Staff Software Engineer
Commonwealth Bank of Australia2 days ago
Sydney, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver complex distributed systems and cloud-native microservices at scale.
- Build and deploy event-driven services, data pipelines, and applications using AWS and related data technologies.
- Own the full delivery cycle, including requirements gathering, documentation, design, development, testing, and release.
- Influence architecture, engineering standards, technical direction, and strategic decisions across the platform.
- Mentor engineers and collaborate with product teams and stakeholders.
- Contribute to triage of production and test environment issues.
- Work across backend, frontend, and integration capabilities.
- Apply automated testing, observability, monitoring, CI/CD, and DevSecOps practices.
Requirements
- Proven experience designing and delivering complex distributed systems at scale.
- Strong hands-on software engineering capability and experience solving challenging technical problems.
- Experience building microservices architectures in cloud-native environments.
- Strong architectural and systems design skills.
- Experience with AWS services and cloud-native application development, including Lambda, MWAA, Step Functions, Apache Iceberg, and Amazon Redshift.
- Experience integrating event-driven services with API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, Apache Kafka or AWS MSK, SNS, and SQS.
- Proficiency in one or more of Python, Java, .NET, TypeScript, or Go.
- Experience developing microservices applications using RESTful APIs, reactive patterns, and batch processing.
- Experience across backend, frontend, and integration capabilities.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and influencing technical decisions.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on engineering delivery.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is highly desirable.
- Banking domain knowledge is desirable.
- Exposure to AI-powered development or operational tooling is desirable.
Benefits
- Inclusive, accessible, and respectful workplace with support and adjustments available.
- Collaborative environment that values innovation, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.
- Applications are welcomed from people of all backgrounds, with a particular commitment to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
- Applications are accepted through Sidekick for existing Commonwealth Bank Group employees.
- Advertising end date: 24/09/2026.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBAmazon RedshiftApache KafkaAWSDockerGoJavaKubernetes.NETNode.jsPythonSnowflakeTypeScript
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is an ASX-listed bank headquartered in Sydney that provides retail, business, and institutional banking, payments, and wealth services across Australia. Its offerings include transaction and savings accounts, home and business lending, cards, merchant services, digital banking, superannuation, and investment platforms such as CommSec. Founded in 1911, the bank serves millions of customers through branches, contact centres, and online channels.