Principal Software Engineer
Commonwealth Bank of Australia2 hours ago
Manhattan, NY, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for the personalisation engine and backend systems.
- Design and build scalable platforms for intelligent signals and real-time personalisation.
- Lead the transition from segment-based to individual-based personalisation models.
- Work hands-on across backend systems, APIs, and data integrations in a high-scale environment.
- Partner with multiple squads on architecture, performance, and delivery alignment.
- Improve engineering standards across testing, observability, and deployment practices.
- Explore new technologies and approaches beyond the current ecosystem.
- Mentor engineers and raise the team’s technical capability.
Requirements
- Deep backend engineering expertise with strong architectural experience.
- Experience delivering large-scale, customer-facing platforms in complex environments.
- Experience with distributed systems, APIs, and event-driven architecture.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive solutions in greenfield or evolving environments.
- Strong learning agility, curiosity, and an innovation mindset.
- Confidence challenging existing thinking and influencing senior stakeholders.
- Ability to work cross-functionally while balancing hands-on engineering with strategic leadership.
- Experience with personalisation, recommendation systems, or customer experience platforms is highly valued but not essential.
- Beneficial exposure to .NET, C#, Node.js, microservices, event-driven systems, real-time data processing, customer behavioural data, signals, decisioning engines, CI/CD, automation, and modern deployment practices.
Benefits
- Diverse, inclusive, and flexible workplace.
- Opportunity to do meaningful engineering work at scale and help shape digital banking experiences for millions of customers.
- Investment in developing engineering leaders who raise the bar across the organisation.
- Accessibility support is available through HR Direct.
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