Staff Software Engineer, Payments Tech — Cloud-Native Lead

Commonwealth Bank Of Australia; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank of Australia invites a Staff Software Engineer to lead design and delivery of scalable, high-performance payment solutions across cloud-native platforms. You will mentor engineers, shape technical direction, and influence architecture across teams in the PayTo domain focused on mandate management and scheduled payments.

The role combines deep software engineering with hands-on leadership, enabling architectural decisions, API design, and the development of secure, resilient

Qualifications

• Strong modern software engineering experience using Java and Spring Boot and/or Node.js and TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience designing APIs, microservices and distributed applications.
• Strong cloud-native engineering experience with AWS, with exposure to Kubernetes, containerisation and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience designing or working with event-driven architectures, ideally using Kafka or similar messaging platforms.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD and DevSecOps, including observability, resilience and owning software throughout its production lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and engineering direction across complex software initiatives.
• Lead system design and make pragmatic architectural decisions for secure, scalable and high-performance distributed applications.
• Design and evolve APIs and microservices using backend technologies such as Java and Spring Boot, Node.js and TypeScript.
• Build cloud-native solutions using AWS, Kubernetes, containerisation and Infrastructure as Code.
• Apply event-driven architecture and messaging technologies such as Kafka to solve complex integration and distributed-system challenges.
• Champion modern engineering practices across CI/CD, DevSecOps, observability, resilience and production lifecycle ownership.
• Work closely with engineers, Staff Engineers, Principal Engineers and other technology partners to establish clear technical direction.
• Coach and mentor engineers while influencing engineering standards and practices across teams.
• Contribute to the evolution of PayTo and mandate-management capabilities supporting scheduled payments.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Node.js

TypeScript

AWS

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Observability

Resilience

Production lifecycle

Tools

Kubernetes

Containerisation

Infrastructure as Code

Kafka

Job description

Commonwealth Bank of Australia invites a Staff Software Engineer to lead design and delivery of scalable, high-performance payment solutions across cloud-native platforms. You will mentor engineers, shape technical direction, and influence architecture across teams in the PayTo domain focused on mandate management and scheduled payments.

The role combines deep software engineering with hands-on leadership, enabling architectural decisions, API design, and the development of secure, resilient