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 – Gen AI
Location: Bangalore-Manyata Tech Park

Business & Team:  The Business Banking Technology team ensures that CommBank has a world-class engineering capability and is at the forefront of technology, using innovative and emerging technology to help our customers and support our Group Strategy.

Impact &contribution:  Apply core concepts, technology, and domain expertise to effectively develop software solutions to meet business needs. You will contribute to the financial well-being of our customers by ensuring that our team builds the best solutions possible using modern development practices that ensure both functional and non-functional needs are met. If you have a history of building a culture of empowerment and know what it takes to be a force multiplier within a large organization then you’re the kind of person, we are looking for.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with the team to tackle complex technical problems, contributing to design and implementation to ensure quality engineering outcomes

• Translating requirements into engineering solutions, assisting in breaking down work and creating clarity for team members

• Experimenting with emerging AI assisted engineering tools and cloud services, providing feedback and insights from real world testing

• Delivering robust and reusable solutions that integrate seamlessly into other teams’ workflows and products

• Contributing to architectural discussions and propose improvements, role modelling standards and best practices

• Actively participating in code reviews, maintain high quality code bases and assist in documentation for knowledge sharing

• Work on cross-functional projects, ensuring alignment and addressing inter-dependencies

• Coaching and mentoring junior members in the team

Essential Skills:

• Minimum exp of 12+ yrs

• Extensive experience in designing and implementing scalable, maintainable and reliable software solutions

• Working knowledge of AI/ML and Gen AI applications and how they can enhance software engineering processes to improve productivity

• Experience building RAGs using LlamaIndex, LangChain, or similar frameworks. 

• Experience building Agentic AI systems using AutoGen, SemanticKernel, Pydantic, or similar frameworks is preferred

• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, TypeScript or C#) and experience developing microservices architecture on cloud platforms (AWS & Azure)

• A keen interest in researching new AI tooling and you are a daily user of AI coding assistants such as Cursor, Continue, GitHub CoPilot, Aider, Cline, etc. 

• Knowledge of or experience in Anthropic Claude, Llama, LiteLLM, Cursor, windsurf / Codeium, VO Vercel, Continue, Aider, Cline, Langchain, Langgraph, Hugging Face will be highly desirable

• Strong technical leadership skills and ability to collaborate with stakeholders to solve business-critical problems

• Ability to provide technical direction to teams, reviewing designs and code to ensure best practices

• Proficiency in agile development methodologies and iterative experimentation from ideation to prototype to pilot to product

Education Qualification: Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology