Staff Software Engineer
Commonwealth Bank of Australia6 hours ago
Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver scalable, resilient, and secure software solutions across the eCommerce payments platform.
- Build and evolve Java-based microservices for merchant onboarding, payment processing, and settlement capabilities.
- Contribute across backend services, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and customer experiences.
- Drive architectural decisions and influence engineering direction across squads.
- Champion automated testing, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and DevSecOps practices.
- Partner with product, architecture, and business stakeholders to deliver customer outcomes.
- Mentor engineers, uplift technical capability, and support production systems and operational improvements.
Requirements
- Deep software engineering expertise and experience designing and delivering complex distributed systems at scale.
- Strong hands-on engineering capability and experience building microservices in cloud-native environments.
- Strong architectural and systems design skills.
- Experience leading complex technical initiatives while remaining hands-on.
- A track record of mentoring engineers and influencing technical decision-making.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on engineering delivery.
- Experience with Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, domain-driven design, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
- Interest in emerging technologies, AI-powered development or operational tooling, and applying AI to engineering and security challenges.
- React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Next.js experience is highly regarded.
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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.