Principal Software Engineer

Principal Engineer

• You are a determined engineering leader that loves to lead large and most complex engineering challenges.
• We're building the most advanced cloud-first state-of-the-art solutions in the country.
• Together we can build secure, scalable and highly available platform for millions of Australian customers.

Do work that matters

Engineering the future of banking - We're building tomorrow’s bank today, envisioning new technologies that are still waiting to be invented and reimagining products that support millions of our customers, and help build Australia’s future economy. 

As a Principal Engineer, you will provide overall engineering leadership for the digital platform including software, systems, quality, and site reliability.

See yourself in our team

You are an engineer at heart, and can demonstrate experience with coding, designing, and building business driven payments solutions at scale, velocity, security, performance, and reliability. Design thinking comes naturally to you!

You will come with a proven expertise in Full Stack engineering. You will drive a major set of technical decisions in design and architecture and translate this into pragmatic engineering design decisions.

You'll be part of one of the largest and most dynamic crews in the organization, dedicated to empowering operations teams by automating processes with cutting-edge Generative AI solutions. Our ambitious vision is to evolve towards building Agentic AI capabilities. We place customers at the heart of everything we do, driving innovation to achieve seamless and exceptional outcomes.

We’re interested in hearing from people who are

• Tech leaders who are fully hands-on and have a proven track record of leading and delivering large-scale, complex engineering initiatives
• Cultural advocates of creating an amazing team culture of open communication and collaboration across engineering teams.
• Collaborate with a team of high performing engineers to build and deploy multiple technology solutions that will help in defining current and future states, as well as the roadmap
• Able to set the standards and best practices for high-quality code reviews, while naturally excelling at actively mentoring engineers across teams.
• Able to influence cross-functional teams, articulate trade-offs, and align technical decisions with business objectives
• Adept at driving continuous improvements across the platforms, including reducing build time, increasing deployment frequency, and improving resilience.

Tech Skills

We are seeking a Principal Engineer with solid background in Full Stack Software Engineering. Natural team leaders that love to code and that can influence engineering leadership teams, technical crews, and senior stakeholders with their passion to drive cloud first solutions at scale.

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks, but we do not expect you to know them all. Experience or exposure with these will set you up for success in this team:

• Deep knowledge of architectural patterns, cloud-native solutions on AWS (preferably) or Azure, microservices architecture, solutions integration and containerisation
• Extensive experience with Node.js, React, Python, SQL/NoSQL Databases, reflecting a deep understanding of modern web frameworks and development practices.
• Proven track record in designing and implementing APIs and microservices with a particular focus on integrating Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities.
• Experience in building and deploying secure, scalable, and highly available cloud-native applications, utilizing automated CI/CD pipelines, logging, and monitoring tools.
• Day-to-day or side project experience in one or more of the following technologies or related technologies: Anthropic Claude, Open AI, LiteLLM, Cursor, CodeWhisperer, Crew AI, LangChain, LangGraph.
• Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer science or similar experience

If this sounds like you, apply today!

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

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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