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 - Gen AI
Location: Bangalore
Business & Team:
Business Banking Technology executes the Technology Strategy across Business Banking through the world-leading application of technology and operations. We partner closely with the business to solve real-world problems using data and AI-driven insights, resilient platforms and modern engineering practices, delivering customer value at speed and scale.
You'll join a growing engineering organisation responsible for critical capabilities including:
Customer and colleague digital experiences
CRM and banker platform capabilities
Data-driven insights and decisioning services
AI-enabled customer engagement experiences
Shared platform services supporting Business Banking journeys
Impact & Contribution:
Apply core concepts, technology, and domain expertise to effectively develop software solutions to meet business needs. You will contribute to the financial well-being of our customers by ensuring that our team builds the best solutions possible using modern development practices that ensure both functional and non-functional needs are met. If you have a history of building a culture of empowerment and know what it takes to be a force multiplier within a large organization then you’re the kind of person, we are looking for.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Collaborating with the team to tackle complex technical problems, contributing to design and implementation to ensure quality engineering outcomes
Translating requirements into engineering solutions, assisting in breaking down work and creating clarity for team members
Experimenting with emerging AI assisted engineering tools and cloud services, providing feedback and insights from real world testing
Delivering robust and reusable solutions that integrate seamlessly into other teams’ workflows and products
Contributing to architectural discussions and propose improvements, role modelling standards and best practices
Actively participating in code reviews, maintain high quality code bases and assist in documentation for knowledge sharing
Work on cross-functional projects, ensuring alignment and addressing inter-dependencies
Coaching and mentoring junior members in the team
Essential Skills:
Minimum exp of 11+ yrs extensive experience in designing and implementing scalable, maintainable and reliable software solutions
Working knowledge of AI/ML and Gen AI applications and how they can enhance software engineering processes to improve productivity
Experience building RAGs using LlamaIndex, LangChain, or similar frameworks.
Experience building Agentic AI systems using AutoGen, SemanticKernel, Pydantic, or similar frameworks is preferred
Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, TypeScript or C#) and experience developing microservices architecture on cloud platforms (AWS & Azure)
A keen interest in researching new AI tooling and you are a daily user of AI coding assistants such as Cursor, Continue, GitHub CoPilot, Aider, Cline, etc.
Knowledge of or experience in Anthropic Claude, Llama, LiteLLM, Cursor, windsurf / Codeium, VO Vercel, Continue, Aider, Cline, Langchain, Langgraph, Hugging Face will be highly desirable
Strong technical leadership skills and ability to collaborate with stakeholders to solve business-critical problems
Education Qualification: Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology
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
- 12+ years experience designing and implementing scalable, maintainable, reliable software solutions
- Working knowledge of AI/ML and Generative AI applications to enhance engineering productivity
- Experience building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems using LlamaIndex, LangChain, or similar frameworks
- Experience building agentic AI systems using AutoGen, SemanticKernel, Pydantic, or similar frameworks
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages (Python, TypeScript, or C#)
- Experience developing microservices architecture on cloud platforms (AWS and Azure)
- Daily use and practical experience with AI coding assistants (Cursor, Continue, GitHub Copilot, Aider, Cline, etc.)
- Knowledge or experience with LLM/GenAI tools (Anthropic Claude, Llama, LiteLLM, Langgraph, Hugging Face, Codeium, Vercel, etc.)
- Strong technical leadership skills and ability to collaborate with stakeholders to solve business-critical problems
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Information Technology
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.
