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: Principal Software Engineer
Location: Bangalore-Manyata Tech Park
Business & Team:
We have a vision of becoming the leading business bank, powered by the next horizon of technology.
We’re delivering on this by working hand-in-hand with our business colleagues to jointly solve problems with customer centricity and technical innovation, cultivating a world-class team of empowered people, and building technology solutions for the future.
You will be working as a part of Business Banking to achieve their strategic objectives through planning, prioritising, delivering and supporting projects and initiatives. Your team’s success will be realised through partnering with business and IT teams across business domain and Technology to deliver beautiful experiences and exceptional capabilities to our branch applications
Our solutions are relied upon and trusted by millions of Australians everyday, so we put a great deal of emphasis on reliability, performance, security and ease of use.
Impact & Contribution:
Apply advanced technical knowledge to deliver key strategic solutions which addresses business problems.
You will contribute to building a brighter future for 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 organization, then you’re the kind of person we are looking for.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Analyse systems and applications and provide recommendations for enhancement and development
Contribute to the technical design of system enhancements
Software development and quality control of software developed by geographically disperse team
Work within in a team environment and provide assistance in the management and leadership of your team and complete associated tasks
Follow release and change processes in the compilation and distribution of software builds and releases to development and test environments, as well as system updates into production
Troubleshoot complex deployment and environment issues.
Assist with preparation and documentation of deployment and configuration scripts for development, test and production environments
Essential Skills:
16+ years of relevant hands on work experience in software development.
Experience in creating high level solution architecture flows.
Experience in BIAN architecture
Experience in Microservices Architecture
Experience in developing technical solutions using: .NET Core, React JS, Typescript, Next.js, Node.js, Python
REST, GraphQL and API Development Experience
Source control systems such as Github
Build & Deployment tools such as Github Actions
Database such as Oracle, PostgresSQL , AWS Aurora
Extensive experience in Cloud platforms such as AWS.
Experience in TDD
Awareness or Experience of Monitoring tools such as Observe, Prometheus, Grafana
Well versed in AI Powered Engineering tools like Cline, GitHub Copilot
Awareness or Experience in DevOps or DevSecOps
Experience in Secure Coding Practices
Education Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology
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Skills Required
- 16+ years of relevant hands on work experience in software development
- Experience in creating high level solution architecture flows
- Experience in BIAN architecture
- Experience in Microservices Architecture
- .NET Core
- React JS
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- Node.js
- Python
- REST, GraphQL and API Development
- Source control systems such as GitHub
- Build & Deployment tools such as GitHub Actions
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- AWS Aurora
- Extensive experience in AWS cloud platform
- Experience in TDD
- Awareness or experience with monitoring tools such as Observe, Prometheus, Grafana
- Well versed in AI-powered engineering tools like Cline and GitHub Copilot
- Awareness or experience in DevOps or DevSecOps
- Experience in secure coding practices
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Information Technology engineering
Commonwealth Bank Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Commonwealth Bank and has not been reviewed or approved by Commonwealth Bank.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — The bank offers additional Life Leave, the option to purchase up to four extra weeks, pet leave, and paid volunteering leave alongside flexible-working options. Public materials indicate these leave features compare well within Australian banking.
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Parental & Family Support — Permanent employees can access up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave, and superannuation is paid for up to 34 weeks of unpaid parental leave. These provisions extend support for new parents beyond standard settings.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Access includes CBHS Health Fund, Fitness Passport, a 24/7 wellbeing platform with telehealth, an Employee Assistance Program, and employer‑paid income protection for up to two years, alongside staff banking perks and share plans. This combination provides day‑to‑day value across health, protection, and financial perks.
Commonwealth Bank Insights
What We Do
Australia’s leading provider of financial services including retail, premium, business and institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, insurance, investment and sharebroking products and services. We are a business with more than 800,000 shareholders and over 52,000 employees. We offer a full range of financial services to help all Australians build and manage their finances.
