Senior Software Engineer

Software Engineer

• You are passionate for simplifying and enriching people's work experiences.

• We are a team consisting of visionary thinkers dedicated to shaping the future of banking.

• Together we can develop industry-leading product lifecycles that enhance capabilities, support people, and leverage technology.

Do work that matters

We're building tomorrow’s bank today, which means we need creative and diverse engineers to help us redefine what customers expect from a bank. Envisioning new technologies that are still waiting to be invented and reimagining products that support our customers and help build Australia’s future economy.

See yourself in the team

This role is embedded within the financial crimes domain, where your work will directly contribute to building secure, intelligent systems that detect and prevent illicit activity.

We’re seeking a Senior Full Cycle Software Engineer who brings deep experience across the stack and a passion for building scalable, modern systems. You’ll play a key role in designing and delivering solutions that span multiple platforms and services, with a particular focus on Gen-AI engineering tools and leveraging AWS cloud-native capabilities.

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

• Strong coding experience in an enterprise environment using a contemporary language such as Java, Python or C#, with relevant frameworks to create testable and maintainable code.

• Solid understanding of data design, data querying with SQL, data frameworks, ETL processes, data pipelines, and data optimization.

• Proficient with microservices architecture and integration with RESTful APIs and messaging systems such as Kafka.

• Good knowledge of the full SDLC lifecycle and modern engineering practices, with a strong focus on functional, reliability, security, and debugging.

• Strong DevSecOps mindset with hands-on experience embedding observability tools (e.g. OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana).

• Proven ability to design and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and YAML workflows.

• Familiarity with Generative AI tools and frameworks (e.g., GitHub Copilot, OpenAI APIs, LangChain, or similar) to support code generation, documentation, and intelligent automation.

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud-native development, including infrastructure-as-code, serverless computing, and container orchestration.

• Experience configuring, customizing, and testing vendor products (added advantage).

• A keen interest in researching new AI tooling and you are a daily user of AI coding assistants such as Cursor, Continue, GitHub CoPilot, Aider, Cline, etc.  (added advantage).

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with stakeholders to solve business-critical problems

Tech Stack:

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#, .Net, Python or Java

• Hands on in AWS Cloud technologies

• Database and transactional knowledge

• Working knowledge of DevOps & CI/CD pipelines

• Good experience in messaging technologies (MQ, Kafka)

• In depth knowledge of Kafka

• Knowledge of Oracle DB

• Python, SQL

• Knowledge of Redshift, Snowflake

Working with us 

Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with us is for you.

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

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. We’re looking for people who truly live our values: Care, Courage and Commitment and we’ll offer you great opportunities to develop your career with us.

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.

We're aware of some accessibility issues on this site, particularly for screen reader users. We want to make finding your dream job as easy as possible, so if you require additional support, please contact HR Direct on 1800 989 696.

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.

We're aware of some accessibility issues on this site, particularly for screen reader users. We want to make finding your dream job as easy as possible, so if you require additional support please contact HR Direct on 1800 989 696.