- Location
- Bangalore - Manyata Tech Park Road, India
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Senior
- Closing date
- Jun 30, 2026
- Source
- Workday
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: Staff Software Engineer
Location: Bangalore
Business & Team: Corporate Technology
Impact & contribution
As a senior engineering leader, you will drive the design, development, and evolution of scalable, resilient, and cloud-native platforms. You will bring strong hands-on expertise in backend engineering and distributed systems while influencing architecture, delivery quality, and engineering best practices across teams.
This role requires deep technical capability in Java, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Kafka, databases, and AWS, along with the ability to solve complex engineering challenges, guide teams, and deliver high-quality outcomes in enterprise environments.
Key responsibilities
Design, develop, and enhance scalable backend applications using Java, Spring Boot, and Spring Data JPA
Build and support event-driven and microservices-based architectures using Kafka
Design and implement resilient distributed systems using patterns such as Circuit Breaker and SAGA / Choreography
Develop robust and efficient integrations with relational and NoSQL databases
Write and optimize queries using ANSI SQL
Design, deploy, and optimize applications running on AWS
Drive technical design, architecture discussions, and engineering best practices
Work closely with product managers, architects, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions
Troubleshoot complex production issues and improve performance, scalability, resilience, and security
Contribute to hands-on coding, code reviews, design discussions, and technical problem-solving
Support modern engineering practices including CI/CD, observability, automation, and secure software delivery
Mentor engineers and contribute to raising the overall engineering bar across the organization
Essential Skills
12–18 years of software engineering experience
Strong hands-on experience in Java
Strong hands-on experience in Spring Boot and Spring Data JPA
Strong experience with Kafka
Strong experience building microservices and distributed systems
Hands-on understanding of microservices resilience and orchestration patterns such as Circuit Breaker and SAGA / Choreography
Strong experience with databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or similar
Strong hands-on experience in ANSI SQL
Strong hands-on experience with AWS
Experience building cloud-native applications in production environments
Strong understanding of REST APIs, system integration, scalability, reliability, and secure software design
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and modern engineering practices
Strong problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills
Good to have
Experience with Temporal
Exposure to Generative AI / AI-enabled engineering
Experience using GitHub Copilot
Familiarity with Kubernetes, ECS/EKS, Docker, and observability tools
Education Qualifications
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline
If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.
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