1 day ago
Sydney, AustraliaSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead complex squad-level engineering outcomes through hands-on implementation, design judgment, and technical influence.
- Clarify ambiguous problems, identify constraints, sequence work, and make proportionate, reversible trade-offs.
- Design and improve services, interfaces, data contracts, distributed systems, production visibility, deployment, rollback, and recovery.
- Implement high-value changes and remain accountable for production outcomes, resilience, security, accessibility, operability, and sustainability.
- Review technical changes, including AI-generated designs and code, and explain what should be accepted, changed, or rejected.
- Diagnose imperfect systems, remove unnecessary complexity, and prevent recurring defects, incidents, and operational toil.
- Coach engineers through pairing, code and design reviews, mentoring, documentation, and practical problem-solving.
- Create reusable decisions, patterns, and evidence so squads can operate independently and use shared platforms effectively.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on engineering capability and code-quality judgment in at least one relevant engineering stack.
- Experience delivering and supporting production technology through its full lifecycle.
- Confidence working across service or interface design, data, distributed failure, automated testing, continuous integration and delivery, security, and observability.
- Experience with concerns such as timeouts, retries, backoff, idempotency, concurrency, consistency, compatibility, migration, and failure recovery, or equivalent domain concerns.
- Ability to create risk-aligned evidence through appropriate unit, integration, component, contract, end-to-end, performance, or resilience testing.
- Experience with production operations including logging, metrics, traces, alerts, dashboards, incident response, recovery, and reducing recurring toil.
- A security-, privacy-, risk-, accessibility-, customer-, and regulatory-aware engineering approach.
- Experience coaching engineers through pairing, reviews, and practical problem-solving.
- Clear, inclusive communication and the ability to explain technical choices to varied audiences.
- Relevant experience in areas such as digital engineering, data and AI engineering, contact centre technology, cloud-native engineering, or regulated and high-availability enterprise environments is useful but not required in every area.
- Ability to use AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly by critically reviewing generated designs and code, validating outputs, and retaining human accountability.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement, with location and working arrangements confirmed for each vacancy.
- Special offers on banking products and discounts from leading brands, including eligible employee-only mortgage rates.
- Flexible work arrangements and leave options including Culture, Lifestyle, and Wellbeing leave.
- Learning and development opportunities to deepen technical skills and grow a career within the bank.
- Opportunities to support the community through Westpac volunteering initiatives.
- Supportive and inclusive workplace with adjustments and alternative formats available during recruitment.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Westpac
Westpac is an Australian banking group that provides retail, business, and institutional banking, payments, and wealth/insurance services to consumers and enterprises. Founded in 1817 and headquartered in Sydney, it operates across Australia and New Zealand under brands including Westpac, St.George, BankSA, Bank of Melbourne, BT Financial Group, and RAMS. Its business model centers on deposit-taking, lending, and financial services fees delivered via branches, digital channels, and partner networks.