Staff Software Engineer: Payments Core (Node.js/TypeScript)

Commonwealth Bank; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Payments Technology (Typescript/Node.js) to lead across squads in Sydney or Melbourne. You will design secure, scalable platforms and drive modernisation using cloud-native and event-driven architectures.

You will mentor engineers, set engineering standards, and collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, Security and Operations to deliver impactful customer outcomes. Strong leadership and hands-on expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Node.js/TypeScript backend development.
• Proven ability to lead technical direction across teams.
• Designing scalable, resilient distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud-native platforms and IaC.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and Kafka.
• Strong collaboration with product, architecture and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across squads, setting engineering direction and raising technical standards.
• Design, build and evolve secure, scalable and resilient 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 operational excellence.
• Foster a strong DevSecOps culture by owning solutions end-to-end, from design and development through to deployment, production operations and continuous improvement.
• Mentor engineers and help grow technical capability across teams.
• Partner closely with Product, Architecture, Security and Operations to deliver meaningful customer outcomes.
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices, reusable platform capabilities and modern software delivery techniques where appropriate.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

APIs & Microservices

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

Kubernetes

Terraform/CloudFormation

CI/CD

Event-driven

Kafka

DevSecOps

Architecture leadership

Tools

AWS (EKS/ECS/Lambda)

Aurora PostgreSQL

S3

CloudWatch

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Payments Technology (Typescript/Node.js) to lead across squads in Sydney or Melbourne. You will design secure, scalable platforms and drive modernisation using cloud-native and event-driven architectures.

You will mentor engineers, set engineering standards, and collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, Security and Operations to deliver impactful customer outcomes. Strong leadership and hands-on expertise are essential.