Staff Software Engineer – Payments Platform Lead

Commonwealth Bank; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Payments Technology. The role focuses on shaping the technical direction of secure, scalable payment platforms from Sydney or Melbourne.

You will provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and drive modern cloud-native and AI-enabled engineering practices. Collaborate with Product, Architecture, Security and Operations to deliver reliable customer experiences at scale.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with backend systems and microservices architecture.
• Proven ability to lead architecture decisions and influence engineering standards.
• Experience with cloud-native platforms and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across teams, shaping architecture and standards.
• Design, build and evolve secure, scalable, resilient platforms and distributed systems.
• Lead architecture decisions and modernisation using cloud-native and event-driven approaches.
• Champion software quality, testing, observability, security and operational excellence.
• Foster DevSecOps culture from design to production operations and continuous improvement.
• Mentor engineers and promote AI-enabled engineering practices.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Node.js

TypeScript

Cloud-native

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Kafka

Tools

Docker

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Payments Technology. The role focuses on shaping the technical direction of secure, scalable payment platforms from Sydney or Melbourne.

You will provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and drive modern cloud-native and AI-enabled engineering practices. Collaborate with Product, Architecture, Security and Operations to deliver reliable customer experiences at scale.