Senior Software Engineer

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.  

This role sits within Business Banking (BB) Technology, providing technology solutions to Business Banking domains across Business Banking and CommSec.   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 team as a Senior Software Engineer, you will be contributing to building the future of our digital platform while focusing on developing and deploying innovative technology solutions that will enable us to build tomorrow's bank today.

Here, with your full stack (frontend, backend and integration) experience and skills to develop technical solutions in a SaaS and cloud-based environment, building out the core technology and domain knowledge required for the team.

We’re interested in hearing from people who

• Pride themselves in developing high quality software solutions with comprehensive test coverage.

• Are constantly collaborating within the team to apply the principles of design, development, testing, deployment, support, and evaluation

• Are knowledgeable providing technical support and assistance to other non-technical members of the team whilst delivering solutions

• Pride themselves on their ability to build solutions to meet the highest possible quality standards while simultaneously balancing security, performance, availability, and maintainability concerns

• Expertise in writing complex automation scripts, creating frameworks from scratch using Java

• Are actively involved in continuous learning, experimentation, and participate in peer code reviews

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

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 (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team.

• Full stack technologies and coding languages such as: Java, Python, Angular, React, Swift

• Testing Frameworks such as: Selenium, Appium, Playwright, Karate DSL, NUnit, Mocha and/or Jest

• Test Automation across the technical stack: Web, Mobile, API (REST, Graphql) and/or Performance (Gatling, JMeter, K6)

• CI/CD pipelining (we use TeamCity and are moving to GitHub Actions)

• Observability, Reliability, Monitoring and Automation tooling (we are moving towards Prometheus and OpenTelemetry)

• A keen interest in researching new AI tooling and experience in leveraging AI coding assistants such as Cursor, RooCode and Cline

• Cloud (AWS, Azure)

• Knowledge of or experience in implementing AI Agents is highly advantageous

Working with us

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

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month 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. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work for you.

If this sounds like you, apply now!