Create your best future and join Westpac as a Senior Technical Lead
What's the role?
As a Senior Technical Lead, you'll play a key role in building and evolving Westpac's next‐generation Digital Banker platform, used daily by frontline teams across sales and servicing. You'll work as part of cross‐functional squads within Consumer Technology, contributing to a major simplification program focused on improving staff experience, customer outcomes, and system reliability.
This is a permanent role based in Sydney (Barangaroo) or Gold Coast (Surfers Paradise), with flexible working arrangements available. You'll be hands‐on, collaborative, and passionate about building well‐designed, scalable software that makes a real difference.
What do I need?
* Strong experience building full stack applications, ideally customer or staff‐facing platforms at enterprise scale
* Solid capability across modern JavaScript frameworks and backend services, with a focus on clean, maintainable code
* Experience designing and consuming APIs, and working within CI/CD pipelines
* A quality‐first mindset, including testing, security, and performance considerations
* A collaborative approach, with the confidence to mentor others and contribute to a strong engineering culture
* 4+ years of professional experience in software development.
* Strong proficiency in back-end development with Java (17/18+) and the Spring Boot framework.
* Solid understanding and hands-on experience with microservice architecture and design patterns.
* Proven experience in front-end development with TypeScript and at least one modern JavaScript framework (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js).
Why join us?
We're obsessed with becoming our customers' number one banking partner for life, and we're equally committed to making Westpac a great place to build your career. When you join us, you'll enjoy:
* Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee‐only mortgage rates
* Flexible work arrangements to support work and life, plus a range of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave
* Tailored learning and development opportunities to help you grow your career within the bank
* Opportunities to give back to the community through volunteering initiatives supported by Westpac
Create your future today
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