Staff Software Engineer

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 architecturesusing Kafka

• Design and implement resilient distributed systems using patterns such as Circuit Breakerand 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 yearsof software engineering experience

• Strong hands-on experience in Java

• Strong hands-on experience in Spring Bootand Spring Data JPA

• Strong experience with Kafka

• Strong experience building microservicesand distributed systems

• Hands-on understanding of microservices resilience and orchestration patterns such as Circuit Breakerand SAGA / Choreography

• Strong experience with databasessuch 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