Commbank

StaffSoftwareEngineer

Bangalore, India FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Staff Software Engineer at Commbank. Skills: Java, Spring Boot, AWS, distributed systems. Design scalable backend applications. Develop scalable backend applications”

What You'll Achieve.

deliver high-quality outcomes

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

problem-solving; technical problem-solving

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

12–18 years of software engineering experience, hands-on experience in Java, hands-on experience in Spring Boot and Spring Data JPA, experience with Kafka, experience building microservices and distributed systems, Hands-on understanding of microservices resilience and orchestration patterns such as Circuit Breaker and SAGA / Choreography, experience with databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or similar, hands-on experience in ANSI SQL, hands-on experience with AWS, Experience building cloud-native applications in production environments, understanding of REST APIs, system integration, scalability, reliability, and secure software design, Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and modern engineering practices, problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills

Nice 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

What You'll Do.

Design scalable backend applications

Develop scalable backend applications

Enhance scalable backend applications

Build event-driven architectures

Support event-driven architectures

Build microservices-based architectures

Support microservices-based architectures

Design resilient distributed systems

Implement resilient distributed systems

Develop integrations with databases

Write and optimize queries

Design applications running on AWS

Deploy applications running on AWS

Optimize applications running on AWS

Drive technical design

Drive architecture discussions

Drive engineering best practices

Translate business requirements

Troubleshoot production issues

Contribute to code reviews

Contribute to design discussions

Contribute to technical problem-solving

Support modern engineering practices

Raise engineering bar

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work closely with product managers; Work closely with architects; Work closely with engineering teams

Communication Scope

communication skills

Full Job Description

**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 architectures** using **Kafka** * Design and implement resilient distributed systems using patterns such as **Circuit Breaker** and **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 performan

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