Design Lead - Online Banking (Hybrid Sydney)

Jrg Recruitment; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing leave

Education assistance

Parental leave

Extra annual leave

Insurance cover

Workplace giving

Other extras

Job summary

Rabobank Australia’s Technology team in the COO Domain seeks a Design Lead for Online Banking. This role combines strong software engineering foundations with hands-on design leadership to translate business requirements into technical designs and guide engineers through delivery.

You’ll partner with Engineering, Product and Architecture to build secure, scalable digital banking solutions, applying API-first, event-driven and cloud-native approaches while focusing on performance, security and a

Qualifications

• Deep software engineering experience and strong technical design capability.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design decisions across Online & Mobile Banking
• Translate business & product requirements into practical high & low-level designs
• Guide engineers on architecture, technology choices, patterns & implementation
• Partner with Product, Engineering & Architecture to assess technical risks, dependencies & cross-squad impacts
• Design solutions using React, Kotlin, Swift, Java Spring Boot, REST APIs & microservices
• Apply API-first, event-driven & cloud-native engineering principles
• Build security, resilience, performance, accessibility & operability into solution designs
• Identify cross-squad dependencies, technical risks & opportunities for reuse
• Review designs, engineering standards, support code reviews & DevOps practices
• Partner with architects while remaining closely connected to engineering delivery
• Coach engineers & influence technical decisions across Client Experience

Skills

Software engineering

System design

React

Kotlin

Swift

Java Spring Boot

REST APIs

Kafka

Cloud & DevOps

Communication

Tools

React

Kotlin

Swift

Java Spring Boot

REST APIs

Kafka

Azure

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Job description

Rabobank Australia’s Technology team in the COO Domain seeks a Design Lead for Online Banking. This role combines strong software engineering foundations with hands-on design leadership to translate business requirements into technical designs and guide engineers through delivery.

You’ll partner with Engineering, Product and Architecture to build secure, scalable digital banking solutions, applying API-first, event-driven and cloud-native approaches while focusing on performance, security and a