At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the development of secure, scalable payment platforms and solve complex engineering challenges.
- Company: Join CommBank, Australia's largest bank, known for its innovative tech culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, health benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Be part of a diverse team committed to inclusivity and positive change.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on millions of customers while shaping the future of Payments technology.
- Qualifications: Experience in software engineering, particularly with backend technologies and cloud-native practices.
The predicted salary is between 118800 - 145200 $ per year.
- Staff Software Engineer – Payments Technology
- Sydney or Melbourne location
- Shape the technical direction of secure, scalable payment platforms at Comm Bank.
- Solve complex engineering challenges that positively impact millions of customers.
- Work with modern cloud, API and AI-enabled engineering practices to help shape the future of Payments.
- Do Work That Matters
Payments is one of the largest and most critical technology domains at Comm Bank.
Every day, our platforms move billions of dollars securely and reliably for millions of customers across Australia and around the world.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll provide technical leadership, influence engineering strategy across teams and help build resilient, scalable platforms that power Australia’s largest bank.
You’ll have the opportunity to solve complex engineering challenges, mentor other engineers and help raise engineering standards while shaping the future of our Payments technology.
See yourself in our team
You’ll join the API Customer Experience Squad within the Domestic Payments Crew.
The squad is building end-to-end capabilities that enable customers to self-onboard to Comm Bank’s Payment API products and services.
Our goal is to create a first-class experience where customers can discover services, test integrations and complete onboarding independently, supported by an AI companion.
You’ll work alongside engineers, Product, Architecture, Security and Operations to build secure and reliable customer experiences at scale.
- What you’ll do
- Provide technical leadership across teams, influencing engineering direction, architecture and technical standards.
- Design, build and evolve secure, scalable and resilient software platforms and distributed systems.
- Lead architecture and design decisions and help modernise our platforms using cloud-native and event-driven approaches.
- Champion engineering excellence across software quality, testing, observability, security, resilience and operational excellence.
- Foster a strong Dev Sec Ops culture by taking ownership of solutions from design and development through to deployment, production operations and continuous improvement.
- Mentor engineers, grow technical capability and support the adoption of modern and AI-enabled engineering practices.
- We’re interested in hearing from people who
You’re an experienced software engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, influencing engineering direction and helping teams deliver great technology.
You’ll bring deep expertise across several areas of modern software engineering, together with curiosity and the ability to learn and adapt.
Experience across every technology in our environment isn’t required.
We’re particularly interested in experience across
- Modern software engineering using backend technologies such as Java and Spring Boot, Node. js and Type Script.
- Building APIs, microservices and secure, high-performance distributed applications.
- Cloud-native engineering using AWS, Kubernetes, containerisation and Infrastructure as Code.
- Event-driven architecture and messaging technologies such as Kafka.
- CI/CD, Dev Sec Ops, observability, resilience and owning software throughout its production lifecycle.
- Providing technical leadership, making architectural decisions, mentoring engineers and influencing engineering standards across teams.
- Working with us
At Comm Bank, we’re committed to creating an accessible, inclusive and respectful workplace.
If you require support or adjustments, please let us know.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and we're particularly committed to making a positive difference for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
For support please contact 1800 989 696.
If this opportunity excites you, we’d love to hear from you.
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