Mō te tūranga | About the role
Join Westpac Mobile on our journey to modernise our apps and deliver an intuitive, beautiful customer experience. As a Senior Mobile Engineer, you'll collaborate closely with the product team to understand requirements, design solutions, and oversee the entire app development lifecycle from design to delivery, including development, quality assurance, and deployment.
Ko tō mahi | What you’ll do
- Engineering Excellence: Work within our engineering teams to develop and deliver mobile application features creating exceptional new digital experiences for our customers that align with the technical roadmap.
- Mentorship: Mentor fellow engineers to enhance their technical skills and improve team capabilities across various mobile technologies.
- Quality Focus: Passionate about delivering high-quality applications by writing clean, maintainable, and testable code that builds in-line with modern best practice.
- Modernisation Advocate: Enhance our modernisation initiatives by improving code development, quality, and DevOps practices for mobile applications, thereby driving business value through technology.
- Quality Assurance: Champion shift left practices for test automation in collaboration with our QE team to ensure a stable and resilient banking experience for our users.
- Team Culture: Support and role model agreed work practices while fostering a positive team culture.
- Team Contribution: Take ownership of end-to-end delivery of features and systems.
Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring?
- You are a cross-functional mobile engineer with hands-on experience building robust applications for iOS (Swift) and a willingness to learn Android (Kotlin) platforms. You have a deep understanding of mobile app design principles, platform-specific patterns, and best practices.
- Proficiency in SwiftUI, UIKit, and ideally Kotlin Multiplatform or React Native, with beneficial experience in Objective-C and Java for legacy support and interoperability.
- Strong grasp of architectural design patterns such as MVVM and MVP, and ability to discuss pros and cons of various architectural styles in detail, with proven experience in building modular, scalable, and maintainable cross-platform systems.
- Solid understanding of quality engineering standards, including mobile automation frameworks and testing tools like XCTest, XCUITest, Espresso, and JUnit.
- Experience with Mobile DevOps tools such as Fastlane, Gradle, Jenkins, and familiarity with cloud-based CI/CD platforms (e.g., GitHub Actions, Bitrise).
- Knowledge of Material Design and Apple Human Interface Guidelines, with a focus on accessibility and inclusive design.
- Deep understanding of concurrency models including GCD, Operation Queue, coroutines, and structured concurrency across platforms.
- Experience conducting code reviews, driving technical excellence, and mentoring junior developers across both iOS and Android teams.
- Proven ability to collaborate in cross-functional teams, contributing to complex systems with a strong customer-centric mindset.
Westpac Hei Wāhi Mahi | Working at Westpac
In addition to immersing yourself in a supportive team environment, you'll receive some great job perks and benefits including:
- 4 weeks standard holiday + 5 additional days of wellbeing leave to support you to be your best
- Additional purchased leave options up to 4 weeks per year
- Banking benefits, insurance discounts and superannuation scheme
- Growth and development – we provide opportunities for development and promote internal mobility
- Recognition - we recognise and reward our star performers
- School holiday subsidy - help you balance work and family during school holiday
- 2 Volunteer days per year
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.
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:
5 September 2025
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