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Westpac New Zealand

Software Engineer - Front End 12 months contractor

Oceania

August 10, 2026 at 11:07 AM

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Location

  • Auckland, New Zealand

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Java

Frameworks

  • React
  • Angular
  • Redux
  • Redux‑Saga
  • Jest
  • ReactTesting‑Library
  • Selenium

Experience Level

  • 2‑5 years
About Us

At Westpac New Zealand, our purpose is to Help New Zealanders Succeed. As a Bank and one of New Zealand's leading employers, we are passionate about helping people. We are taking action today to create a better future for the people who bank with us, work with us, invest in us or are part of our broader communities.

Mō te tūranga | About the Role

In this rewarding role you will be responsible for innovating, developing, testing, and implementing new software solutions within project and support/maintenance capacities during office hours. You will be expected to quickly master the current framework, and technology stack.

  • Actively engage in requirement analysis discussions and come up with technical solutions.
  • Design and develop new product features with minimum defects.
  • Contribute to component library.
  • Deliver project sprint commitments on time.
  • Participate in Agile software development practices.
  • Create, review, and maintain documentation.
  • Assessing, analysing, and implementing change based on design and request
  • Utilises experience with Jira and Confluence.
  • Promptly respond to production incidents by troubleshooting and providing solutions to them.
  • Release and deployment activities (i.e. logging results, documenting technical activity undertaken)

Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring?

  • 2-5 years substantial web development experience in React, TypeScript, and JavaScript
  • Knowledge across service layer. Affinity with UX/UI and an eye for detail is beneficial.
  • Experience with building a product
  • Products used include but not limited to Java, JavaScript, Angular, Redux, Redux-Saga, SASS, HTML5, Jest, React-Testing-Library, Webpack, Docker, Jenkins, Git & Bitbucket, Selenium, Kubernetes
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines is beneficial.
  • Experience with functional programming