Business Banking Technology | Sydney / Melbourne
We’re modernising CBA’s legacy CRM stack and building an AI-powered Banker Workbench that will transform how our bankers engage customers and manage their day.As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll take technical leadership of a major new capability — the Task Centre — a greenfield feature that will become the “manage my day” hub for business bankers, consolidating tasks, regulatory commitments and AI-driven insights into one intelligent experience.
This is a high-impact role where you’ll combine hands-on engineering with technical strategy, mentoring, and cross-squad influence.
What you’ll doLead the design and delivery of a new AI-enabled Task Centre within the Banker Workbench
Provide front-end technical leadership across the squad (Actionable Insights)
Architect and build modern, scalable solutions using Next.js, TypeScript and React
Collaborate closely with senior engineers, product and cross-domain teams
Shape solution architecture and engineering standards
Mentor engineers across Australia and India
Embed DevOps, observability, quality engineering and secure-by-design practices
Drive pragmatic AI integration into user workflows (LLMs, AI-assisted features)
Front-end focus:
Next.js
TypeScript
React
State management (Redux or similar)
Modern UI/UX patterns
Back-end & Platform:
.NET
AWS (Azure/GCP experience also welcome)
CI/CD (GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Octopus or similar)
Observability & security tooling (logging, monitoring, Snyk, SonarQube, etc.)
AI & Modern Engineering:
Desirable: Experience integrating AI/LLMs into applications
Desirable: Familiarity with tools like LangChain, LlamaIndex or similar
Strong user-centric thinking around AI-driven workflows
Comfortable leveraging AI coding tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Claude, RooCode etc.)
Proven experience operating at Staff Engineer level or equivalent senior technical leadership
Strong front-end engineering depth with full-stack awareness
Ability to lead technical direction while remaining hands-on
Experience modernising legacy systems or building greenfield capabilities
Strong stakeholder communication and collaboration skills
Passion for engineering excellence, clean architecture and continuous improvement
You’ll help modernise a critical banking platform used daily by business bankers
You’ll build a brand-new AI-powered feature, not just maintain legacy code
You’ll influence architecture across multiple squads
You’ll work on real-world AI integration, not just experimentation
You’ll help shape the future CRM experience at one of Australia’s largest banks
Apply today!
We offer flexible ways of working, with roles based in Sydney or Melbourne, and a balance of in-office collaboration and flexibility.
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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