Payments - Engineering Manager

cba; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

CommBank in Bengaluru (Manyata Tech Park) seeks an Engineering Manager for Payments Technology to lead a team delivering secure, scalable software. You will stay hands-on while guiding engineers to design, build, and operate resilient payment solutions using .NET, Node.js and cloud services.

You will own end-to-end designs, drive CI/CD, IaC and DevSecOps, and translate business goals into technical delivery plans.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in C#, .NET and .NET Core with REST APIs.
• Experience designing microservices and event-driven systems.
• Solid knowledge of distributed-system patterns and integration.
• Hands-on AWS experience across core services and DevOps tooling.
• Experience with CI/CD, IaC, testing and containerisation.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on in software delivery while leading engineers.
• Design, develop, review and maintain production-grade apps and APIs.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through coding and reviews.
• Translate business outcomes into technical requirements and plans.
• Own end-to-end solution design, including API contracts and data flows.
• Build secure, scalable AWS solutions and managed services.
• Implement and improve CI/CD, infrastructure as code, testing and release controls.
• Embed security across the software development lifecycle.

Skills

C#, .NET

REST APIs

JavaScript/TypeScript

Node.js/NestJS/Next.js

Microservices

SOLID principles

AWS

DevOps tools

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS Cloud

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Organization

At CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in other people's financial wellbeing. Our focus is to help people and businesses move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets, and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organisation, your initiative, talent, ideas, and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can achieve great things.

Job Title

Engineering Team

Location

Bangalore-Manyata Tech Park

Business & Team

Enterprise Services (ES) is responsible for the world leading application of technology and operations across every aspect of CommBank, from innovative product platforms for our customers to essential tools within our business. We also use technology to drive efficient and timely processing, an essential component of great customer service. CommBank is recognized as leading the industry in IT and operations with its world-class platforms and processes, agile IT infrastructure, and innovation in everything from payments to internet banking and mobile apps. The Payments Technology and Environments team resides in the Payments Service Utility and its purpose is to restore the trust of our customers by transforming the Payments services experiences provided by the Bank to 99.999% availability, greater agility and reliability. Our team is composed of engineers and technology leaders, who bring in the right mix of skills to enable this transformation. We also work very closely with our business and operations colleagues to support these services which are critical to the Australian and Global economy. Our team is also responsible to also drive Engineering Governance, Continuous Delivery and key technological simplification pillars such as Cloud and Payments Event based architecture.

Impact & Contribution

As an Engineering Manager within Payments Technology - Channel & Reporting, you will be responsible for implementing the designs. You are expected to develop solutions and guide design to drive outcomes across the Core Product Systems within Channel & Reporting applications. You are responsible for design analysis and the estimation process from Business Case, ideation, discovery and inception phases.

Roles & Responsibilities

• As an Engineering Manager, you will remain hands-on in software delivery while leading engineers to design, build, secure and operate resilient payment solutions. You will contribute production-quality code, establish engineering standards and enable reliable delivery through modern cloud and DevOps practices.
• Design, develop, review and maintain production-grade applications, APIs and microservices using .NET/.NET Core, Node.js, NestJS and Next.js.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through coding, pair programming, code reviews, troubleshooting and resolution of complex cross-system issues.
• Translate business outcomes into clear technical requirements, solution options, architecture decisions, delivery estimates and implementation plans.
• Own end-to-end solution design, including API contracts, event-driven integration, data flows, domain boundaries, resilience, performance and observability.
• Build and evolve secure, scalable AWS solutions using services such as Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, Fargate, IAM, VPC, load balancing, storage and managed databases.
• Implement and improve CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, containerisation, deployment, monitoring and operational support practices.
• Embed security throughout the software development lifecycle, including threat modelling, secure coding, secrets management, vulnerability remediation and security controls.
• Lead technical analysis, proof-of-concepts and design reviews; challenge assumptions and make pragmatic decisions based on risk, value, cost and maintainability.
• Coach engineers in coding practices, architecture, testing and DevSecOps while maintaining accountability for delivery quality and engineering outcomes.

Essential Skills

• Extensive software engineering experience with recent hands-on contributions to production code.
• Strong proficiency in C#, .NET and .NET Core, including REST APIs, background services, dependency injection, asynchronous programming, testing and performance optimisation.
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript development experience using Node.js, NestJS and Next.js.
• Experience designing microservices, API-first and event-driven systems, with sound knowledge of distributed-system patterns and integration practices.
• Strong application architecture and object-oriented design capability, including SOLID principles, design patterns, domain modelling and maintainable code structure.
• Hands-on AWS experience across Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, Fargate, IAM, VPC, load balancers, CloudWatch and related managed services.
• Practical DevOps experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or TeamCity, Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code and automated release controls.