Senior Developer

Ko mātou tēnei | This is Us

We're on a mission to become New Zealand's best digital bank, dedicated to supporting our colleagues and customers with innovative solutions. Join us to make a real difference in the digital banking landscape!

We have an exciting opportunity for experienced Senior Full Stack Developers to join our Digital Channels team.

Digital Channels builds and maintains BNZ’s Web Customer Channel. We have more than one tūranga available across our tīma (teams) responsible for International Payments, Card controls, Card security, Documents/Statements, and the APIs that support them.

This is a permanent, full-time opportunity based in Auckland or Wellington. This is a hybrid role with three days in the office and two days where you can work flexibly.

Mō te Tūranga | About the Role

We sat down with our hiring managers, and they told us the following about the role:

What are 5 day to day tasks the person in this role will complete?

• Deliver customer-facing improvements end to end: clarify the problem, break work into milestones, implement changes, and release safely.
• Make pragmatic design choices day to day: weigh short-term delivery needs against long-term maintainability, scalability, and operational impact.
• Solve ambiguous problems: shape requirements with product and peers, propose options, and guide trade-offs through to an agreed approach.
• Protect reliability and quality: participate in production support, investigate issues, and follow through with fixes and preventative improvements.
• Lift the team: collaborate closely across disciplines, provide thoughtful code reviews and mentoring, and share knowledge to keep standards high.

What is the tīma culture and environment like?

Join a vibrant tīma of highly skilled professionals united in their passion for innovation and collaboration. This tīma fosters creative, supportive atmospheres where teamwork and creativity thrive.

The tīma is a mix of some of our most skilled and experienced senior developers and testers as well as some highly talented and driven juniors. It’s an exciting chance to learn from the best and also bring your own experience to mentor our up-and-comers!

What projects / work will the candidate be working on now and into the next year?

The work you do will depend on the team you join, supporting capabilities ranging from International Payments, Card Controls, Card Security, and Documents & Statements to Home Lending across mobile and web applications.

Across the year, the focus is a mix of delivering new customer-facing features, improving and modernising existing journeys, and strengthening the reliability and overall quality of the services we run in production.

What is the most exciting thing about this opportunity?

You will have the opportunity to work on projects that affects the life of millions of people in a positive way and be part of a modern department at the bank. We are doing work on current technology, including modernisation of our applications and Artificial Intelligence use.

What is the most challenging thing about this opportunity?

As we have millions of users in our applications, there’s a lot of things to consider; like performance, accessibility, reliability, etc. This is a great opportunity to upskill in the development of heavily used applications.

What technical skills and experience are required for this role?

• Practical experience in development and maintenance of secure and performant technology applications.
• Strong understanding of web development principles.
• Proven experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and React.
• Solid experience in Java and the Spring Boot framework.
• Good knowledge of database technologies and cloud architecture.
• Proven ability to communicate ideas and designs clearly and concisely.

Nau Mai ki te Pēke o Aotearoa | Come to the Bank of New Zealand

Please Note: Applications for this vacancy close on Tuesday 26 May 2026. We review applications as they are received and may close applications early.

We’re growing across multiple levels, including Senior Developer roles. Explore more opportunities on our BNZ Careers website!