Staff / Lead Software Engineer (API Development, AI)

Staff Software Engineer (API Development, AI)

• You are a problem solver with a strong background in software engineering

• We are a growing team within the bank and constantly involved in industry changing solutions

• Together we will build tomorrow’s bank today, using world-leading engineering, technology, and innovation

Do work that matters

We are seeking a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer to join our team who are building base for AI solutions within the crew. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a key role in driving the technical direction of our projects, with a primary focus on design, implementation of best practices and reusable patterns, and endorse new designs and patterns for wider usage.

You will work closely with cross-functional teams to develop scalable solutions using wide tech stack. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software engineering, exceptional problem-solving skills, AI and a passion for building robust systems.   

See yourself in our team

This role is part of the Decisioning Platform Crew within Chief Data Analytic Office (CDAO), where we design and deliver solutions which are used across the crew.
We are seeking an outstanding Staff Software Engineer to join our team and help to shape the direction of our AI capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, develop and deploy high quality software solutions with comprehensive test coverage.

• Analyse business objectives and identify functional and non-functional requirements.

• Design and implement technical solutions for functional and non-functional requirements.

• Provide accurate estimates for the development effort for new features.

• Continuously improve and improvise to find the best solutions for business and technical teams

• Provide mentoring and technical assistance to other members of the team.

• Work well with different team members whilst practicing knowledge sharing and T-shaping

• Apply and promote industry best patterns and practices with focus on test automation.

• Take ownership of initiatives and assets and follow up to provide highest quality of customer service

• Contribute to the strategic engineering goals within own team / platform 

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

• Are passionate about building developing and deploying high quality software solutions.

• Can own and develop technical strategy and guidance, overseeing medium to complex engineering initiatives.

• Can utilise strong understanding of core business and technical strategies to deliver best business outcomes through technology.

• Can provide thought leadership across projects and delivery teams.

• Can take responsibility for nominated technical assets related to areas of expertise including roadmaps and technical direction.

• Can influence, collaborate, present ideas, perform reviews and mentor other junior engineers

Technical 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.

• Expert in API development preferably in .Net/Java or Python (FastAPI) and REST APIs.

• Knowledgeable of Microservice Architecture, Design Patterns and best practices.

• Soft skills: Excellent communication skills. Working experience with Agile methodologies.

• Cloud: Experience on cloud deployment, with preference for AWS cloud

• CI/CD: expertise with usage and configuration of fully automated pipelines is useful. This includes GitHub Actions, Artifactory and Azure DevOps.

• Understanding of DevSecOps/SRE Best Practices

• Experience in any of the front-end technologies like React/Angular preferred

• Artificial Intelligence: Experience in AI technologies, particularly around tooling enhancements will be valued.

• Understanding of AI agents and patterns

• Experience in building AI solutions using LLM’s

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

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time each month 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. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work in the role you’re interested in.

If this sounds like the role for you then we would love to hear from you. Apply today!