Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer

You are collaborative and enjoy solving analytical problems to help our team to reach highest potential. We are a team of big thinkers who are engineering the future of banking. Together we will build tomorrow's bank today, using world-leading technology and innovation.

Do work that matters. CommBank is recognized as leading the industry in IT and operations with its world-class platforms and processes, agile IT infrastructure, and innovation in everything from payments to internet banking and mobile apps. Here, you'll get to turn your passion into reality, working with new technology on state-of-the-art projects to enable a seamless and unrivalled customer experience. Born curious, you're constantly learning and are eager to share the latest tech, insights and ways of working with your team. Honing your craft is something that happens inside and outside of work and you're a passionate and active member of the broader software engineering community.

See yourself in our team. You'll join the Service Management Modernisation (SMM) Program, a strategic initiative driving DevSecOps transformation across the bank. Our mission is to simplify and automate operational processes, empowering service owners and engineers to focus on innovation. You'll work closely with a newly formed squad embedded in SRE Engineering, collaborating with a Product Manager and engineers across business units to solve real-world challenges through automation, data, and AI.

Who you are. The staff software engineer will lead and/or co-lead initiatives to automate and optimise governance control processes across critical IT domains. This role is responsible for execution on the elimination of manual operations and delivering scalable solutions that enhance compliance, efficiency, and resilience.

Responsibilities.

• Assist in design and lead in delivery of scalable AI and traditional solutions, guiding architecture and engineering strategy across cloud platforms.
• Drive modern engineering practices, including platform, prompt, and knowledge engineering, while fostering collaboration across technical and product teams.
• Build and scale GenAI capabilities, overseeing infrastructure for model fine-tuning, deployment, and monitoring.
• Automate and simplify operational processes using data, dashboards, and system integrations or creating new applications to improve efficiency and compliance.
• Champion data governance and quality, ensuring privacy, lineage, observability, and regulatory compliance in all development initiatives.
• Mentor engineering talent and communicate effectively, translating complex technical concepts for senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders.

Tech skills. You will need to be across a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don't expect you to know them all deeply but experience or exposure to some of these will set you up for success in this team:

• Full-cycle development expertise in Python, TypeScript, and/or Golang, with strong experience building scalable microservices and RESTful APIs. Golang is preferred.
• Cloud-native engineering across AWS and Azure, including infrastructure design, platform reliability, and DevSecOps practices like CI/CD, IaC, TDD/BDD.
• Advanced AI/ML capabilities, with deep knowledge of GenAI, LLMs, and frameworks such as LangChain and Semantic Kernel.
• Data engineering proficiency, including distributed processing (Spark, Flink, Beam), data lakes/warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery), and streaming platforms (Kafka, Kinesis).
• Database and testing expertise, covering vector/graph databases and non-deterministic testing approaches for robust data systems.
• Governance and architecture leadership, with experience in metadata management, data cataloging tools (Collibra, Alation), and customer engagement systems.

Working with us. Whether you're passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with CommBank is for you. We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month connecting in our Sydney office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work for you. Here, you'll thrive. You'll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We're hiring engineers from across Australia and have opened technology hubs in Melbourne and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too. If you're ready to take your engineering skills to the next level, apply now and become a part of our exceptional team!