Full-Stack Engineering Manager (AI-Driven Platform)

Commonwealth Bank; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank seeks an Engineering Manager for its Apply With Ease Crew in Melbourne, VIC. You will lead a hands-on squad of 3-5 engineers, own architectural decisions and drive secure, scalable home lending platforms end-to-end from idea to production.

You’ll shape technical strategy, champion modern engineering practices, and contribute to AI-powered development and automation while uplifting standards across Home Buying in a large, customer-focused fintech environment.

Qualifications

• Have deep full-stack and/or backend engineering expertise with the technical credibility to lead architecture, design and delivery of secure, scalable customer platforms.
• Lead a small team of engineers while remaining hands-on with coding, architecture and engineering delivery, fostering a culture of ownership, technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Own outcomes end-to-end, partnering with Product and Design to solve customer problems from discovery through to production.
• Champion full-cycle engineering with a "you build it, you own it" mindset, driving accountability for reliability, observability, security and operational excellence.
• Bring proven experience designing and operating distributed systems, APIs and cloud-native platforms at scale.
• Drive modern engineering practices including CI/CD, automated testing, DevOps and cloud engineering to enable safe, frequent delivery.
• Influence engineering strategy, architecture, standards and capability uplift across teams and the broader engineering community.
• Make pragmatic technical decisions that balance delivery speed, engineering quality, security, risk and long-term platform sustainability.
• Are passionate about AI-powered Engineering, automation and developer experience, using modern tools and practices to improve productivity, quality and delivery outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead a squad of 3-5 engineers to deliver secure, scalable home lending platforms from idea to production.
• Write production code, review pull requests and contribute to architecture and reliability improvements.
• Partner with Product and Design to own outcomes end-to-end, from discovery through production.
• Uplift engineering standards across Home Buying and influence technical direction.
• Champion modern engineering practices including CI/CD, automated testing, and cloud-native delivery.

Skills

Leadership & ownership

Architectural vision

CI/CD & DevOps mindset

AI-powered development

Tools

TypeScript

React

Next.js

Node.js

REST APIs

Distributed systems

AWS

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

TeamCity

PostgreSQL

MySQL

SQL Server

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

CloudWatch

TDD

BDD

Job description

Commonwealth Bank seeks an Engineering Manager for its Apply With Ease Crew in Melbourne, VIC. You will lead a hands-on squad of 3-5 engineers, own architectural decisions and drive secure, scalable home lending platforms end-to-end from idea to production.

You’ll shape technical strategy, champion modern engineering practices, and contribute to AI-powered development and automation while uplifting standards across Home Buying in a large, customer-focused fintech environment.