• You are a deeply hands-on engineer who thrives on solving complex, enterprise-scale problems.
• We are a team of high-performing engineers transforming how technology is delivered across the bank.
• Together we’re building the platforms and capabilities that power tomorrow’s bank.
Do work that matters
Here, you’ll turn your passion into impact, working on modern platforms and engineering solutions that enable faster, simpler and more scalable outcomes across the organisation.
You’ll contribute to building secure, reliable systems that underpin critical business capabilities, while helping shape how technology supports broader business objectives and drives meaningful results.
By leveraging cloud-native technologies and modern engineering practices, you’ll help create standardised, resilient platforms that enable rapid delivery and continuous improvement.
See yourself in our team
As a Staff Software Engineer in the Digitisation & Enablement Crew, you’ll play a key role in shaping architecture, uplifting engineering standards, and mentoring engineers across the team.
This is a senior, hands-on role. You’ll spend most of your time designing and building production systems, while influencing technical direction and contributing to broader technology strategy.
You’ll operate with high leverage, working across squads to guide how systems are designed, built, and evolved in a modern engineering environment.
What you’ll do
• Design and build scalable microservices and APIs
• Contribute to architecture for enterprise-scale platforms and systems
• Improve engineering standards, code quality, and secure development practices
• Support integration across internal and external platforms
• Build and run what you ship – embedding observability, reliability, and resilience
• Contribute to CI/CD, automation, and safe, frequent deployments
• Mentor engineers and uplift capability across the team
• Drive pragmatic, high-quality engineering decisions aligned to business outcomes
We’re looking for engineers who
• Are genuinely hands-on and comfortable owning complex systems end-to-end
• Have strong backend engineering capability (APIs, microservices, distributed systems)
• Have experience contributing to or shaping enterprise-scale architecture
• Understand security, reliability, and performance at scale
• Can connect technical decisions to business outcomes
• Thrive in collaborative environments and challenge ideas constructively
• Care deeply about simplicity, quality, and long-term maintainability
• Actively mentor others and raise the engineering bar
Technical capability
We use a broad range of technologies. You don’t need all of them — strong fundamentals and depth matter most.
Our ecosystem includes:
Java / Spring Boot / Temporal / AWS Native Services
Cloud & DevOps
• AWS (cloud-native architectures)
• Kubernetes, Docker
• CI/CD (GitHub, Teamcity Octopus)
• Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation)
• Observability and monitoring tools
Data
- AWS Data Services
• Snowflake
- Relational DB - Postgres
• NoSQL / DocumentDB
• Event-driven architecture (e.g. Kafka) is beneficial
AI Powered Engineer
Good Understanding of the AI Powered Engineering
Leveraging AI to accelerate the Product feature builds
Optimisation and Structure of AI Powered Engineering
AI Engineer
Good understanding of Eval Driven Development
Agentic AI Architecture - RAG, Autonomous Agentic, HITL
Understanding of LLM gateways like PortKey
Well rounded understanding of the building Agentic AI Product and Services
LLM Trace and telemetric management - tooling like Honey Hive
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
- Strong backend engineering experience with APIs, microservices, and distributed systems
- Experience designing or shaping enterprise-scale architecture
- Experience owning complex systems end-to-end
- Understanding of security, reliability, and performance at scale
- Experience with cloud-native architectures and AWS
- Experience with CI/CD, automation, and safe deployments
- Ability to mentor engineers and improve engineering capability
- Ability to connect technical decisions to business outcomes
- Experience with Java, Spring Boot, Temporal, or comparable backend technologies
- Understanding of Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure as code using CloudFormation
- Understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL or DocumentDB
- Good understanding of AI-powered engineering
- Understanding of evaluation-driven development and agentic AI architecture, including RAG, autonomous agents, and human-in-the-loop systems
- Understanding of LLM gateways, tracing, and telemetry management
- Experience with event-driven architecture such as Kafka
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.
