Staff Software Engineer

Posted 8 Days Ago
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Melbourne, Victoria
Mid level
Fintech • Financial Services
The Role
The Staff Software Engineer will lead engineering initiatives, implementing SRE capabilities, and mentoring diverse teams. They will drive technical strategies for projects, utilize strong coding and debugging skills, and ensure adherence to best practices in software development. This role focuses on building efficient, reliable systems that enhance the customer experience through innovative technology solutions.
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Staff Software Engineer

  • You are passionate for simplifying and enriching people's work experiences.

  • We are a team consisting of visionary thinkers dedicated to shaping the future of banking.

  • Together we can develop industry-leading product lifecycles that enhance capabilities, support people, and leverage technology.

Do work that matters

We're building tomorrow’s bank today, which means we need creative and diverse engineers to help us redefine what customers expect from a bank. Envisioning new technologies that are still waiting to be invented and reimagining products that support our customers and help build Australia’s future economy.
Here, you'll have the chance to bring your passion to life by working with the latest technology on groundbreaking projects that deliver a seamless and unmatched customer experience.
See yourself in our team

We are highly driven engineers working on the applications that is relied upon by millions of Australian every day.

Here, we foster an innovative, dynamic culture and a genuine commitment to drive diversity and inclusion. Within this role, you will work alongside a fantastic team of people, and highly invested managers focused on your career progression.
 

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

  • Have experience leading and sharing your skills and experience across a team of diverse engineers

  • Demonstrated experience building and implementing a mature SRE capability

  • Provide technical strategy and guidance, overseeing complex engineering initiatives

  • Drive the development of strategic programs of work, including proof of concept developments

  • Are comfortable working as team players and happy to take the time to perform peer design/ code reviews applying software reuse principles and developing creative solutions to debt management

  • Pride themselves on their knowledge and hands-on experience in Site Reliability, automation and toil elimination.

  • Have solid hands-on experience with process methodology, development methodologies (SRE, Agile, SDLC)

  • Drive the team under incidents in complex RCA and technical cause with an urgency on restoration of service and reducing customer impact

  • Are constantly demonstrating coding, design, debugging and problem-solving skills

  • Utilise strong understanding of core business and technical strategies to deliver best business outcomes through technical implementation

  • Follow best practices and industry standards in the team
    Identify, gain support for, and ensure execution of strategic direction in areas of expertise

  • Contribute to internal online discussion around software engineering, delivery and technology (for example blog posts and knowledge base articles)
     

Tech skills

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team;

  • Strong experience in Scripting languages, bash, PowerShell or any other structured language

  • Strong experience in AWS cloud and cloud patterns, certified in AWS and Kubernetes desirable

  • Experience in on-prem to cloud interop desirable

  • DB knowledge

  • API’s 

  • Serverless and microservice architecture

  • GitHub, GitActions, TeamCity

  • Kubernetes, Helm, EKS

  • Architecture principles

  • Strong experience implementing best practices for monitoring solutions and CI/CD pipeline

  • AWS Code Pipeline

  • Web services, REST/SOAP/XML and API/Service based testing using tools such as POSTMAN and Pact

  • Selenium, SonarQube, WiZ, Splunk, Observe, PagerDuty, Prometheus/Grafana, Terraform

  • Atlassian Suite (JIRA, Confluence)

  • OpenText knowledge – Documentum and InfoArchive desirable but not a mandate

Working with us:

Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with CommBank is for you.

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month connecting in our Sydney office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work for you.

Here, you’ll thrive. You’ll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We’re hiring engineers from across all of Australia and have opened technology hubs in Melbourne and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too.

If this sounds like you, apply now!

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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Top Skills

AWS
Bash
Kubernetes
Powershell
The Company
HQ: Sydney, New South Wales
52,000 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1911

What We Do

Australia’s leading provider of financial services including retail, premium, business and institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, insurance, investment and sharebroking products and services.

We are a business with more than 800,000 shareholders and over 52,000 employees. We offer a full range of financial services to help all Australians build and manage their finances.

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