Senior Software Engineer

Organization:

At CommBank, we're building tomorrow’s bank today, which means we need creative and diverse engineers to help us redefine what customers expect from a bank. Envisioning new technologies that are waiting to be invented and reimagining products that support our customers and help build Australia’s future economy.

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Location: Bangalore

Business & Team: Retail Technology

Impact & Contribution: We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Full Cycle Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development, testing, and automation, with a passion for DevOps and a systematic approach to solving complex problems. This role requires excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills, experience in leading teams, and a deep understanding of the infrastructure that runs .NET applications

Behavioral Competencies

• Self-driven and proactive: Takes initiative, identifies opportunities for improvement, and delivers outcomes with minimal supervision.

• Comfortable with ambiguity: Able to navigate evolving requirements, make pragmatic decisions with incomplete information, and help shape technical direction.

• Fast learner: Quickly acquires new technologies, tools, and domain knowledge, adapting effectively to changing priorities.

• Curious and inquisitive: Actively seeks to understand how systems work, challenges assumptions, and continuously looks for better ways of solving problems.

• Accountable and outcome-focused: Takes ownership of commitments, follows through on delivery, and is accountable for the quality, reliability, and operational success of solutions.

• Team player: Collaborates effectively across engineering, product, platform, and business teams while contributing to a positive engineering culture.

Essential Skills:

Application Development

• 7+ years of hands on strong experience building modern web applications using React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Node.js.

• Ideally a full-stack engineer with experience developing backend services using C#/.NET Core.

• Strong understanding of RESTful API design, implementation, and integration.

• Experience building scalable, maintainable, and well-tested software.

• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills across distributed systems.

Cloud & DevOps

• Experience working with AWS, particularly (ECS ,Application Load Balancers, Aurora PostgreSQL, CloudWatch ,Lambda

• Experience with Docker and containerised application development.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, particularly GitHub Actions.

• Strong troubleshooting skills using application logs, metrics, and observability platforms such as Observe or similar.

AI Engineering (Highly Regarded)

Exposure to modern AI engineering practices is highly desirable, including:

• AI Agents and agentic workflows

• Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

• Prompt engineering

• AI-assisted software development

• Developer productivity tools powered by AI

Additional Platform Engineering Knowledge (Desirable)

While this role is primarily focused on software engineering, we value engineers who have an interest in platform engineering and are willing to develop operational and infrastructure capabilities as required.

DevSecOps & Security

• Good understanding of DevSecOps practices and secure software delivery.

• Exposure to vulnerability management tools such as Wiz, and Snyk

Platform & Architecture

Understanding of modern cloud platform concepts including:

• High availability architectures

• Resilient and fault-tolerant systems

• Scalability and performance optimisation

• Operational excellence and production support

Education Qualification:

• Bachelor’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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