Principal Software Engineer

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Area, Viveiro, Lugo, Galicia, ESP
In-Office
Senior level
Fintech • Financial Services
The Role
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will lead engineering initiatives, develop enterprise-level solutions, mentor junior engineers, and drive Agile practices within a collaborative team.
Summary Generated by Built In
  • You are collaborative and enjoy solving analytical problems to help our team to reach highest potential

  • We are a team of big thinkers who are engineering the future of banking

  • Together we will build tomorrow’s bank today, using world-leading technology and innovation

Do work that matters

Technology is the enabling force behind information technology functions for the Group to achieve the highest levels of customer experience, security and reliability, velocity, and innovation.  

In Enterprise Transformation Program (ETP) Technology, we provide technology solutions to different lines of businesses across the bank. We are empowering businesses and people to succeed with tomorrow’s technology, our purpose is to become the leading digital business bank, powered by the next horizon of technology.

See yourself in our team

As part of the engineering squad, you will be involved in key strategic initiatives that transform the Business user experience, drive continuous improvement and risk buy-down. You will work closely with the Product Owner and squad to deliver business functionality and experience via significant strategic transformation and change delivery.

We’re interested in hearing from people who

  • 50% hands-on engineering/coding, 40% deep technical design, and 10% leadership

  • Have solid hands-on experience developing APIs, microservices, backend components, data access layers, and some experience in working with frontend developers

  • Proven track record of designing and developing enterprise level solutions that are in production

  • Are knowledgeable and experienced in AI technology in future proofing our build

  • Have experience with the full software development lifecycle and delivery using Agile practices with specific focus on the following concepts: source control, CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure cloud pipelines, logging and monitoring

  • Are knowledgeable coaching junior engineers, sharing their expertise to uplift and improve software development practices

  • Are constantly thinking outside the box and breaking boundaries to solve complex technical problems

  • Pride themselves on their natural drive to educate, communicate and positively influence various stakeholder groups

  • Are ready to execute state-of-the-art coding practices, driving high quality outcomes to solve core business objectives and minimise risks

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 will set you up for success in this team

  • Core Java

  • Expertise with Microservices, Restful API design pattern and solution design

  • Cloud native development - AWS preferred

  • Databases - Oracle, Aurora

  • AI tools in AWS or Azure

  • DevOps and CI/CD – TeamCity, GitHub Copilot or Octopus 

  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus/Grafana, Splunk, AWS Cloudwatch

  • AI & Machine learning and LLM knowledge is desired 

  • Working knowledge of Kafka or SNS/SQS

  • Understanding on DevSecOps environment and landscape, SRE Practices

  • JavaScript frameworks - Angular, React (nice to have)

  • Expertise with Security Engineering principles and implementation (nice to have)

  • Worked with a large data platform (nice to have)

Working with us

Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with us is for you.

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time connecting in our Sydney office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few.

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. We’re looking for people who truly live our values: Care, Courage and Commitment and we’ll offer you great opportunities to develop your career with us.

If this sounds like you, apply now!

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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Top Skills

Ai Tools
Angular
Aurora
AWS
Aws Cloudwatch
Core Java
Github Copilot
Grafana
Kafka
Microservices
Octopus
Oracle
Prometheus
React
Restful Api
Sns
Splunk
Sqs
Teamcity
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The Company
HQ: Sydney, New South Wales
52,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1911

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.

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