Organization:
At CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in other people’s financial wellbeing. Our focus is to help people and businesses move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets, and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organisation, your initiative, talent, ideas, and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can achieve great things.
Job Title: Staff Software Engineer
Location: Bangalore
Business & Team: Corporate Technology
Impact & contribution:
The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in delivering strategic regulatory reporting initiatives, supporting production operations, and driving the integration of our future-state data architecture. This position requires a combination of deep technical expertise, strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, and the ability to lead and mentor offshore engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build and operate cloud-native services, APIs and data products.
- Deliver scalable solutions that support credit risk decisioning.
- Contribute to modern service-domain and event-driven architectures.
- Lead technical design, code reviews and complex problem solving.
- Champion engineering excellence across testing, observability and operational readiness.
- Support modernisation initiatives and migration of legacy platforms.
- Mentor engineers and help strengthen engineering capability across the squad.
Skills & Experience Essential
- Have strong experience building and operating software at scale.
- Bring expertise in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs and microservices.
- Have experience with distributed systems, streaming or event-driven architectures.
- Thrive in a "you build it, you run it" environment.
- Have modernised legacy platforms into cloud-native services.
- Enjoy mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction.
- Are curious about AI-enabled engineering and emerging technologies.
Technical Skills
Engineering: Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Microservices
Cloud & Platforms: AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, Cloud-Native Architecture
Data & Streaming: SQL, NoSQL, Apache Flink, Data Products, Event Streaming
DevOps & CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Artifactory, Kargo
Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, PagerDuty
Education Qualifications:
Bachelors of Engineering or BTech or equivalent graduation
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.
We're aware of some accessibility issues on this site, particularly for screen reader users. We want to make finding your dream job as easy as possible, so if you require additional support please contact HR Direct on 1800 989 696.
Skills Required
- Strong experience building and operating software at scale
- Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs and microservices
- Experience with distributed systems, streaming or event-driven architectures
- Experience modernising legacy platforms into cloud-native services
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes/EKS and cloud-native architecture
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience with Apache Flink, event streaming and data products
- Experience with CI/CD and DevOps tooling (GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Artifactory, Kargo)
- Experience with observability and incident management (Grafana, Prometheus, PagerDuty)
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical design and code reviews
- Bachelor of Engineering, BTech or equivalent graduation
- Curiosity about AI-enabled engineering and emerging technologies
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
