Staff Software Engineer
Commonwealth Bank of Australia23 hours ago
Sydney, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and direction on complex and ambiguous engineering problems.
- Shape technical strategy, architecture, and engineering and product roadmaps.
- Design and deliver complex or high-impact engineering changes hands-on.
- Build and operate secure, resilient, reliable, and business-critical systems.
- Improve engineering practices, reduce technical debt and toil, and introduce better technologies, frameworks, and automation.
- Mentor engineers, including senior engineers, and raise engineering standards across teams.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and broader technology stakeholders.
- Balance delivery, resilience, security, and long-term sustainability in technical decisions.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering experience with Java and Spring Boot, Node.js and TypeScript, or comparable modern engineering stacks.
- Strong experience designing and evolving APIs, services, microservices, and distributed systems, including integration patterns and asynchronous or event-driven architectures.
- Cloud-native engineering experience with AWS or comparable cloud platforms, with exposure to Kubernetes, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Understanding of CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, observability, resilience, and production lifecycle ownership.
- Experience designing, building, and operating secure, resilient, business-critical systems in complex enterprise environments.
- Strong system-design and architectural judgment, including the ability to assess trade-offs, manage risk, and make high-impact changes safely.
- Experience addressing technical debt and engineering toil and improving engineering productivity and maintainability through automation.
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems and influence decisions beyond an immediate team.
- Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and influencing technical and product roadmaps.
- Experience with Tanium or similar enterprise endpoint-management, security, infrastructure, or technology platforms is valuable but not essential.
Benefits
- CommBank is committed to an accessible, inclusive, and respectful workplace and provides support or adjustments when required.
- Applications are welcomed from people of all backgrounds, with a particular commitment to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
- Existing Commonwealth Bank Group employees, including Bankwest and x15ventures employees, must apply through Sidekick using a valid application.
- Accessibility support is available by contacting HR Direct at 1800 989 696.
- Advertising end date: 20/11/2026.
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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.