Organization:
At CommBank, we're building tomorrow’s bank today, which means we need creative and diverse engineers to help us redefine what customers expect from a bank. Envisioning new technologies that are waiting to be invented and reimagining products that support our customers and help build Australia’s future economy.
Job Title: Staff Software Engineer (AI)
Location: Bangalore
Business & Team: Retail Technology
Impact & Contribution:
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Full Cycle Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development, testing, and automation, with a passion for DevOps and a systematic approach to solving complex problems. This role requires excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills, experience in leading teams, and a deep understanding of the infrastructure that runs .NET applications
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Utilize AI technology to enhance software and platform engineering.
- Develop and work with AI agents to automate and accelerate engineering tasks.
- Apply advanced knowledge of generative AI technologies in software development.
- Craft and evaluate prompts to generate code, integrating AI-generated code with human-written code.
- Choose appropriate AI engines for specific tasks, ensuring alignment with project requirements.
- Drive innovation by exploring new applications of generative AI in software engineering.
- Contribute to strategic decision-making on AI integration and develop best practices for combining human and AI efforts.
- Guide platform and software engineers in adopting AI tools effectively.
- Contribute to open-source projects that automate software development using AI.
- Engage with production systems to debug issues, restore services, and drive reliability improvements.
- Establish governance, guardrails, and quality standards for AI-assisted software development.
- Build and scale production-grade GenAI solutions, including LLMs, RAG, and agentic workflows.
Essential Qualifications:
- Proficiency in Python, TypeScript and Bash scripting.
- Strong understanding of AI technologies and their application in software engineering.
- Familiarity with prompt engineering and generative AI tools.
- Experience in integrating AI-generated code with human-written code.
- Ability to choose and utilize different AI engines based on project needs.
- Demonstrated thought leadership in AI-enhanced software development.
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience with Agile Development Practices, Scrum, and supporting tools like JIRA, Confluence, and GitHub.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience developing and operating scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-native infrastructure.
- Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs and backend services using FastAPI, Flask, or similar Python frameworks.
- Experience with Agent-to-Agent (A2A) architectures, Model Context Protocol (MCP), multi-agent systems, and AI agent orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, PydanticAI, or similar technologies.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS). Exposure to Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore, and cloud-native AI tooling is a plus.
- Knowledge of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automated testing, monitoring, and observability practices.
- Familiarity with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Education Qualification:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology.
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Skills Required
- Proficiency in Python
- Proficiency in TypeScript
- Proficiency in Bash scripting
- Deep understanding of infrastructure that runs .NET applications
- Strong understanding of AI technologies and their application in software engineering
- Familiarity with prompt engineering and generative AI tools
- Experience integrating AI-generated code with human-written code
- Ability to choose and utilize different AI engines based on project needs
- Excellent problem-solving, debugging and troubleshooting skills
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Experience with Agile development practices, Scrum, and tools like JIRA, Confluence, GitHub
- Bachelor's degree in engineering in Computer Science or Information Technology
- Experience developing and operating scalable, reliable, secure cloud-native infrastructure
- Experience building RESTful APIs and backend services using FastAPI, Flask, or similar
- Experience with Agent-to-Agent architectures, MCP, multi-agent systems, LangChain, LangGraph, PydanticAI or similar
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) and exposure to Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore
- Knowledge of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, monitoring and observability
- Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
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.
