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-Manyata Tech Park

Business & Team: Institutional Banking & Management Tech

Impact &contribution: As part of our Digital Sales Crew, we are seeking a Staff Full Stack Engineer who is passionate about building AI-powered, agent-driven systems that enhance customer and banker experiences. You will be part of a team delivering intelligent, context-aware digital solutions that drive productivity and improve end-to-end relationship management journeys.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Principal Engineers, AI/Platform architects and SMEs to define and execute the technical vision for agent-enabled systems

• Design, build and operate scalable full-stack applications using Python backend and modern TypeScript frontend frameworks

• Develop AI/agent workflows including tool orchestration, context handling and system integration

• Build and integrate APIs with enterprise systems and external services

• Ensure high-quality engineering through unit, integration and end-to-end testing practices

• Contribute to and evolve development standards, best practices, and reusable components

• Lead CI/CD implementation and manage release pipelines for reliable deployments

• Implement observability, monitoring and alerting for production systems

• Troubleshoot performance, reliability and integration issues across distributed systems

• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure security, compliance and platform alignment

Essential Skills:

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with strong full-stack delivery ownership

• Strong Python backend development experience using FastAPI or similar frameworks

• Experience building AI- and agent-enabled systems, including tool usage, orchestration and API integration

• Proficiency in TypeScript-based frontend development using React or other modern frameworks

• Strong commitment to engineering quality, including unit, integration and end-to-end testing practices

• Experience contributing to development standards, reusable components and engineering best practices

• Experience designing and building agent workflows, including tool integration, context handling, workflow orchestration and system integration

• Strong understanding of LLM integration patterns, evaluation frameworks and AI observability tools

• Keen interest in emerging AI engineering tools

• Hands-on experience using coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cline or equivalent tools

Education Qualification: Bachelor’s degree or master’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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