AddressHow will I help?
The Lead Engineer will be part of the Consumer Finance team. Consumer Finance technology team works with the business team in transforming the business vision into reality by planning and delivering the projects along with our strategic partners. Work in a fast-paced and agile environment, contributing to major transformation programs and supporting the Consumer Finance technology core systems.
As a hands-on Lead Engineer, you'll use your skills in building, designing, maintaining, and testing, for the development of our technology used by the Consumer Finance technology team. You will also engage with various stakeholders and become an expert in your domain whilst supporting the broader engineering community.
The ideal candidate will have an extensive background in programming, application design and has Full Stack senior level experience. The candidate must also have strong stakeholder management skills, be able to lead projects and come from a financial services background (ideally within banking cards).
Responsibilities will include:
- Hands-on Lead Engineer who can mentor, guide, and assist a teamto providehigh-quality application services to critical investment banking applications.
- Design, Implement, and maintain micro service (API) using Spring-Boot.
- Write clean, modular, maintainable code using modern JavaScript frameworks and libraries.
- Understanding of end-to-end application performance and optimization techniques and tools.
- Implement responsive designs with reusable and scalable UI components.
- Problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Understanding of accessibility standards and best practices of UI development
- Collaborate with service owners to understand the requirements and translate them into technical user stories.
- Design and develop user interfaces for customer-facing applications using React JS.
What's in it for you?
You'll play an important and significant part in the future of a business that has been around for 200 years and be instrumental in achieving our purpose of helping Australians succeed. So, we'll back you in the development of your career, with internal career prospects and flexible working. You'll also be backed by a fantastic team of people in a can-do, supportive structure.
What do I need?
- Financial services experience
- Excellent analysis and design skills with technical problem-solving
- HTML5, CSS3 & Java Script.
- CI/CD tools i.e. Bit, bitbucket, Jenkins or bamboo.
- React JS, Redux, Node JS.
- Restful API design principles and standards
- API security and authentication mechanisms(OAuth, JWT)
- Spring Boot and Restful API
What's it like to work there?
We aim to provide one big, supportive team to help us achieve our purpose of creating better futures together. As an equal opportunity employer, we're proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility - and champions inclusion.
How do I Apply?
Start here. Just click on the APPLY button.
Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process?
At Westpac we are committed to providing a supportive culture and creating diverse, inclusive, and accessible workplaces, branches, products and services for our customers, employees, and community. This role is open to experienced candidates seeking a discussion around workplace flexibility. We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, 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 call 1800 655 592 Option 2.3 or email talentacquisition@westpac.com.au
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