Staff Software Engineer

Organization:

At CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in other people’s financial wellbeing. Our focus is to help people and businesses move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets, and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organisation, your initiative, talent, ideas, and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can achieve great things.

Job Title: Staff Software Engineer

Location: Bangalore

Business & Team: Corporate Technology

Impact & contribution

As a senior engineering leader, you will drive the design, development, and evolution of scalable, resilient, and cloud-native platforms. You will bring strong hands-on expertise in backend engineering and distributed systems while influencing architecture, delivery quality, and engineering best practices across teams.

This role requires deep technical capability in Java, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Kafka, databases, and AWS, along with the ability to solve complex engineering challenges, guide teams, and deliver high-quality outcomes in enterprise environments.

Key responsibilities

- Design, develop, and enhance scalable backend applications using Java, Spring Boot, and Spring Data JPA

- Build and support event-driven and microservices-based architectures using Kafka

- Design and implement resilient distributed systems using patterns such as Circuit Breaker and SAGA / Choreography

- Develop robust and efficient integrations with relational and NoSQL databases

- Write and optimize queries using ANSI SQL

- Design, deploy, and optimize applications running on AWS

- Drive technical design, architecture discussions, and engineering best practices

- Work closely with product managers, architects, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions

- Troubleshoot complex production issues and improve performance, scalability, resilience, and security