Staff Software Engineer

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: Bengaluru
 

Business & Team: Corporate Technology

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:

You will be expected to perform the following tasks and responsibilities in a manner consistent with CBA's Values and People Capabilities.

• You’ll be joining a high‑expectation environment where engineering excellence directly influences customer outcomes. You’ll work closely with the Engineering Chapter Lead, Product Owners, designers and engineers across multiple Complaints Transformation squads.

• Our stack centres on full‑stack .net Core, NextJS and AWS, and we’re increasingly embracing AI‑native engineering practices. Your leadership will help shape patterns, improve consistency, and accelerate delivery across the crew.

• This role suits someone who thrives in ambiguity, works independently when needed, and enjoys guiding others through clear thinking, modern patterns and thoughtful use of AI.

• Staff Software Engineer will work with our chapter lead, crew tech lead and/or other solution/ enterprise architectures and will be working in a team.

• Focusing on the design and overall solution for development and deployment to our cloud infrastructure.

• Will optimize solutions to simplify our technology landscape. Solve complex, technical challenges so crews can focus on business outcomes.

• Utilise strong understanding of core business and technical strategies to deliver best business outcomes.

• Promote best engineering principles and practices into project work

• Continually learning modern technology best practices and bring them back to the group. Go above and beyond in improving quality and performance in the delivery of efficient, reliable and maintainable application and solutions that meet design and requirements specifications for technology projects.

• Adhere to the Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct sets the standards of behaviour, actions and decisions we expect from our people.

Essential Skills:

• 10+ years of experience into .NET Core, REST APIs, Microservices, streaming platforms like Kafka.

• Lead engineering design, architecture and hands‑on delivery across Complaints Transformation systems.

• HTML5, CSS and Javascript. Also, strong in one of the JS frameworks – React, NextJS. Preferably NextJS.

• Excellent knowledge of OOPS concepts and design patterns, SOLID principles.

• Strong in any of Cloud providers. Preferably AWS or Azure. Architect, deploy and operate secure, scalable AWS workloads (Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, IAM)

• CI/CD: Build and improve CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and AWS‑native tooling. Proficient knowledge of Dockers and Kubernetes.

• Strong knowledge with splunk or any observability tools and performance tooling like AppDynamics.

• Either of the relational databases like MSSQL / Oracle. Also, any No-SQL database like MongoDB etc. 

• - Plan work with AI, create structured prompts, and critically review AI‑generated code

  - Help uplift the crew’s capability by demonstrating where AI adds value, where it needs guardrails and how to incorporate it effectively

  - Support a shift towards engineering focused on orchestration, analysis, review and architecture rather than repetitive manual coding
   

  People Skills

• Proven experience to establish rapport, engage and maintain working relationships with internal & external stakeholders, service providers and peers across multiple disciplines and seniority in an Agile environment

• Proven experience to be able to collaborate and work with product owner, engineers, analysts and other people in the squad to identify risks early and help fix bugs improving quality of the product

• Established confidence to challenge senior members of the team and stakeholders, regardless of disciplines, when required

• Have a positive CAN DO attitude

• Strong collaboration and influencing skills in leading continuous improvements initiatives in engineering as well api development activities

• Strong customer focus with demonstrable experience in applying technical expertise and problem solving to meet customer needs

• Possess qualities of a mentor who can technically guide engineers.

• Establish, refine and maintain scalable, secure and modern engineering patterns.

• Support multiple squads by unblocking technical problems and providing clear direction

• Strong experience in design and overall solution for multiple enterprise level projects.

• Good to have knowledge in AI
  Use AI tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, RooCode, etc.) daily to accelerate coding, testing, documentation and design

 Educational Qualifications: B.Tech and above