Job Description
Are you an experienced Senior Developer looking to return to work after a career break?
Westpac understands that re‐entering the workforce can be challenging, especially in the fast‐paced world of technology.
That's why we've created the EmpowerUp Tech Returnship Program — designed to support people returning to tech after time away for parenting, travel, caregiving, personal health, or other life priorities.
What we offer:
* A 24‐week structured program with hands‐on experience and dedicated support
* A collaborative cohort model with peers who share similar experiences
* People leaders trained to support flexibility and work‐life balance
Join us at Westpac and take the next step in your tech career. Let's EmPOWERUP together.
What's the role
Are you passionate about building great software, refining engineering practices, and helping others do their best work? We're looking for a Senior Developer to help shape and deliver exceptional developer experiences across Westpac.
You'll join a polyglot engineering team building The Westpac Mesh—a digital platform that enables developers to easily discover, build, deploy, and run future‐ready applications. This includes creating AI‐enabled tooling and agentic workflows that reduce toil, improve productivity, and support high‐quality software delivery. Alongside hands‐on engineering, you'll help set technical direction and mentor others in building great software.
* Building high‐quality software that delights a large internal developer community
* Designing and improving developer platforms, tools, libraries, and build processes
* Developing AI‐enabled developer tooling such as search, summarisation, and copilots, with strong evaluation, observability, security, and guardrails
* Implementing agentic workflows to safely automate repetitive engineering tasks (with human‐in‐the‐loop where required)
* Shaping the technical direction of products and mentoring junior engineers
* Identifying and helping remove technical and delivery impediments
* Contributing to and fostering a vibrant technical community
What do I need
* Extensive experience as a polyglot software engineer
* Strong experience building APIs and microservices in Java, with exposure to Node.js or Python
* Experience integrating AI capabilities into platforms, including agentic patterns, tool use, and workflow orchestration
* Desirable to have an understanding of public cloud platforms (Azure and/or AWS)
* Familiarity with SaaS technologies such as Kafka or MongoDB (desirable)
* Practical experience applying AI/LLMs in production environments (e.g. RAG, prompt/tool design, model integration), including testing and responsible AI practices (desirable)
* Passion for agile engineering practices such as TDD, pair programming, and continuous delivery
Why join us?
We're obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and we're looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we're committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we're already doing that:
* Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
* Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
* Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank.
* Lots of opportunities to 'give back' to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.
Create your future today
We're all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone – no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.
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