Staff Software Engineer
Commonwealth Bank of Australia10 days ago
Sydney, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable microservices and APIs.
- Contribute to architecture for enterprise-scale platforms and systems.
- Improve engineering standards, code quality, and secure development practices.
- Support integration across internal and external platforms.
- Build and run production systems with observability, reliability, and resilience.
- Contribute to CI/CD, automation, and safe, frequent deployments.
- Mentor engineers and uplift engineering capability across the team.
- Drive pragmatic, high-quality engineering decisions aligned with business outcomes.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on backend engineering capability with APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Experience contributing to or shaping enterprise-scale architecture.
- Understanding of security, reliability, and performance at scale.
- Ability to own complex systems end-to-end and connect technical decisions to business outcomes.
- Collaborative approach, constructive challenge of ideas, and commitment to simplicity, quality, and maintainability.
- Active mentoring experience and willingness to raise engineering standards.
- Strong fundamentals and depth in relevant technologies; experience with all listed technologies is not required.
- Understanding of AI-powered engineering, evaluation-driven development, agentic AI architecture, RAG, autonomous agents, human-in-the-loop systems, LLM gateways, agentic AI products and services, and LLM trace and telemetry management.
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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.