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Do work that matters
As a Staff Software Engineer role at the core of Consumer Finance, you will help build, simplify and modernise the products, processes and infrastructure that underpin CBAs cards offering. You will work on critical capabilities such as credit card Netbank next and commsee 2.0, transforming the whole user experience and cards journey. You’ll design and build scalable applications on AWS, while delivering modern and intuitive front end using TypeScript and Next.js, including emerging AI-powered experiences.
This role goes beyond hands-on delivery into technical leadership and strategic influence. You’ll help shape the engineering roadmap, drive technical uplift across squads, and raise standards in cloud-native design, full‑stack engineering and modern development practices. Partnering closely with senior and executive leaders, you’ll turn strategy into outcomes while mentoring engineers and contractors, and growing capability across the crew. The work is fast paced, highly collaborative and constantly evolving, with real customer impact at scale. If you’re motivated by solving complex problems and building technology people rely on daily, this is a role where your expertise truly matters.
See yourself in our team
The Consumer Cards Transformation crew is a tight‑knit, highly technical group within CBA’s broader Consumer Finance Domain, focused on building and evolving our Consumer card products and overall platform. This chapter owns critical card platforms and underlying BIAN based service domain APIs, that process millions of transactions every day, operating at scale, under constant demand and with zero tolerance for failure. The team works end‑to‑end across modern, cloud‑based systems, covering card authorisation, clearing, cards administration and operation and cards inquiry, ensuring customers can use their cards for their day-to-day needs.
We’re interested in hearing from people who
Operate as a Staff Software Engineer (Full Stack) with full‑cycle, end‑to‑end ownership across design, build, run and optimisation with a "build and own it” attitude
Act as a technical SME and engineering leader, shaping long‑term technical strategy while remaining deeply hands‑on
Design, build and operate robust, scalable, cloud‑native solutions using Next.js, Typescript, GraphQL, .NET, C#, AWS
Influence and evolve platform architecture, including microservices, event‑driven integrations and cloud‑native deployment patterns
Champion engineering standards and best practices across software engineering processes
Lead high‑quality delivery through CI/CD, test automation, observability and strong DevSecOps practices
Bring a strong AI enablement mindset, with hands‑on exposure to AI‑assisted tooling and a clear drive to continuously upskill
Apply AI‑assisted development and emerging agentic patterns to lift developer productivity and improve system design
Tech skills
We don't expect you to know everything, but experience in several of the following areas will set you up for success:
Front End: Hands on Next.js (must have), typescript
Back End: C#, .NET, PostgreSQL or other relational databases, REST APIs
API Design & Integration: RESTful APIs, OpenAPI, API versioning, contract‑first design, API design patterns
Cloud‑Native & Microservices: AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, S3 and RDS, microservices architecture, event‑driven systems
Quality Engineering & Testing: Integration testing, contract testing, non-functional testing, API testing, test automation frameworks, Playwright
DevSecOps & Automation: GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Vulnerability management and remediation, secrets management
Observability & Reliability: CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, metrics, logging, alerting and production support
AI Enablement & Assisted Engineering: LLMs, prompt and context engineering, AI coding assistants, MCP, RAG fundamentals, agentic AI concepts, agent orchestration
Working with us
We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time connecting in our Sydney or Melbourne 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.
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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Skills Required
- Proven experience as a Staff Software Engineer or equivalent full‑stack technical lead with end‑to‑end ownership
- Hands‑on Next.js (must have)
- TypeScript
- C#
- .NET
- GraphQL
- PostgreSQL or other relational databases
- Design and implement RESTful APIs, OpenAPI, API versioning and contract‑first design
- Design and operate cloud‑native microservices and event‑driven architectures
- AWS experience (ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS)
- CI/CD and automation (GitHub Actions, test automation frameworks)
- Infrastructure as Code
- Integration testing, contract testing and API testing
- Experience with Playwright or similar end‑to‑end testing tools
- DevSecOps practices including vulnerability management and secrets management
- Observability and reliability (CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, metrics, logging, alerting)
- Production support and on‑call experience for high‑throughput systems
- Technical leadership: shaping architecture, mentoring engineers, driving standards
- AI enablement: hands‑on exposure to LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, AI coding assistants and agentic AI concepts
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.
