Lead Node.js/TypeScript Platform Engineer – Payments

Commonwealth Bank; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank is hiring a Staff Software Engineer in Payments Technology (Typescript/Nodejs) to help build observable, resilient production systems in Sydney or Melbourne. You will provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and steer architecture for secure, scalable platforms powering Australia’s largest bank.

You will contribute across cloud-native engineering, real-time payment experiences, AI-enabled practices, and modern delivery techniques while partnering with product,

Qualifications

• Experience with Node.js and TypeScript backend development.
• Designing APIs, microservices and distributed systems at scale.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native platforms and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Strong CI/CD and modern software delivery practices.
• Champion observability, security and DevSecOps across the lifecycle.
• Mentor engineers and lead with technical direction across squads.
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, Security and Operations.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across squads, setting engineering direction and standards.
• Design, build and evolve secure, scalable software platforms.
• Lead architecture and design decisions for complex distributed systems.
• Drive modernisation initiatives using cloud-native and event-driven architectures.
• Champion engineering excellence across software quality, testing, observability, security and operations.
• Foster a strong DevSecOps culture from design through deployment and operations.
• Mentor engineers and grow technical capability across teams.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Security and Operations to deliver outcomes.
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices and reusable platform capabilities.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

APIs

Microservices

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

DevSecOps

AWS

Kafka

Tools

AWS

EKS

ECS

Lambda

Aurora PostgreSQL

S3

CloudWatch

Job description

Commonwealth Bank is hiring a Staff Software Engineer in Payments Technology (Typescript/Nodejs) to help build observable, resilient production systems in Sydney or Melbourne. You will provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and steer architecture for secure, scalable platforms powering Australia’s largest bank.

You will contribute across cloud-native engineering, real-time payment experiences, AI-enabled practices, and modern delivery techniques while partnering with product,