Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer

• Typescript backend development

• AWS mastery (CDK, Lambda, API Gateways, DynamoDb)

Do work that matters 

Engineering the future of banking - We're building tomorrow’s bank today, envisioning new technologies that are still waiting to be invented and reimagining payments products that support millions of our customers, and help build Australia’s future economy.  

See yourself in our team 

Business Banking Technology has a vision of becoming Australia’s leading digital business bank, empowering businesses and people to succeed with tomorrow’s technology. We work hand-in-hand with our business colleagues to solve problems with customer centricity and technical innovation, cultivating a world-class empowered team who build technology solutions for the future.

As a Staff Software engineer, you’ll be joining a squad within our Real Time Payments crew (domain), working on our highly visibility and market leading product “Payment as a Service” (PaaS). As an experienced Staff Software Engineer, you’ll lead the end-to-end software engineering process, showcasing your forward-thinking solution design skills with hands-on development, deployment, security, and maintenance of the platform that powers our PaaS APIs with DevSecOps principles.

We’re interested in hearing from people who: 

• Have strong coaching and influencing skills that they have used to help large scale teams make big shifts in quality. 

• Have led the design and implementation of holistic software development & quality strategies for complex software systems. 

• Passionate about coding and building industry leading PaaS products and APIs from scratch for complex landscape of Payments services provided by the Bank by using modern tech stack.  

• Experienced in building things from ground-up and can influence the product stakeholders with confidence, while driving the technical roadmap with cross-collaborative crews and teams!  

• Ready to execute state-of-the-art coding practices, driving high quality outcomes to solve core business and minimise risks.  

• Curious design thinkers that break boundaries to solve complex API problems with an Agility focused mindset.  

• Naturally driven to engage, consult, influence, educate and provide technology advice to stakeholders, with an innate ability to coach and mentor team members.  

Technical Skills Required:

Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js backend development Strong AWS expertise with specific focus on:

• AWS CDK and CloudFormation for infrastructure as code

• Lambda and serverless architecture patterns

• Experience with AWS best practices and well-architected framework

System Design & Architecture:

• Proven experience designing scalable distributed systems (preferably SST experience, Pulumi/Terraform knowledge is a plus)

• Strong understanding of microservices architecture patterns

• Experience with API design and management

• Knowledge of event-driven architectures

• Understanding of performance optimization and scaling strategies

DevOps & Infrastructure:

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (preferably GitHub Actions)

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices

• Monitoring and observability implementation

• Security best practices in cloud environments

Soft Skills:

• Experience leading technical discussions and design reviews

• Analytical approach to problem-solving with focus on practical solutions

• Strong ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

• Experience in collaborating with solution architects and product teams

• Capable of presenting and defending architectural decisions

What Makes a Strong Candidate:

• Can walk through past technical challenges with clear problem-solving methodology

• Demonstrates understanding of how their technical decisions impact business outcomes

• Shows ability to adapt technical solutions based on changing requirements

• Has experience leading technical discussions while remaining open to alternative viewpoints

• Ability to see the bigger picture while maintaining attention to critical details

If this sounds like you, apply today!

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time connecting in 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.

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