• Typescript backend development
• AWS mastery (CDK, Lambda, API Gateways, DynamoDb)

Do work that matters 

Engineering the future of banking - We're building tomorrow’s bank today, envisioning new technologies that are still waiting to be invented and reimagining payments products that support millions of our customers, and help build Australia’s future economy.  

See yourself in our team 

We are building tomorrow’s bank of today, which means we need world class Engineers to help us modernise and rebuild our legacy monolithic environment over the coming years. Our Engineering team are the brains behind Australia’s number one banking app, Netbank, Cardless Cash, Comm Sec Pocket and Spend Tracker.

This is a significant opportunity to do help rebuild the craft of Engineering at Commbank as well as influence our culture and do important, impactful Engineering at scale which will make a material difference to our customers, employees and the community in general. If that sounds interesting, we’d like you to be part of the journey.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll be joining a squad within our Real Time Payments crew (domain), working on our highly visibility and market leading product “Payment as a Service” (PaaS). As an experienced Staff Software Engineer, you’ll lead the end-to-end software engineering process, showcasing your forward-thinking solution design skills with hands-on development, deployment, security, and maintenance of the platform that powers our PaaS APIs with DevSecOps principles.

We’re interested in hearing from people who: 

• Have strong coaching and influencing skills that they have used to help large scale teams make big shifts in quality. 
• Have led the design and implementation of holistic software development & quality strategies for complex software systems. 
• Passionate about coding and building industry leading PaaS products and APIs from scratch for complex landscape of Payments services provided by the Bank by using modern tech stack.  
• Experienced in building things from ground-up and can influence the product stakeholders with confidence, while driving the technical roadmap with cross-collaborative crews and teams!  
• Ready to execute state-of-the-art coding practices, driving high quality outcomes to solve core business and minimise risks.  
• Curious design thinkers that break boundaries to solve complex API problems with an Agility focused mindset.  
• Naturally driven to engage, consult, influence, educate and provide technology advice to stakeholders, with an innate ability to coach and mentor team members.  

Tech skills 

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team.

• Directly influence product design, implementation and enhancement to support quality, performance and reliability.
• Strong full-stack background with platform engineering perspective.
• Full SDLC expertise (including business partnering, solution design, DevSecOps).
• AWS mastery (CDK, Lambda, API Gateways, DynamoDb, etc).  
• Strong experience in Typescript in backend development, preferably via Nest.js, SST
• CI/CD tooling - Github Actions, Docker, Kubernetes  
• OpenTelemetry and modern monitoring and logging tools – Splunk, AppDynamics, CloudWatch
• Experience with a wide range of system architectures (microservices, web applications, APIs, message queues / event streams) 

If this sounds like you, apply today!

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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