Lead Software Engineer, Online Banking (Hybrid)

Rabobank; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Wellbeing leave

Education Assistance Program

Parental leave

Insurance cover

Job summary

Rabobank is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join our Online Banking Squad in Sydney. You will stay close to code while guiding engineering direction across React, Java Spring Boot, REST APIs and microservices to deliver scalable digital banking platforms for Australia and New Zealand.

You will lead design, reviews, coaching, and CI/CD practices, and participate in on-call incidents as needed, with hybrid working options in a modern CBD office environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ software engineering experience, with 2+ years at Senior/Lead level.
• Strong experience with React & Java Spring Boot.
• Experience with REST APIs, microservices, Kafka & event-driven architecture.
• Strong CI/CD, Azure DevOps & cloud deployment experience.
• Knowledge of secure coding, SAST, vulnerability & dependency management.
• Experience using AI coding tools for development, testing & debugging.
• Ability to coach engineers & lead technical delivery without formal people-management responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery across online banking applications, APIs & microservices.
• Translate architecture & business requirements into practical, maintainable engineering solutions.
• Provide technical direction, design & code reviews, and coach engineers across the squad.
• Champion clean code, automated testing, CI/CD & secure engineering practices.
• Work with Azure DevOps pipelines & support deployment & release readiness.
• Design for performance, scalability, security, resilience, accessibility & observability.
• Identify technical debt and opportunities to improve platform reliability.
• Participate in on-call arrangements for priority incidents.

Skills

React

Java Spring Boot

REST APIs

Microservices

CI/CD

Cloud deployment

Secure coding

AI coding tools awareness

Tools

Azure DevOps

Kafka

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Rabobank is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join our Online Banking Squad in Sydney. You will stay close to code while guiding engineering direction across React, Java Spring Boot, REST APIs and microservices to deliver scalable digital banking platforms for Australia and New Zealand.

You will lead design, reviews, coaching, and CI/CD practices, and participate in on-call incidents as needed, with hybrid working options in a modern CBD office environment.