Staff Software Engineer - AI-Driven Fraud Platform

Commonwealth Bank Of Australia; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

CommBank is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help engineer platforms that detect and investigate financial crime. You will work hands-on across services, APIs, data integration and interfaces used by detection and investigation teams.

You’ll ship production code, shape design decisions and mentor engineers while modernising our technology with reusable capabilities and strong security controls.

Qualifications

• Strong CS foundations with algorithms, data structures and system design.
• Experience with backend services, APIs and data integration; frontend exposure OK.
• Proficient in modern typed languages (Java, Kotlin, Go or Python) and SPA techs.
• Full-stack capability with React and TypeScript, plus BFF layers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate production services and APIs with clear contracts and boundaries.
• Contribute to architecture decisions, refactor and improve performance.
• Consolidate capabilities on shared platforms and retire legacy tech where possible.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated tests and progressive delivery.
• Ensure reliability with dashboards, alerting and SLIs; embed security and privacy controls.
• Engineer AI and agentic features with orchestration, evaluation and guardrails.
• Embed regulatory controls and maintain robust design reviews and code quality.
• Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards through collaboration.

Skills

Algorithms

Data structures

Concurrency

System design

Backend services

APIs

Java

TypeScript

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Kafka

Grafana

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Kafka

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

CommBank is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help engineer platforms that detect and investigate financial crime. You will work hands-on across services, APIs, data integration and interfaces used by detection and investigation teams.

You’ll ship production code, shape design decisions and mentor engineers while modernising our technology with reusable capabilities and strong security controls.