Staff Software Engineer – Payments Technology (Typescript/Nodejs)
*Multiple Roles
*Sydney or Melbourne locations
Build the future of Payments at CommBank
Payments is one of the largest and most critical technology domains at CommBank. Every day, our platforms move billions of dollars securely and reliably for millions of customers across Australia and around the world.
We're growing our Payments Engineering teams and are hiring multiple Staff Software Engineers across several high-impact technology streams. Whether your passion is cloud-native engineering, customer-facing payment experiences, real-time platforms, cards, AI-powered engineering or large-scale distributed systems, you'll have the opportunity to solve complex engineering problems that matter.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll provide technical leadership, influence engineering strategy across squads, mentor engineers, and help build resilient, scalable platforms that power Australia's largest bank.
About the team
Payments Data Services
The Payments Data Crew designs and delivers modern data products, APIs and platforms that power payment experiences across the bank. We provide trusted, high-quality payments data through scalable engineering solutions, enabling better customer outcomes, operational excellence and data-driven decision making.
What you'll do
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will:
Provide technical leadership across squads, setting engineering direction and raising technical standards.
Design, build and evolve secure, scalable and resilient software platforms.
Lead architecture and design decisions for complex distributed systems.
Drive modernisation initiatives using cloud-native and event-driven architectures.
Champion engineering excellence across software quality, testing, observability, security and operational excellence.
Foster a strong DevSecOps culture by owning solutions end-to-end, from design and development through to deployment, production operations and continuous improvement.
Mentor engineers and help grow technical capability across teams.
Partner closely with Product, Architecture, Security and Operations to deliver meaningful customer outcomes.
Drive adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices, reusable platform capabilities and modern software delivery techniques where appropriate.
What we're looking for
We're looking for experienced software engineers who enjoy solving difficult technical problems and influencing engineering beyond their immediate team.
You don't need experience across every technology we use. We're interested in engineers who bring deep expertise in several areas and are excited to learn the rest.
Software Engineering
Experience with several of the following:
Node.js and TypeScript for backend development
Building APIs, microservices and distributed applications
Designing scalable, high-performance backend systems
Cloud & Platform Engineering
Experience with cloud-native engineering and platform technologies such as:
AWS (including services such as EKS, ECS, Lambda, Aurora PostgreSQL, S3 and CloudWatch)
Kubernetes and containerised applications
Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation
CI/CD and modern software delivery practices
Building observable, resilient production systems
Architecture & Distributed Systems
Experience designing and operating modern software platforms including:
Event-driven architectures
Kafka or similar messaging platforms
Microservices and distributed systems
API-first design
Scalability, resilience and performance optimisation
Technical Leadership
You'll ideally bring experience in:
Leading technical direction across multiple teams or initiatives
Architecture and solution design
Coaching and mentoring engineers
Driving engineering standards, quality and best practices
Taking ownership of software across its full lifecycle with a DevSecOps mindset
Collaborating effectively across engineering, product and architecture teams
Experience that will help you succeed
While many of our engineers come from payments or financial services, we're equally interested in engineers from other large-scale, complex technology environments.
Experience in one or more of the following will help you succeed:
Building high-availability, mission-critical platforms
Developing software in regulated or security-sensitive environments
Modernising legacy applications and platforms
Working with cloud-native and distributed architectures
Delivering enterprise-scale software used by millions of customers
If this sounds like you, apply today!
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Skills Required
- Experience developing backend software with Node.js and TypeScript
- Experience building APIs, microservices, and distributed applications
- Experience designing scalable, high-performance backend systems
- Experience with cloud-native engineering and platform technologies
- Experience with AWS services, Kubernetes, containerized applications, and infrastructure as code
- Experience with CI/CD and modern software delivery practices
- Experience building observable and resilient production systems
- Experience designing or operating event-driven architectures and messaging platforms such as Kafka
- Experience with scalability, resilience, performance optimization, and API-first design
- Experience leading technical direction across multiple teams or initiatives
- Experience with architecture and solution design
- Experience coaching and mentoring engineers
- Experience driving engineering standards, quality, and best practices
- Experience owning software across its full lifecycle with a DevSecOps mindset
- Experience collaborating across engineering, product, and architecture teams
- Experience building high-availability, mission-critical platforms
- Experience developing software in regulated or security-sensitive environments
- Experience modernizing legacy applications and platforms
- Experience delivering enterprise-scale software used by millions of customers
- Payments or financial services experience
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.
