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-Manyata Tech Park (Hybrid)

Business & Team: Corp Tech

Impact & contribution:

As a Staff Software Engineer – The Zero Touch Operations (ZTO) squad you will be dedicated to enabling fully automated deployment, monitoring, management, and diagnosis of production software systems. By leveraging intelligent automation, ZTO minimises manual intervention, streamlines workflows, and ensures comprehensive system visibility and health. The team’s focus is on building resilient, self-healing systems that proactively detect and resolve issues, empowering operations to be seamless, scalable, and efficient across diverse environments

Roles & responsibilities

• To succeed in this role, you will be a strong engineer with hands on experience delivering large, scalable enterprise services, platforms and applications built on AWS cloud native technologies.

• You will bring 10+ years of experience solving complex technical challenges, architecting highly available, resilient, responsive and scalable solutions using the well-established industry standards.

• You will lead a team of engineers and orchestrate the engineering efforts towards specific deliverables and goals.

• In this role you will work closely with the Principle Engineers and Chief Engineer while creating, presenting, evolving, validating and executing your design.

• You will be a hands-on engineer yourself delivering key components while overlooking your team members' deliverables.

• You will possess and showcase in-depth knowledge of Database design, implementation, performance and integration with working knowledge of large-scale RDBMS like Aurora and NOSQL like DDB

AI & Intelligent Automation

As part of a modern workflow platform, we are progressively introducing AI-assisted capabilities to improve productivity, decisioning, and system intelligence. As a Staff Engineer you will help shape how AI is applied responsibly and pragmatically across the platform and have the following responsibilities

Design and integrate AI-assisted features into workflow and platform services, such as:

• Workflow and rules inference from structured and semi-structured inputs

• Intelligent routing, classification, and recommendations within workflows

• AI-assisted validation, schema evolution, and decision support

• Partner with platform and security teams to ensure safe, explainable, and compliant AI usage.

• Define architectural patterns for:

• Calling LLMs or AI services from long-running workflows

• Handling retries, fallbacks, and determinism in AI-driven steps

• Versioning and auditing AI-influenced decisions

• Evaluate build vs buy options for AI services (managed cloud services vs internal capabilities)

Essential Skills

• 11+ years of experience designing, architecting and developing scalable, enterprise platforms and applications

• Proficient in the following AWS services with hands on experience: EC2, Lambda, DDB and S3

• Proficient in at least one of the 2 tech stacks: TypeScript/Node.js or C#/.Net

• Experience designing APIs and service contracts

• Familiarity with event-driven architectures

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD and IaC pipelines

• Distributed systems and Microservices

• Exposure to AWS services like Kinesis, Firehose, Cloud watch, Aurora, Step Functions, CDK, Cloud Formation      

Education Qualifications:

• A degree in Engineering / Computer Science or a related discipline