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Mō te tūranga | About the role
In this key Senior Software Engineer role in the Consumer Lending & Insurance Product Group, you will provide technical expertise working in a community of cross-functional squads, ensuring we build in-line with modern best practices to deliver great value for our customers. This position is a 9-month contract role, offering an exciting opportunity to contribute to impactful projects in a dynamic environment.

We need your help to continue our journey of modernising while ensuring critical business functionality is delivered to our customers. Your experience and knowledge of modern tooling and best practice will be instrumental in helping to maintain our high expectations in quality. As well as your enthusiasm to learn and love of improving in everything you do, whether code refactors or process change or production support.

You are someone that is aware of business, infrastructure, and technical issues to aid in the development and implementation of solutions and anticipate future direction in the tech industry. Your ability to communicate a vision to technical and not-so-technical stakeholders and your ability to listen and adapt to emerging requirements will bring that vision to life.

Solutions architected around microservices, Kafka, monoliths or serverless, your experience in one or more of these technologies will be partnered with an enthusiasm for exploring and learning the others. Existing systems will still need to be supported during this journey, we need someone who can find opportunities for improvement by applying best practice and patterns.

Above all, we believe in simplification and want you to help us drive this, to deliver resilient software faster and more frequently.

Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring?

At least 7+ years full Stack Java including JPA/Hibernate.
Micro-service design, specification, and implementation
RESTful Api design, specification, and implementation
Apache Kafka or similar
Cloud exp AWS and Aure
OpenShift/Kubernetes and Docker or similar orchestration and containerisation
Ideally you will also have knowledge and experience of:
CI/CD and automation.
Security and resilience concerns and patterns
Alerting and observation integrations

Please note, that due to the high volume of applicants and our diligent assessment processes, we may take a few weeks to advise of your application outcome and/or next steps. We would sincerely appreciate your patience in this regard.

Senior Java Developer

Westpac New Zealand

Senior Java Developer

Westpac New Zealand

Auckland

Westpac New Zealand

Senior Java Developer

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