Staff Frontend Engineer (React/Next.js) - Full Stack

Commonwealth Bank; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a Staff Software Engineer with a full-stack focus on frontend technologies (React, Next.js) to join Business Banking Technology in Melbourne or Sydney. You will help shape customer and colleague experiences across channels, data and AI-enabled platforms.

You will influence architecture, engineering standards and technical direction, mentor engineers, and contribute to cloud-native platform capabilities.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and delivering complex software solutions within large-scale or distributed environments.
• Strong hands-on software engineering capability and a passion for solving challenging technical problems.
• Experience building cloud-native applications, APIs, platforms or data-driven services.
• Ability to balance strategic technical thinking with hands-on delivery.
• Experience influencing technical direction, architecture and engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of scalable, resilient software solutions across customer channel and data platforms.
• Build and evolve applications, APIs, services and platform capabilities that support critical Business Banking experiences.
• Contribute across the technology stack, including backend services, cloud platforms, customer experiences and data-enabled solutions.
• Drive architectural decisions and influence engineering direction within and across squads.
• Champion modern software engineering practices including automated testing, CI/CD, observability and DevSecOps.
• Partner closely with product, business and architecture stakeholders to deliver meaningful customer outcomes.
• Mentor engineers and help grow technical capability across the broader organisation.
• Support platforms in production and drive continuous improvement through automation, monitoring and operational excellence.

Skills

Frontend React/TypeScript/Next.js

AWS Cloud

Kubernetes & Docker

CI/CD & Automation

DDD & microservices

.NET / Python experience

Tools

Terraform/CloudFormation

GitHub Actions/Jenkins

Job description

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a Staff Software Engineer with a full-stack focus on frontend technologies (React, Next.js) to join Business Banking Technology in Melbourne or Sydney. You will help shape customer and colleague experiences across channels, data and AI-enabled platforms.

You will influence architecture, engineering standards and technical direction, mentor engineers, and contribute to cloud-native platform capabilities.