Staff Software Engineer - Payments Platform (Node/TS)

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

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Payments Technology in Melbourne. You will provide technical leadership, shape platform architecture and mentor engineers building scalable, secure payment services.

The role focuses on Node.js/TypeScript, cloud-native delivery, event-driven design and DevSecOps practices. Collaboration with product, security and operations will deliver reliable customer outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience with Node.js/TypeScript backend development and building APIs.
• Designing scalable, high-performance backend systems.
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Cloud-native engineering with AWS and Kubernetes is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across squads and set engineering direction.
• Design, build and evolve secure, scalable software platforms.
• Lead architecture decisions for complex distributed systems.
• Drive modernisation with cloud-native/event-driven architectures.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

APIs

Microservices

Distributed systems

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD

Job description

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Payments Technology in Melbourne. You will provide technical leadership, shape platform architecture and mentor engineers building scalable, secure payment services.

The role focuses on Node.js/TypeScript, cloud-native delivery, event-driven design and DevSecOps practices. Collaboration with product, security and operations will deliver reliable customer outcomes.