Staff Software Engineer

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: Corporate Technology

Impact & contribution:

The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in delivering strategic regulatory reporting initiatives, supporting production operations, and driving the integration of our future-state data architecture. This position requires a combination of deep technical expertise, strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, and the ability to lead and mentor offshore engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate cloud-native services, APIs and data products.
• Deliver scalable solutions that support credit risk decisioning.
• Contribute to modern service-domain and event-driven architectures.
• Lead technical design, code reviews and complex problem solving.
• Champion engineering excellence across testing, observability and operational readiness.
• Support modernisation initiatives and migration of legacy platforms.
• Mentor engineers and help strengthen engineering capability across the squad.

Skills & Experience Essential

• Have strong experience building and operating software at scale.
• Bring expertise in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs and microservices.
• Have experience with distributed systems, streaming or event-driven architectures.
• Thrive in a "you build it, you run it" environment.
• Have modernised legacy platforms into cloud-native services.
• Enjoy mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction.
• Are curious about AI-enabled engineering and emerging technologies.

Technical Skills
Engineering: Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Microservices
Cloud & Platforms: AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, Cloud-Native Architecture
Data & Streaming: SQL, NoSQL, Apache Flink, Data Products, Event Streaming
DevOps & CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Artifactory, Kargo
Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, PagerDuty

Education Qualifications:

Bachelors of Engineering or BTech or equivalent graduation

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