Staff Software Engineer - Payments (Node.js/TypeScript)

CommBank; Sydney; On-site; AUD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

CommBank is hiring multiple Staff Software Engineers in Payments Technology. You will provide technical leadership across squads, shaping architecture and driving modern, secure, scalable platforms for Australia’s largest bank.

You’ll mentor engineers, partner with product and security teams, and forward AI-enabled engineering practices while delivering reliable payment experiences at scale.

Qualifications

• Experience with Node.js and TypeScript for backend development.
• Designing scalable, high-performance backend systems.
• Building APIs, microservices and distributed applications.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across squads, setting engineering direction and standards.
• Design, build and evolve secure, scalable platforms.
• Lead architecture and design decisions for distributed systems.
• Drive modernisation using cloud-native and event-driven architectures.
• Champion software quality, testing, observability, security and operational excellence.
• Mentor engineers and grow technical capability across teams.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

Backend APIs

Microservices

Distributed systems

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Architectural leadership

Mentoring

Tools

Kafka

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

EKS

Job description

CommBank is hiring multiple Staff Software Engineers in Payments Technology. You will provide technical leadership across squads, shaping architecture and driving modern, secure, scalable platforms for Australia’s largest bank.

You’ll mentor engineers, partner with product and security teams, and forward AI-enabled engineering practices while delivering reliable payment experiences at scale.