Principal Software Engineer – Digital Customer Journeys
Commonwealth Bank of Australia27 days ago
Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end engineering outcomes and technical direction across complex customer-facing digital lending platforms.
- Remain hands-on across architecture, design, coding, troubleshooting, and production optimisation.
- Build scalable full-stack experiences using .NET Core, C#, React, Next.js, and API-driven ecosystems.
- Design and operate cloud-native, resilient, observable platforms on AWS using distributed, event-driven, and domain-driven architecture patterns.
- Modernise platforms, reduce technical debt, simplify customer journeys, and improve delivery velocity and business outcomes.
- Champion DevSecOps, CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, automated testing, and modern software delivery practices.
- Influence technical strategy across multiple teams while mentoring senior engineers and collaborating with Product, Design, Business, and technology stakeholders.
- Apply AI-powered software engineering tools and practices to improve developer productivity and software quality.
Requirements
- Proven Principal Engineer or technical leadership experience owning engineering outcomes across complex, customer-facing digital platforms at scale.
- Deep hands-on expertise with modern .NET Core and C# development.
- Strong full-stack capability with React, Next.js, and API-driven ecosystems.
- Experience designing cloud-native AWS solutions using microservices, event-driven architecture, domain-driven design, and distributed systems patterns.
- Experience with resilient and observable platforms, DevSecOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, and modern software delivery practices.
- A track record of platform modernisation, technical debt reduction, customer journey simplification, and improved delivery outcomes.
- Ability to influence technical strategy, mentor senior engineers, and partner effectively with Product, Design, and Business stakeholders.
- Experience with several of the listed frontend, backend, cloud, architecture, containerisation, security, testing, quality, observability, AI tooling, and database technologies.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work on a significant multi-year digital transformation program in Australian banking.
- Work on technology serving millions of customer interactions across NetBank, Mobile Banking, and self-service channels.
- Opportunity to influence digital lending experiences and collaborate with engineers, architects, product specialists, and business leaders.
- Accessibility support is available through HR Direct; the advertising end date is 10/09/2026.
Tech Stack
Apache JMeterAWSC#DatadogDockerGitHub ActionsGrafanaGraphQLKubernetesNext.jsPostgreSQLPostmanPrometheusReactSeleniumSonarQubeTerraform
Categories
About Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Australia’s leading provider of financial services including retail, premium, business and institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, insurance, investment and sharebroking products and services. We are a business with more than 800,000 shareholders and over 52,000 employees. We offer a full range of financial services to help all Australians build and manage their finances. Connect with us, we'd like to hear from you: facebook.com/commonwealthbank twitter.com/commbank youtube.com/commbank youtube.com/commbankbusiness instagram.com/commbank Our Community Guidelines can be found at: https://www.commbank.com.au/support/social-networks.html For information on our Privacy Policy visit https://www.commbank.com.au/support/privacy