Software Engineer - Front End 12 months contractor

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