Staff Software Engineer, Payments Platform (AI/Cloud)

Commonwealth Bank; Sydney; On-site; AUD 210,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Payments Technology in Australia. The role is based in Sydney or Melbourne and focuses on shaping secure, scalable payment platforms, API products and AI-enabled engineering practices.

You will lead architecture, mentor teams and drive the modernization of our payments ecosystem. You’ll work with cloud-native approaches, event-driven architectures and strong DevSecOps practices to deliver reliable services that handle billions of dollars

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Java and Spring Boot in microservices.
• Proven leadership in architecture and platform design.
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and set engineering direction across teams.
• Design and evolve scalable, secure payment platforms.
• Mentor engineers and drive DevSecOps practices.
• Collaborate with product, security and operations.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Node.js

TypeScript

AWS

Kubernetes

Microservices

APIs

DevSecOps

Cloud-native

Tools

Kafka

CI/CD

Terraform

Docker

Job description

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Payments Technology in Australia. The role is based in Sydney or Melbourne and focuses on shaping secure, scalable payment platforms, API products and AI-enabled engineering practices.

You will lead architecture, mentor teams and drive the modernization of our payments ecosystem. You’ll work with cloud-native approaches, event-driven architectures and strong DevSecOps practices to deliver reliable services that handle billions of dollars