Organization
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Job Title : Staff Software Engineer
Location : Bangalore
Business and Team
The team promotes a culture of continuous learning and ensures everyone is allocated time to learn about the technologies they are passionate about, while also developing through hands-on experience.
Impact and Contribution
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will provide technical strategy and guidance across medium to complex engineering initiatives. You will drive strategic programmes of work, including proof-of-concept development, provide technical consultancy across projects and delivery teams, and establish strong engineering practices and technical direction.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Provide technical strategy and guidance while overseeing medium to complex engineering initiatives.
- Drive strategic programmes of work, including proof-of-concept development.
- Apply a strong understanding of business and technical strategies to deliver the best business outcomes through technical implementation.
- Provide consultancy across projects and delivery teams.
- Lead and champion strategic practice development within the team or platform.
- Follow and promote engineering best practices and industry standards.
- Identify, gain support for and execute strategic direction within areas of technical expertise.
- Take responsibility for nominated technical assets, including roadmaps and technical direction.
- Mentor and upskill engineering teams across different squads.
- Contribute to internal engineering discussions, blog posts and knowledge-base articles.
- Lead complex troubleshooting activities.
- Develop software solutions by analysing information needs, system flows, data usage, work processes and problem areas throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Remain hands-on and passionate about technology.
- Understand business needs and create appropriate technical tools and solutions.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
- Collaborate with teams to brainstorm and create new products.
- Support software engineers through technical advice, coaching and learning opportunities.
- Positively influence solution and engineering design direction.
- Work effectively across Scrum teams, offshore teams and vendors.
- Act professionally and use sound judgement to advance the interests of the company, its customers and staff.
Essential Skills
- Hands-on experience implementing modern and emerging technology stacks.
- Experience building and maintaining development infrastructure and automation frameworks.
- Strong programming and scripting skills, particularly in Java and APIs.
- Good experience with AWS, UI, APIs and Continuous Integration tools.
- Experience with microservices architecture.
- Ability to manage multiple projects in parallel.
- Experience working across Scrum teams, offshore teams and vendors.
- Strong automation and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to manage and guide engineering teams and ensure successful project delivery.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Experience in debugging, code maintenance and root-cause analysis.
- Experience with build-management tools such as Maven, Gradle and Ant.
Enterprise Services Capabilities
- Application Development – Advanced: Creates and documents new and amended technology components from supplied specifications in accordance with agreed standards.
- Architecture Development – Intermediate: Designs and maintains structures to enable and guide the development of an organisation’s future state.
- Business Analysis – Intermediate: Investigates, analyses, reviews and documents business processes to improve sustainability, deliver business benefits and meet business goals.
- Design Development – Advanced: Assesses and designs information systems or solutions that meet defined business needs and align with enterprise and solution architecture standards.
- IT Risk Assessment and Management – Intermediate: Develops or manages controls, approaches and strategies to maintain the integrity, availability and confidentiality of IT systems.
- Service Partner Management – Intermediate: Manages arrangements with vendors and suppliers to ensure the successful delivery of products and services.
- Systems Management – Intermediate: Governs, analyses and changes the infrastructure and resources required to develop, deliver and support IT services and products.
- Testing – Advanced: Plans, designs, manages, executes and reports testing to ensure systems, configurations, packages and services perform as specified.
- Technology Acumen – Advanced: Develops and applies expertise in specific areas of technology, techniques, methods, products or applications.
- Consultancy – Intermediate: Provides advice and recommendations to address customer needs or strategic business issues and supports the implementation of agreed designs.
Education Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or master’s degree in computer science.
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Skills Required
- Hands-on experience implementing modern and emerging technology stacks
- Experience building and maintaining development infrastructure and automation frameworks
- Strong programming and scripting skills, particularly in Java and APIs
- Experience with AWS, UI, APIs, and continuous integration tools
- Experience with microservices architecture
- Ability to manage multiple projects in parallel
- Experience working across Scrum teams, offshore teams, and vendors
- Strong automation and problem-solving capabilities
- Ability to manage and guide engineering teams and ensure successful project delivery
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills
- Experience in debugging, code maintenance, and root-cause analysis
- Experience with Maven, Gradle, and Ant
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or master's degree in computer science
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.
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