Lead Engineer

About the role

Join one of New Zealand’s largest technology shops, where our team is a mix of customer-focused, digital and tech-loving folk, who are passionate about formulating and delivering experiences to our customers to ensure ANZ is known as the bank that helps Kiwis get ahead in their lives. We are cultivating an engineering culture of autonomy, trust and belonging. We are passionate about building the right solution for our customers, who continuously advocate for simplification, efficiency and quality of delivering customer outcomes. If you are keen, come and join ANZ’s Internet Banking platform, showcasing your expertise as an experienced Full Stack Developer in a collaborative delivery portfolio.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an engineering team where you are empowered to help define and build a banking experience that delivers value to our Customers. Come and help us find new and innovative ways to build well-crafted software that is customer centric and relish the opportunity to bring your creativity.

What will your day look like

**In this role you will be based in Auckland and be**:
Proactively providing technical guidance as well as being hands-on and willing to work alongside the team on any tasks, including development, testing, analysis;
Collaborating with product owners and business analysts in translating business requirements into elegant solution design;
Supporting & collaborating the team when making technical decisions;
Contributing to the evolution of Architecture, design, development and best practice based on our technology stack;
contributing to the ongoing improvement of development processes, tools, strategy, and methodology;
providing guidance to other team members, mentoring and coaching of less experienced team members;
Collaborating with Chapter Leads, Lead Engineers and other Lead Developers to uplift our overall engineering capabilities, as well as align with our future architecture direction;
Value cultivating a culture of growth and continuous improvement of your craft, as well as sharing your knowledge with the team.
What will you bring?

As Lead Developer will be responsible for providing sound design, process, technical input and are comfortable guiding others. You are a communicator, solution designer, hands-on developer, and spending your day working alongside team members. You need to be able to communicate complex technical issues and be good at asking hard questions. You’re keen to get involved, embrace diversity of thought, and naturally challenge the status quo.

We are interested in people who enjoy a dynamic, rapidly changing environment, who don’t get attached to a particular technology or practice and importantly who want to drive change in the organisation; who embraces a challenge and enjoys being hands-on; who is tech guru and always keen to deepen their knowledge and learning the latest technology trends; who's knowing that there is more than one way to solving the problem, and willing to challenge their own thinking and others respectfully.

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:
Great communicator. You are happy to work alongside a team where you talk openly and constructively about technical issues.
Enjoy working with a team, are a passionate about solving complex problems, you will be comfortable with the unknowns and strive to understand them, are adaptable to change and provide hands-on guidance to support others success.
You have worked with, implemented, guided key discussions and have a good understanding of micro service architecture, design patterns and what good looks like for best practice.
Collaboration. working in small teams where relationship building is key and foster a culture of continuous improvements in our processes, practices and product.
Provide hands-on guidance on leading practice & principles such as Agile, engineering, automated testing, Continuous and DevOps. Adoption of modern technical practices such as TDD/BDD.
You will have experience working with Rest APIs, development and integration using REST/JSON, Kafka, message queues.
Understand DevOps as a Culture and practice, along with experience on DevOps tools for CI/CD, container based development and observability.
A pragmatic approach with a focus on quality outcomes that are customer centric. Growth Mindset. You are open to mentorship and to mentoring/coaching developers
Uplifting, mentoring and supporting community engagement both whether it is within ANZ or outside.
So, why join us?

Our purpose is to shape a world where people and communities thrive. That’s why we strive to create a balanced, sustainable economy in which everyone can take part and build a better life. By helping people make the most of what they have, we transform ideas, hard work and ambition into reality.

The ANZ values are the foundation of how we work and support our customers.

Integrity - We are honest and fair

Collaboration - W