Staff Software Engineer - Real-Time Payments Platform

Commonwealth Bank of Australia; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank of Australia in Sydney is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Payments Technology (Faster Payments) to lead real-time payment tech on cloud-native platforms. You'll drive system design, APIs, and microservices, and mentor engineers across squads.

You'll apply AI-assisted engineering, champion CI/CD and DevSecOps, and help shape the Faster Payments platform's evolution, ensuring secure, scalable, and reliable delivery.

Qualifications

• Strong modern software engineering experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Java or Spring Boot.
• Hands-on experience designing APIs, microservices and distributed applications.
• Strong cloud-native engineering experience with AWS and containerization, Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience designing or working with event-driven architectures, ideally using Kafka.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD and DevSecOps, including observability, resilience and production lifecycle ownership.
• Strong system-design skills and architectural decision making across complex tech environments.
• Experience providing technical leadership across multiple engineering teams or squads.
• Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor engineers and influence technical standards.
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted engineering tools in day-to-day delivery.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and engineering direction across complex software initiatives.
• Lead system design and make architectural decisions for secure, scalable, high-performance distributed applications.
• Design and evolve APIs and microservices using Node.js/TypeScript and Java/Spring Boot where it fits.
• Build cloud-native solutions using AWS, containerisation, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Apply event-driven architecture and messaging technologies such as Kafka to complex integration challenges.
• Champion modern engineering practices across CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, observability, resilience and production lifecycle ownership.
• Champion the responsible use of AI-assisted engineering to improve quality and speed while maintaining human review where essential.
• Work with engineers, Staff Engineers, Principal Engineers to set clear technical direction and standards.
• Coach and mentor engineers across teams; contribute to platform evolution for Faster Payments.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

Java

Spring Boot

APIs design

Microservices

Distributed systems

AI-assisted engineering

Production lifecycle ownership

Observability

Lead engineering

Tools

Kafka

AWS

Containerization / ECS / Kubernetes

Job description

Commonwealth Bank of Australia in Sydney is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Payments Technology (Faster Payments) to lead real-time payment tech on cloud-native platforms. You'll drive system design, APIs, and microservices, and mentor engineers across squads.

You'll apply AI-assisted engineering, champion CI/CD and DevSecOps, and help shape the Faster Payments platform's evolution, ensuring secure, scalable, and reliable delivery.