- Location
- Eveleigh, NSW - 5-7 Central Ave, Australia
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Senior
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Workday
Description
Staff Software Engineer
Build modern cloud-based data solutions that help detect, monitor and prevent financial crime at scale.
Influence architecture, engineering standards and technical direction across a rapidly growing platform working with AWS
Help shape the future of data-driven financial crime reporting and insights used across the bank.
Do work that matters
With a background in end-to-end application management experience, you are passionate about building critical applications as part of a pipeline that impacts millions of customers. As someone who is detail focused and loves solving challenges, you will design, code, test and deploy complex enterprise level Microservices-based applications.
You'll work across modern AWS data technologies including MWAA, Lambda, AWS MSK, Redshift, Iceberg and Snowflake, helping transform complex data into trusted products that support critical business decisions and customer outcomes. You'll collaborate with engineers, product teams and stakeholders to deliver secure, resilient and high-quality data solutions while contributing to the evolution of our cloud data ecosystem.
See yourself in our team
Be part of the team that helps CommBank make better decisions. Risk Management partners across the Group to identify, assess and manage risk, protecting our customers, strengthening the bank and enabling sustainable growth. Join a collaborative team where you'll solve complex challenges, influence strategic decisions, and use data, insights and innovation to make a meaningful impact.
Our Financial Crime Reporting & Insights crew is highly data-driven, with dedicated squads building the platforms and pipelines that enable critical financial crime products and services. You'll work alongside experienced engineers in a supportive environment that values innovation, continuous learning and engineering excellence.
We’re interested in hearing from people who have:
Proven experience designing and delivering complex distributed systems at scale
Strong hands-on software engineering capability and a passion for solving challenging technical problems
Experience building microservices architectures within cloud-native environments
Strong architectural and systems design skills
A track record of mentoring engineers and influencing technical decision-making
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
The ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on engineering delivery
A growth mindset and curiosity for emerging technologies and engineering practices
Contribute to triage of production and test environment issues.
Technical Experience:
Experience with AWS services and cloud-native application development, including AWS Lambda (Python/Node.js), MWAA (Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow), AWS Step Functions, Apache Iceberg tables, and Amazon Redshift.
Experience building and deploying event-driven services integrated with API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, Apache Kafka (or AWS MSK), and messaging services such as SNS and SQS.
Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, .NET, TypeScript, Go
Design and development of Microservices (RESTful APIs, Reactive and Batch) based applications
Experience working across backend, frontend and integration capabilities
Exposure to AI-powered development or operational tooling
Being a full cycle engineer, manage the end to delivery cycle including requirement gathering, documentation, design, build, test, and release.
Engineering Excellence: CI/CD pipelines, Automated testing, Observability and monitoring, DevSecOps practices, Agile software delivery
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes is highly desirable
Banking domain knowledge is desirable
Working with us
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If this sounds like the role for you then we would love to hear from you. Apply today!
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