Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Principal Software Engineer
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is hiring a Principal Software Engineer in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
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Principal software engineer to design, develop, and deliver scalable enterprise banking applications and solutions.
Organization:
At CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in other people’s financial wellbeing. Our focus is to help people and businesses move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets, and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organisation, your initiative, talent, ideas, and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can achieve great things.
Job Title: Principal Software Engineer
Location: Bangalore-Manyata Tech Park
Business & Team:
We have a vision of becoming the leading business bank, powered by the next horizon of technology.
We’re delivering on this by working hand-in-hand with our business colleagues to jointly solve problems with customer centricity and technical innovation, cultivating a world-class team of empowered people, and building technology solutions for the future.
You will be working as a part of Business Banking to achieve their strategic objectives through planning, prioritising, delivering and supporting projects and initiatives. Your team’s success will be realised through partnering with business and IT teams across business domain and Technology to deliver beautiful experiences and exceptional capabilities to our branch applications
Our solutions are relied upon and trusted by millions of Australians everyday, so we put a great deal of emphasis on reliability, performance, security and ease of use.
Impact & Contribution:
Apply advanced technical knowledge to deliver key strategic solutions which addresses business problems.
You will contribute to building a brighter future for our customers by ensuring that our team builds the best solutions possible using modern development practices that ensure both functional and non-functional needs are met.
If you have a history of building a culture of empowerment and know what it takes to be a force multiplier within a large organization, then you’re the kind of person we are looking for.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Analyse systems and applications and provide recommendations for enhancement and development
Contribute to the technical design of system enhancements
Software development and quality control of software developed by geographically disperse team
Work within in a team environment and provide assistance in the management and leadership of your team and complete associated tasks
Follow release and change processes in the compilation and distribution of software builds and releases to development and test environments, as well as system updates into production
Troubleshoot complex deployment and environment issues.
Assist with preparation and documentation of deployment and configuration scripts for development, test and production environments
Essential Skills:
16+ years of relevant hands on work experience in software development.
Experience in creating high level solution architecture flows.
Experience in BIAN architecture
Experience in Microservices Architecture
Experience in developing technical solutions using: .NET Core, React JS, Typescript, Next.js, Node.js, Python
REST, GraphQL and API Development Experience
Source control systems such as Github
Build & Deployment tools such as Github Actions
Database such as Oracle, PostgresSQL , AWS Aurora
Extensive experience in Cloud platforms such as AWS.
Experience in TDD
Awareness or Experience of Monitoring tools such as Observe, Prometheus, Grafana
Well versed in AI Powered Engineering tools like Cline, GitHub Copilot
Awareness or Experience in DevOps or DevSecOps
Experience in Secure Coding Practices
Education Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology
If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.
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