Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Staff Software Engineer
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is hiring a Staff Software Engineer in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
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- Level rates this software engineer role Uses AI ●●○○: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include Cloud Services, software engineering and cloud.
- Level classifies it as a senior role.
- Level lists 204 other open roles at Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
- The role was posted within the past two weeks.
AI in this role
Build software solutions and experiment with emerging AI-assisted engineering tools in a business banking technology team.
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: Staff Software Engineer
Location: Bangalore
Business & Team:
Business Banking Technology executes the Technology Strategy across Business Banking through the world-leading application of technology and operations. We partner closely with the business to solve real-world problems using data and AI-driven insights, resilient platforms and modern engineering practices, delivering customer value at speed and scale.
You'll join a growing engineering organisation responsible for critical capabilities including:
- Customer and colleague digital experiences
- CRM and banker platform capabilities
- Data-driven insights and decisioning services
- AI-enabled customer engagement experiences
- Shared platform services supporting Business Banking journeys
Impact & Contribution:
Apply core concepts, technology, and domain expertise to effectively develop software solutions to meet business needs. You will contribute to the financial well-being of 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:
- Collaborating with the team to tackle complex technical problems, contributing to design and implementation to ensure quality engineering outcomes
- Translating requirements into engineering solutions, assisting in breaking down work and creating clarity for team members
- Experimenting with emerging AI assisted engineering tools and cloud services, providing feedback and insights from real world testing
- Delivering robust and reusable solutions that integrate seamlessly into other teams’ workflows and products
- Contributing to architectural discussions and propose improvements, role modelling standards and best practices
- Actively participating in code reviews, maintain high quality code bases and assist in documentation for knowledge sharing
- Work on cross-functional projects, ensuring alignment and addressing inter-dependencies
- Coaching and mentoring junior members in the team
Essential Skills:
- 11+ years of software development experience
- Python, Java, .NET, TypeScript, Go or similar modern software development languages
- Designing and building APIs, services and distributed systems
- Microservices and event-driven architectures
- Proficiency in React.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 / SCSS
- Strong experience with OOP, Micro Frontends, Component-driven architecture, API integration patterns, Event-driven architectures.
- Modern application design patterns including Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
- Experience working across backend, frontend and integration capabilities
- Safe and effective use of AI-powered engineering tools to improve development productivity and quality
- Cloud & Platform: AWS(mandatory), Kubernetes, Docker, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation)
- Engineering Excellence: CI/CD pipelines, Automated testing, Observability and monitoring, DevSecOps practices, Agile software delivery
Education Qualification: 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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Staff Software Engineer at Commonwealth Bank of Australia rates 45 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
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- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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- $167k
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