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Commonwealth Bank

Staff Software Engineer

Melbourne, VIC - 357 Collins Street · Posted 18 May 2026

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  • You are collaborative and enjoy solving analytical problems to help our team to reach highest potential

  • We are a team of big thinkers who are engineering the future of banking

  • Together we will build tomorrow’s bank today, using world-leading technology and innovation

Do work that matters

Technology is the enabling force behind information technology functions for the Group to achieve the highest levels of customer experience, security and reliability, velocity, and innovation.  

In Business Banking (BB) Technology, we provide technology solutions to Business Banking domains across Business Banking and CommSec. We are empowering businesses and people to succeed with tomorrow’s technology, our purpose is to become the leading digital business bank, powered by the next horizon of technology.

See yourself in our team

As part of the Commercial Lending Squad, within the Banker Assisted Lending Crew, you will be involved in key strategic initiatives that transform the Commercial Lending user experience, drive continuous improvement and risk buy-down. You will work closely with the Product Owner and squad to deliver Commercial lending functionality and experience via minor enhancements as well as significant strategic transformation and change delivery.

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

  • Have solid hands-on experience developing APIs, microservices, backend components, data access layers, and driving innovative process improvements that add significant business value

  • Are passionate designing, developing and deploying high quality software solutions as you are shaping the technical evolution of this system by contributing to end-to-end design, implementation

  • Have experience with the full software development lifecycle and delivery using Agile practices with specific focus on the following concepts: source control, CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure cloud pipelines, logging and monitoring

  • Are ready to execute state-of-the-art coding practices, driving high quality outcomes to solve core business objectives and minimise risks

  • Are constantly collaborating with stakeholders to understand business requirements and contributing to the design

  • Leverage AI tools like Claude Code and Roo/Cline to augment engineering workflows and accelerate delivery

  • Champions technical excellence through active mentoring, empowering engineers to grow and lead with confidence

  • Pride themselves on their natural drive to educate, communicate and positively influence various stakeholder groups

  • Have solid hands-on experience in the banking domain will be advantageous

  • Are constantly thinking outside the box and breaking boundaries to solve complex technical problems

  • Have solid hands- experience with Cloud native development in AWS

  • Are knowledgeable coaching junior engineers, sharing their expertise to uplift and improve software development practices

Tech Skills

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these will set you up for success in this team:

  • C# or Java or Golang

  • ReactJs, NextJs, Angular

  • NodeJS, NestJS, ExpressJS, TypeScript

  • Event driven architecture leveraging Kafka or Kinesis or SNS/SQS or Eventbridge

  • Expertise with Microservices, Restful API design pattern and solution design

  • Databases - Relational database like Postgres or MySql and NSQL databases like DyanmoDB or MongoDB

  • DevOps and CI/CD - Github Actions or Buildkite or Octopus

  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus/Grafana, Splunk, AWS Cloudwatch

  • AI & Machine learning and LLM knowledge is desired 

  • Expertise with Security Engineering principles and implementation

  • Cloud native development - AWS preferred

  • AWS Cloud –Certification

  • Understanding on DevSecOps environment and landscape, SRE Practices

Working with us

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time connecting in our Sydney or Melbourne office.

We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few.

If this sounds like you, apply now!

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