Job Description

Worker Type:

Permanent

Here at BNZ, it's about more than just banking. We work together in an agile, energising environment to create innovative solutions through our promise "If you can imagine a better future, let's find a way."

We support wellbeing, flexible working and have a generous leave offering. There is the opportunity for growth, learning and career development. No two days are the same.

Ko mātou tēnei | This is Us  

We'reon 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 SeniorFull StackDevelopers to join our Digital Channels team.

Digital Channels builds and maintains BNZ’s Web Customer Channel. We have more than onetūrangaavailable across ourtīma(teams) responsible for International Payments, Card controls, Cardsecurity, Documents/Statements, and the APIs that support them.

This is a permanent,full-timeopportunity 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 withour hiringmanagers, 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:participatein 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 thetīmaculture and environment like?

Join a vibranttīmaof highly skilled professionals united in their passion for innovation and collaboration. Thistīmafosters creative, supportive atmospheres where teamwork and creativity thrive.

Thetīmais a mix of some of our most skilled and experienced senior developers and testers as well as somehighly talentedand driven juniors.It’san excitingchance to learn from the bestand alsobring 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,improvingand 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 toconsider;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 ofsecure and performanttechnology applications.   

• Strong understanding of web development principles.   

• Proven experience with JavaScriptTypeScriptand 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!

This is an exciting opportunity to join us!  We're bold thinkers who are taking brave steps to create a company that people want to work for, and customers want to bank with. If you're ready to join a fun organisation where we are proud of our culture and how we are helping New Zealander's to 'Find their way', then show your interest by submitting your application - we can't wait to read it. 

Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini" - Success is not the work of an individual, but the work of many.”

Closing Date: 26 May 2026

Applications will be reviewed regularly across the advertising period, but we do reserve the right to close applications early.