Ko Mātou – About Us

Kia Hanga I Te Ao, E Ora Ai, E Tupu Ai, Te Tangata Me Te Kainga. At ANZ, we're shaping a world where people and communities thrive, driven by a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.

Mō te tūranga - About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of digital banking through innovative Open Banking solutions. Using modern technologies, microservices, APIs, and Agile practices, you'll tackle complex technical challenges, drive solution design, and deliver scalable, customer-focused software that creates meaningful value for our customers.

Banking is changing and we’re changing with it, giving our people great opportunities to try new things, learn and grow. Whatever your role at ANZ, you’ll be building your future, while helping to build ours.

Role Location: Wellington or Auckland

Role Type: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours

Ka aha tō rā e kite ai? - What will your day look like?

The Senior Software Engineer role has broad range of responsibilities. Some of your day-to-day activities may include the below:

• Proactively providing technical leadership as well as being hands-on and willing to get stuck into the team with any tasks, including development, testing, business analysis.
• Dramatically increasing the speed and frequency of tackling technical debt, platform health and feature delivery.
• Contributing to solution design in the Microservices space and provide guidance to the community around best practice.
• Working with Product Owners and Business Analysts and translating business requirements into elegant solution design.
• Working with Lead Engineers and other Senior Software Engineers in uplifting our overall engineering capabilities in the Microservices area, as well as align with our future architecture direction.
• Continuously simplifying and automating our build, test and deployment practices.
• Creating a learning culture as well as sharing your knowledge with the team.
• Providing guidance to other team members, mentoring and coaching of less experienced team members

Whatever the day has in store, you’ll be working with a close-knit team that supports each other and celebrates team wins.

Ōu Pūkenga? - What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:

• A collaborative mindset - communicates openly, embraces ambiguity, adapts to change, and provides hands-on guidance to support team success
• Extensive experience in leading commercial software development with Microservices/API as a Senior Engineer
• Extensive experience in leading Java development at an enterprise level (Java, Spring Boot, Spring)
• Experience with solution architecture, event-driven systems, and scalable API integration
• In depth technical knowledge of database systems (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or Mongo)
• Solid DevOps knowledge including
• Configuring continuous integration, deployment, and delivery tools like Jenkins or Github Actions
• Container-based development using platforms like Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift
• Instrumenting monitoring and logging of applications
• Experience working with Microservices on AWS (EKS)

You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At ANZ a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you.

He aha te take e uru ai koe ki a mātou? - So, why join us?

From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be part of a work whānau striving towards a common purpose: shaping a world where communities thrive.  

But it's not just our customers who'll feel your impact. You'll feel it too. Because at ANZ, you'll have the resources, opportunities, and community you need to take the next big step in your career.  

We're a diverse community at ANZ in different roles, different locations, doing different things. That's why we have a range of flexible working arrangements, so our people can 'make work, work for them'. We also provide a range of benefits including access to wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from ANZ and more.    

At ANZ you'll be part of an organisation where the different backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people are celebrated. That's because we're committed to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand's communities and this is one of the reasons that has inspired us to develop a multi-year Te Ao Māori Strategy called Tākiri-Ā-Rangi. This includes increasing representation of Māori and Pasifika people at ANZ. Join us and get involved in one of our affinity networks which help us to better understand and meet the needs and interests of our increasingly diverse workforce.

Kua wātea te katoa ki te tono. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you are a candidate with an access requirement or disability, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.  

To find out more about working at ANZ visit https://www.anz.co.nz/careers/.You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 120467.

Te Rā Ōtinga - Job Posting End Date

23/08/2026, 11.59pm, (NZ)