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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 lists 200 other open roles at Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
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Organization:
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is the largest and number one bank in Australia, serving over 17 million customers. We maintain a high-trust brand reputation built on financial strength, innovation, and community impact. As of July 2025, CBA holds market cap of approximately USD 195.7 billion, ranking us among the top 100 most valuable companies globally. Our leadership in digital banking, customer safety, and responsible AI reflects our commitment to building a brighter future for all. Our values are reflected in our high-trust brand reputation. CBA is consistently ranked among Australia’s most valuable and trusted brands.

Job Title: Staff Software Engineer
Location: Bangalore - Manyata Tech Park

Business & Team: Retail Tech

Impact & Contribution:

Utilise advanced expertise and a broad range of concepts, technology and domain knowledge to develop and deliver world class 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 organisation then you’re the kind of person we are looking for.

Develop and deploy high quality software solutions with comprehensive test coverage without supervision.


Roles and Responsibilities :

  • Analyse business objectives and identify functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Design and implement technical solutions for functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Provide accurate estimates for the development effort for new features.
  • Continuously improve and improvise to find the best solutions for business
  • Provide mentoring and technical assistance to other members of the team.
  • Work well with different team members whilst practicing knowledge sharing and T-shaping
  • Apply and promote industry best patterns and practices with focus on test automation.
  • Take ownership of initiatives and assets and follow up to provide highest quality of customer service
  • Contribute to the strategic engineering goals within own team / platform

Essential Skills:

  • Experience: Minimum 12+ years of industry experience as a full-stack engineer.
  • Development Methodologies: .NET Core/.Net 6/.Net 8, REST APIs, Microservices, experience on .NET is mandatory, streaming platforms like Kafka is good to have as well.
  • Test Automation: Proficient on writing Unit test cases/Integration test cases Frontend Technologies: HTML5, CSS and Javascript. Also strong in one of the JS frameworks - either React or NextJs (Desired). AI Tools: Should have strong knowledge with agentic coding tool for code generation like Claude Code, Open Code etc.
  • Programming Languages: Expert in C# with sound knowledge of OOPS concepts and design patterns. CI/CD: Any Git tool for source control. Build tools like TeamCity or Jenkins or GitHub Action and experience with deployment tooling like Octopus or similar.
  • Databases: Either of the relational databases like MSSQL / Oracle.
  • Cloud: Any Cloud offering knowledge is a very strong asset. (Preferred AWS)
    Monitoring: Familiarization with Splunk/Observe or a similar monitoring tool. Any familiarity with performance tooling like AppDynamics is good to have.
    Soft skills: Excellent communication skills. Working experience with Agile methodologies.
  • Open Telemetry: Prometheus, Grafana
    Please extend technical requirements with below mandatory aspects while evaluating profiles and also going forward we will include them in all the appropriate REQs.
    • Exposure to Cloud and hands-on experience working with any of the AWS Services. Hands-on on AWS Lambda, EC2, ECS etc becomes an added advantage.
    • Developer Awareness to DevOps tooling and security practices.


Education/Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology

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How we rate this

Staff Software Engineer at Commonwealth Bank of Australia rates 32 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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