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.
We're building tomorrow’s bank today, which means we need creative and diverse engineers to help us redefine what customers expect from a bank. Envisioning new technologies that are still waiting to be invented and reimagining products that support our customers and help build Australia’s future economy.
CommBank is recognised as leading the industry in IT and operations with its world-class platforms and processes, agile IT infrastructure, and innovation in everything from payments to internet banking and mobile apps. Our Software team are the brains behind Australia’s number one banking app, Netbank, Cardless Cash, Comm Sec Pocket and Spend Tracker. We go beyond a passion for web and mobile development, creating reliable APIs at a unique scale in Australia. And you could be a part of that journey.
Impact & Contribution:
The CBA technology unit delivers the best digital banking services to Commonwealth Bank customers and to do so is responsible for digital delivery, group data and analytics, technology and technology infrastructure, cyber, fraud, physical security and business resilience for all divisions across CBA. It is also dedicated to delivering the best workplace technology experience for our over 53.000 people across CBA and focused on providing the latest tools, technology, and resources to enhance the way we work together and empower our people to achieve more for our customers.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the technical evolution of our systems contributing to design, development and deployment of our systems to CBA’s Merchants business customers. You’ll work across the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) and be invited to our regular engineering guilds to broaden your expertise and contribute to the engineering culture at CBA.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Drive strategic programs of work, including proof-of-concept development, and provide technical strategy, governance and guidance across the solution delivery lifecycle.
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- Lead complex engineering initiatives, ensuring solutions are sustainable, aligned with approved frameworks, industry standards, and business and technology strategies.
- Champion engineering excellence through process improvement, strategic practice development, adoption of new tools and technologies, and contribution to internal engineering knowledge.
- Provide technical leadership and consultancy across projects, platforms and delivery teams, including ownership of technical assets, roadmaps and strategic direction within areas of expertise.
- Mentor and upskill engineers across squads, uplift development practices, and lead teams through complex troubleshooting and technical challenges.
- Support the reliable operation of systems, products and platforms, including participation in On-Call rosters and ownership of critical issue resolution when required.
Essential Skills:
We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team:
- 11-14 years of experience delivering Java solutions in complex enterprise environments, ideally within banking or financial services.
- Backend: strong hands-on experience with Java, SpringBoot
- Docker and Kubernetes experience.
- APIs: REST, SOAP, OpenAPI Specs
- Database: PostgreSQL, DyanmoDB (NoSQL)
- Cloud: AWS Mandatory
- DevOps, CI/CD and Full Cycle Engineering: CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, Octopus.
- Leveraging IaC tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
- Observability: Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus/Grafana, Observe, AWS CloudWatch.
- Architecture: Sound knowledge of large-scale distributed systems, Microservices, and Rest API Integration.
- Solid grasp of best practices in application and system security, backed by demonstrated experience in overseeing multitenant environments and addressing associated security challenges. AI & Machine learning and LLM knowledge is desired.
- GenAI tools and Agents – Cline/Roo Code, Cursor, AWS Bedrock. Experience in BIAN architecture – desired
- Frontend (secondary skills): React.js, Next.js
Education Qualification: Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology
If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.
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