Senior Software Engineer
Commonwealth Bank
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Staff Software Engineer
Commonwealth Bank
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Sydney • 🇦🇺 Australia
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Lead
Tech Stack
AWSCloudGoGrafanaJavaKafkaMicroservicesPrometheusPythonSplunk
About the role
- Shape the future of intelligent product origination for Business Banking digital lending
- Implement BIAN-compliant Customer Offer orchestration to onboard lending products (Corporate Credit Cards, Overdrafts, Better Business Loans, Bank Guarantees)
- Design, develop and deploy APIs, microservices, backend components and data access layers
- Contribute to end-to-end design, implementation and technical evolution of systems
- Execute state-of-the-art coding practices and drive high-quality outcomes to minimise risks
- Collaborate constantly with stakeholders to understand business requirements and contribute to design
- Leverage AI tools to augment engineering workflows and accelerate delivery
- Mentor and coach engineers, championing technical excellence
- Work with DevOps practices including CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure pipelines, logging and monitoring
Requirements
- Solid hands-on experience developing APIs, microservices, backend components, and data access layers
- Experience with full software development lifecycle and Agile practices
- Familiarity with source control, CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure cloud pipelines, logging and monitoring
- Strong coding practices and ability to drive high quality outcomes
- Experience collaborating with stakeholders to understand business requirements and contribute to design
- Experience leveraging AI tools like Claude Code and Roo/Cline to augment engineering workflows
- Experience mentoring and coaching junior engineers
- Banking domain experience advantageous
- Solid hands-on experience with cloud native development in AWS
- Proficiency in programming languages: Python, C#, Java, Golang
- Knowledge of building AI agents using LangGraph or Strands SDK
- Capability to design and implement both agentic and traditional workflows
- Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, Kinesis, SNS/SQS, Eventbridge)
- DevOps and CI/CD tools experience: GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Octopus Deploy
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools: Prometheus/Grafana, Splunk, AWS CloudWatch
- Desired knowledge in Temporal for orchestrating complex workflows
- Expertise in Security Engineering principles and implementation
- Understanding of DevSecOps environments and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices
- AWS Cloud Certification (desired)
Benefits
- Flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time connecting in Sydney or Melbourne office
- Many other flexible working options including changing start and finish times
- Part-time arrangements
- Job share
- Support for accessibility (contact HR Direct for additional support)
- Career support and development opportunities
- Inclusive and respectful workplace culture
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
APIsmicroservicesbackend componentsdata access layersprogramming languages: Pythonprogramming languages: C#programming languages: Javaprogramming languages: Golangevent-driven architecturesSecurity Engineering principles
Soft skills
collaborationmentoringcoachingstakeholder engagementtechnical excellencehigh-quality outcomesunderstanding business requirements
Certifications
AWS Cloud Certification