Staff Software Engineer
Bengaluru · Staff/Principal
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Commonwealth Bank of Australia is the largest and number one bank in Australia, serving over 17 million customers. We maintain a high-trust brand reputation built on financial strength, innovation, and community impact. As of July 2025, CBA holds market cap of approximately USD 195.7 billion, ranking us among the top 100 most valuable companies globally. Our leadership in digital banking, customer safety, and responsible AI reflects our commitment to building a brighter future for all. Our values are reflected in our high-trust brand reputation. CBA is consistently ranked among Australia’s most valuable and trusted brands.
Job Title: Staff Software Engineer
Location: Bangalore - Manyata Tech Park
Business & Team: Retail Tech
Impact & Contribution:
We are seeking an accomplished Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across the design, development, delivery, and operation of modern, secure, cloud-native applications. You will remain hands-on while setting engineering direction across multiple teams, influencing architecture, improving engineering standards, and resolving complex system-wide challenges.
- Lead the technical design and delivery of scalable full-stack solutions using C#/.NET and Next.js/React.
- Shape architecture and engineering strategy across applications, APIs, integration patterns, and cloud platforms.
- Partner with engineering, product, platform, security, and business stakeholders to translate complex needs into pragmatic solutions.
- Raise engineering quality through reusable patterns, code reviews, test automation, observability, security, and operational excellence.
- Mentor senior engineers, facilitate technical decision-making, and build alignment across teams without relying on formal authority.
- Own complex production issues, drive root-cause analysis, and deliver systemic improvements that reduce recurrence and operational risk.
Essential Skills:
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience leading complex systems and influencing engineering outcomes across teams.
- Extensive experience designing, deploying, and operating cloud-native workloads on AWS and/or Microsoft Azure.
- Strong understanding of identity and access management, networking, secrets management, high availability, resilience, scalability, performance, and cost optimisation.
- Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Bicep, or equivalent
- Expert-level experience with C#, .NET, and ASP.NET Core for building secure, scalable APIs and backend services
- Strong hands-on experience with modern web development using Next.js, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Deep understanding of RESTful API design, distributed systems, integration patterns, asynchronous processing, and data modelling.
- Proven ability to define engineering standards, evaluate trade-offs, simplify complex designs, and guide solutions from discovery through production.
- Strong testing discipline across unit, integration, contract, end-to-end, and performance testing.
- Advanced debugging, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills across full-stack and distributed environments.
- Extensive experience designing, deploying, and operating cloud-native workloads on AWS and/or Microsoft Azure.
- AWS experience across services such as ECS/EKS, Lambda, Application Load Balancer, API Gateway, Aurora PostgreSQL/RDS, S3, IAM, and CloudWatch
Security & DevSecOps
- Strong understanding of secure software development, threat-aware design, secrets handling, dependency governance, and least-privilege access.
- Experience integrating security controls into CI/CD and remediating vulnerabilities using tools such as Snyk, Wiz, or equivalent.
Education/Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology
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