Staff Software Engineer / Lead Software Engineer

Commonwealth BankSydneyHybridFull-time2 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer role at CommBank in Sydney, focused on building and modernising platforms that detect and investigate financial crime. Requires strong computer science foundations, hands-on delivery across backend services, APIs and data integration, and full-stack capability with React and TypeScript. The role also involves embedding AI and agentic capabilities into critical investigation workflows.

What you'll do

Design, build and operate production services and APIs with clear contracts and integration boundaries
Contribute to architecture and design decisions, including refactoring, modularisation and performance improvements
Consolidate capabilities onto shared platforms and treat the retirement of legacy technology as core engineering work
Build and maintain continuous integration and delivery pipelines, automated testing and progressive delivery practices
Establish strong reliability and observability through dashboards, alerting, service-level objectives and operational ownership
Engineer secure and dependable AI and agentic features, including orchestration, evaluation and guardrails
Embed security, privacy, reliability and regulatory controls into design and delivery
Raise engineering standards through thoughtful code reviews, pairing and clear technical reasoning

What you need

Must-have

AlgorithmsData StructuresConcurrencySystem DesignBackend ServicesAPIsData IntegrationJava

Nice-to-have

AWSKubernetesDockerGitHub ActionsArgo CDApache KafkaGrafanaPrometheus

Soft skills

CollaborationMentoringCode reviewTechnical judgementOwnershipTechnical reasoning

Financial ServicesSoftware EngineeringStaff EngineerLead EngineerFinancial CrimeFraud TechnologyAICloudSydneyHybrid

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