staff Software Engineer

Organization

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is the largest and number one bank in Australia, serving over 17 million customers. We maintain a high-trust brand reputation built on financial strength, innovation, and community impact. As of July 2025, CBA holds market cap of approximately USD 195.7 billion, ranking us among the top 100 most valuable companies globally. Our leadership in digital banking, customer safety, and responsible AI reflects our commitment to building a brighter future for all.

Our values are reflected in our high-trust brand reputation. CBA is consistently ranked among Australia’s most valuable and trusted brands.

Our partnership with the Matildas, Australia's national women's football team, highlights our dedication to gender equity and community pride. In 2021, we became the largest investor in women's football in the country, boosting participation by 27% and more than doubling game attendance.

We also invest in initiatives like Can4Cancer, reinforcing our role as a purpose-led organisation that supports social impact and building a brighter future for all.

Job Title

Staff Software Engineer

Location

Bangalore

Your role and impact

• Provide technical leadership within a cross-functional squad delivering digital servicing and Entity Onboarding capabilities for IB&M customers.

• Shape scalable solution designs, guide complex delivery and remain hands-on across the full stack.

• Build secure, cloud-native and API-led experiences while raising engineering standards and coaching engineers.

Your reporting lines

• Reports to Chapter Lead, Digital Customer Engineering.

• Works closely with Digital Service Excellence Crew stakeholders across product, design, architecture, risk and platform teams.

Your skills and experience

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with hands-on full-stack delivery and technical leadership.

• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js and NestJS experience.

• REST APIs, microservices and enterprise integration patterns.

• Automated testing using Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright or Cypress.

• CI/CD, DevSecOps, code-quality controls and safe release practices.

• AWS cloud-native development, monitoring and operational readiness.

• Strong stakeholder influence, communication and coaching capability.

• Kafka/event-driven architecture, digital onboarding and AI/GenAI exposure are desirable.

Your responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain secure, scalable and high-quality digital applications across front-end, back-end and integration layers.

• Partner with product owners, designers, architects, engineers and platform teams to translate business outcomes into technical solutions.

• Own solution quality through clean code, automated testing, peer reviews, observability and operational readiness.

• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps controls and safe release practices aligned to engineering standards.

• Mentor engineers, share knowledge and support continuous improvement across the squad.

Education qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related technical discipline.

• Equivalent industry experience in full-stack engineering, cloud-native delivery or enterprise software development will also be considered.

• Relevant cloud, engineering or agile certifications are desirable.

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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17/11/2026