Staff Software Engineer, Payments Tech - Lead Scalable APIs

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

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Payments Technology to lead the design and delivery of scalable payment solutions on cloud-native platforms. You will mentor engineers, shape technical direction across teams, and influence architecture in the PayTo product area focused on mandate management and scheduled payments.

You will work with Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, and TypeScript, build APIs and microservices, and champion CI/CD, DevSecOps, observability, and resilient

Qualifications

• Experience delivering scalable payment tech on cloud-native platforms.
• Lead engineers and influence architectural direction across squads.
• Strong Java/Spring Boot or Node.js/TypeScript with API design.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across complex software initiatives.
• Design and evolve APIs and microservices for secure, scalable apps.
• Champion CI/CD, DevSecOps, observability and production lifecycle.
• Mentor engineers and set engineering standards.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Node.js

TypeScript

APIs

Microservices

Distributed systems

AWS

Kubernetes

Containerization

Infrastructure as Code

Kafka

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Observability

Architectural leadership

Tools

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Payments Technology to lead the design and delivery of scalable payment solutions on cloud-native platforms. You will mentor engineers, shape technical direction across teams, and influence architecture in the PayTo product area focused on mandate management and scheduled payments.

You will work with Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, and TypeScript, build APIs and microservices, and champion CI/CD, DevSecOps, observability, and resilient