Lead Software Engineer
Westpac New Zealand Ltd
Apply to this jobMō te tūranga | About the Role
Provides hands on technical leadership across up to two squads, ensuring high quality delivery, modern engineering practices, and strong collaboration that drives customer focused and strategic outcomes. The role balances deep technical expertise with guiding, enabling, and uplifting the team while continually improving ways of working and engineering excellence across Product & Digital Engineering.
As a Technical Lead in the Engineering team, you will play a pivotal role to collaborate with Engineers, Designers, Architects, Craft Specialists, Principal Engineers, and key stakeholders across the bank to ensure we:
Deliver outstanding experiences for our customers
Provide strategic technical leadership across your technology area, shaping long‑term engineering direction and ensuring decisions support both the business strategy and target architecture
Build solutions aligned with best industry practice
Influence and ensure engineering decisions are aligned with business goals to support the technical roadmap
Identify and advocate for opportunities to drive business value through technology, identifying and leading organisation wide improvements
Shape, champion and comply with internal standards and policies
Minimise and manage technical debt
Support and role model agreed squad work practices while fostering a positive team culture, improving team health and reduction of cognitive load
Create a development community shaping shared behaviours and engineering culture
Shape sprint goals that align with delivery, customer, and strategic outcomes
Be viewed as a subject matter expert
Accountability for operational readiness
This role balances hands-on engineering with leadership responsibilities driving a development community beyond squad level. You’ll spend approximately 50% of your time contributing directly to squad work, and 50% enabling, mentoring, and guiding your team to continuously improve. The exact balance may vary based on squad needs and leadership direction.
Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring?
Experience
Several years relevant experience.
Able to speak about experience within the IT Industry, specialising in one or more of Java, React, Mobile development
Able to speak about experience leading small teams (not necessarily as a line manager)
Experience in Agile Teams, who have had Development and Operations responsibilities
Institutional Banking experience highly desired
Skills and Knowledge
Proficient in modern software development practices and tools
Strong understanding of software architecture and design principles
Experience with cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines
Skilled in unit testing, code reviews, and debugging
Ability to break down complex problems and deliver practical solutions
Ko mātou tēnei | Our Organisation
At Westpac, we’re working together to build a fairer and stronger New Zealand for our people, customers, and communities. For over 160 years we’ve been driven by our purpose to Create Better Futures Together.
What makes us unique are the incredible people we’re lucky enough to have walk through our doors every day. The giant ‘W’ on our building doesn’t just stand for Westpac – it says, double you. We’re a place that values, rewards and recognises individuality. Where you can be your whole self, your true self, and your best self. We’re recognised as a place where talent is developed, where passions are fuelled and where ambitions of all shapes and sizes thrive. And it all starts with you!
Tono mai ināianei! | Apply Now!
Apply today with your CV and Cover Letter.
The people of Aotearoa, New Zealand hail from many cultures and backgrounds. At Westpac New Zealand, we draw on this enormous talent pool to cultivate a team rich in ability and empowered to reach its full potential. Our aim is to be brave challengers, celebrating our differences and relentlessly advocating for our customers. It starts with us – we believe that when we care deeply and do our best for our people, they’ll do their best for our customers. We encourage people from all walks of life to apply, including those who are neurodiverse, have chronic health conditions or disabilities – your attitude and passion are as important to us as your experience, qualifications and capabilities.
Mahi tahi tātou, kaha ake tātou | Together Greater
Applications close:
8 August 2026Summary
Lead technical teams, develop software solutions, and ensure high-quality delivery.
Job title
Lead Software Engineer
Experience level
several years relevant experience
Industry
banking
Location requirements
Westpac on Takutai Square; flexible, on-site preferred
Salary
Not specified
Management role
No
Required skills
Preferred skills
Specializations
Structured locations inferred from the posting.
Unknown location