Commbank
StaffSoftwareEngineer
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“Staff Software Engineer at Commbank. Skills: Backend engineering, Distributed systems, Cloud-native platforms, Microservices. Drive platform design. Drive platform development”
Industry & Context.
Problem-solving; Troubleshooting
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
12–18 years software engineering experience, Hands-on Java experience, Hands-on Spring Boot experience, Hands-on Spring Data JPA experience, Kafka experience, Microservices experience, Distributed systems experience, Hands-on ANSI SQL experience, Hands-on AWS experience, Experience building cloud-native applications, Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Experience with containerization, Experience with modern engineering practices, Problem-solving skills, Debugging skills, Communication skills
Nice to Have
Temporal experience, Generative AI / AI-enabled engineering exposure, GitHub Copilot usage experience, Kubernetes familiarity, ECS/EKS familiarity, Docker familiarity, Observability tools familiarity
What You'll Do.
Drive platform design
Drive platform development
Drive platform evolution
Design backend applications
Develop backend applications
Enhance backend applications
Build event-driven architectures
Support event-driven architectures
Build microservices architectures
Support microservices architectures
Design resilient systems
Implement resilient systems
Develop database integrations
Optimize database queries
Design applications on AWS
Deploy applications on AWS
Optimize applications 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
Support observability
Support secure software delivery
Contribute to raising engineering bar
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work with product managers; Work with architects; Work with engineering teams
Communication Scope
Communication skills
Process & Methodology
CI/CD, Agile
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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