the code free from vulnerabilities by performing NPM audit / SONAR scans regularly.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies.
• Provide technical guidance/coaching/mentoring to other engineers.
• Contribute and be an advocate to the wider development and engineering community through participation in development guilds for knowledge sharing and learning.
What’s in it for me?
You’ll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for over 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together. So, we’ll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You’ll also keep learning to grow your career, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure. Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.
What do I need?
To be successful in this role you will have the following skills, experience, education and/or expertise:
Essential :
• 3-7 years of experience and proven results as a full stack developer.
• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role in developing Customer facing enterprise level desktop, mobile applications etc.
• Passion for delivering quality customer experience as well as writing quality and highly performant code for reusability and scalability.
• Sound experience in application architecture design patterns and development practices.
• Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills.
• Knowledge of common development tools i.e. Git, Bitbucket, PowerShell, SonarQube, etc.
• Exposure working with CI/CD tool such as Bamboo, Jenkins/Ansible/GitHub
• Excellent problem solving/troubleshooting skills.
Specific skills/experience:
• Node.js/ React (Redux)
• Javascript.
• SaaS (integrate cloud services)
Desirable:
• An understanding of Test-driven development with frameworks.
• Exposure to testing automation.
• Experience on cloud native technologies will be added advantage.
• Experience working with Agile development methodology using tools such as JIRA, Confluence etc.
What’s it like to work there?
We are a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared ambition to make a difference for our customers, our communities and each other. At Westpac, making a difference means creating impact, unlocking our own and each other’s passions, and transformative success stories to create better futures together.
As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family gives you access to a wide range of employee benefits to help you manage your priorities - whether that means family life, work/life balance, ambition to grow or all the little perks in between.
We’ll empower you to shape your career path. Through personalised upskilling, mentoring, and training opportunities, you’re in control of where you start and how you’ll grow.
As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility – and champions inclusion.
Hear from some of our people and their experiences working with us.
How do I apply?
Start here. Just click on the APPLY or APPLY NOW button.
At Westpac, we’re all about creating a supportive culture and ensuring our workplaces, branches, products, and services are accessible and inclusive for everyone—our customers, employees, and the wider community. If you’re interested in discussing workplace flexibility, please feel free to mention it in your application.
We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, veterans and reservists, and Indigenous Australians to apply. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please email talentacquisition@westpac.com.au.
Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process?
We can provide reasonable adjustments for individuals with disability and/or neurodiversity. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process at any stage, please email talentacquisition@westpac.com.au.
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