Principal Software Engineer

Princiapal Software Engineer: Full Stack

• You are collaborative and enjoy solving analytical problems to help our team to reach highest potential

• We are a team of big thinkers who are engineering the future of banking

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

Do work that matters

Here, you'll lead the evolution of AI-enabled product engineering teams, working on cutting-edge solutions that redefine how customers experience home buying. You'll architect scalable systems, drive technical strategy, and influence product direction across the organisation. What you do will have a lasting impact – shaping the future of digital banking and customer experience.

See yourself in our team

As a key member of the Home Buying crew, you'll be part of a cross-functional, empowered team and collaborate closely with Product and Design leaders. You'll mentor senior engineers and managers, lead technical initiatives, and represent engineering in executive discussions.

As Staff Software Engineer you will establish and evolve engineering standards while driving technical decision making.

We're interested in hearing from people who:

• Have solid hands-on experience developing engaging UI, BFF microservices using GraphQL, data access layers, and driving innovative process improvements that add significant business value

• Are knowledgeable and experienced in AI coding assisting technology: Github CoPilot, Cline, Cursor, Figma AI, etc…

• Are passionate designing, developing and deploying high quality software solutions as you are shaping the technical evolution of this system by contributing to end-to-end design, implementation

• Have experience with the full software development lifecycle and delivery using Agile practices with specific focus on the following concepts: source control, CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure cloud pipelines, logging and monitoring

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

• Are constantly collaborating with stakeholders to understand business requirements and contributing to the design

• Pride themselves on their natural drive to educate, communicate and positively influence various stakeholder groups

• Have solid hands-on experience in the banking domain will be advantageous

• Are constantly thinking outside the box and breaking boundaries to solve complex technical problems

• Have solid hands- experience with Cloud native development in AWS

• Are knowledgeable coaching junior engineers, sharing their expertise to uplift and improve software development practices

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 will set you up for success in this team:

• Front End Technology ReactJs and NextJs

• JavaScript frameworks NestJs, Apollo GraphQL, Prisma ORM

• Expertise with Microservices, GraphQL API and Restful API design patterns

• Databases – PostgreSQL, Oracle

• GenAI tools – Cline, Cursor, AWS Bedrock

• DevOps and CI/CD – Github Actions, TeamCity

• Docker and Kubernetes experience

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus/Grafana, Splunk, AWS Cloudwatch

• AI & Machine learning and LLM knowledge is desired 

• Expertise with Security Engineering principles and implementation

• Cloud native development - AWS preferred

• AWS Certification is a bonus

• Understanding on DevSecOps environment and landscape, SRE Practices

• Microsoft .Net Technologies such as C#, .Net Framework, .Net Core, MVC, Web API are desirable but not mandatory

Working with us

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

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

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. We're looking for people who truly live our values: Care, Courage and Commitment and we'll offer you great opportunities to develop your career with us.

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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