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Staff Software Engineer

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Sydney, New South Wales
Mid level
Sydney, New South Wales
Mid level
The Staff Software Engineer will design and implement complex software solutions in the Business Banking technology space, focusing on application development, technical strategy, and mentoring. The role involves working with a variety of technologies including TypeScript, Node, and AWS, while fostering an inclusive team culture and driving diversity.
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  • You are passionate about making peoples jobs simpler and more rewarding

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

  • Together we can create industry leading product lifecycles that support capabilities, people and technology

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

We are a highly driven DecSecOps engineers who are designing, developing and delivering business critical features on key product that is part of the payment ecosystem. Here, we foster an innovative, dynamic culture and a genuine commitment to drive diversity and inclusion. Within this role, you will work alongside a fantastic team of people, and highly invested managers focused on your career progression.

We’re interested in hearing from people who

  • Have solid hands-on application development experience using TypeScript/Node, Java, and REST APIs

  • Pride themselves in providing technical strategy and guidance, overseeing medium to complex engineering initiatives

  • Are confident driving the development of strategic programs of work, including proof of concept developments

  • Have solid hands-on experience with Serverless Computing including Infrastructure as code using AWS

  • Are knowledgeable of core business and technical strategies to deliver best business outcomes through technical implementation

  • Are confident identifying, gaining support for, and ensuring execution of strategic direction in areas of expertise

  • Pride themselves in their responsibility for nominated technical assets related to areas of expertise including roadmaps and technical direction

  • Are constantly mentoring and up-skilling other engineering teams across different squads

  • Are constantly contributing to internal online discussion around software engineering, delivery and technology (for example blog posts and knowledge base articles)

  • Pride themselves in driving the team to deliver complex troubleshooting activity

Tech Skills
We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We do not expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these, or a willing to learn these skillsets (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team;

  • TypeScript/Node, Java, and REST APIs

  • Serverless Computing using AWS - AWS lambda, API gateway, IAM Roles & Policy, SQS, SNS, Aurora PostgreSQL

  • Sound knowledge of OAuth2 and MTLS

  • Infrastructure code AWS CDK/Terraform/CloudFormation/SST

  • Experience designing database schemas and writing high performance queries against very large datasets

  • Experience working in a DevOps environment and contributing to the CI-CD pipeline

  • Microservices architecture, Design Patterns, and best practices in software programming

  • Working knowledge on Pub-Sub and Streaming technologies such as SQS, SNS, Kafka and Kinesis

  • Monitoring and logging tools such as Splunk, CloudWatch

  • Performance tuning while building high throughput and resilient applications.

  • SDLC with Agile methodology

  • Certification: AWS Developer – Associate

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 our Sydney 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 this sounds like you, apply now!

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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Top Skills

Java
Node.js
Typescript
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Commonwealth Bank Sydney, New South Wales, AUS Office

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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