Staff Software Engineer – Lead Software Engineer

Commonwealth Bank

. Engineer production services, APIs, data integrations and interfaces supporting financial-crime detection and investigation .

Posted 11/11/2026full-timeMelbourne • AustraliaSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in engineering production services and APIs with a strong focus on security, reliability, and observability. Proficient in modern programming languages and cloud-native technologies, with a commitment to mentoring and elevating engineering standards.

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Backend Services DevelopmentAPI Design and IntegrationCI/CD Pipeline ManagementCloud-Native DeliveryAI-Enabled Systems Engineering

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Hard Skills

AlgorithmsData StructuresConcurrencySystem DesignJavaKotlinGoPythonReactTypeScript

Soft Skills

CollaborationMentoringCode ReviewTechnical ReasoningDesign Decision Making

Tools & Technologies

AWSKubernetesDockerGitHub ActionsArgo CDKafkaGrafanaPrometheus

Industry Keywords

Financial-Crime DetectionData IntegrationProduction ObservabilitySecurity ControlsRegulatory Compliance

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDockerGrafanaJavaKafkaKotlinKubernetesPrometheusPythonReactTypeScriptGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Engineer production services, APIs, data integrations and interfaces supporting financial-crime detection and investigation
Work across the full product surface and solve complex engineering problems
Influence design decisions and uplift engineering capability
Modernise shared platforms through reuse and standardisation
Reduce duplication and retire legacy solutions where appropriate
Build reliable AI and agentic capabilities that augment human decisions with appropriate controls
Design, build and operate production services and APIs with clear contracts and integration boundaries
Contribute to architecture, refactoring, modularisation and performance improvements
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and progressive delivery practices
Establish reliability and observability through dashboards, alerting, service-level objectives and operational ownership
Engineer secure AI and agentic features, including orchestration, evaluation and guardrails
Embed security, privacy, reliability and regulatory controls into design and delivery
Raise engineering standards through code reviews, pairing and clear technical reasoning
Mentor and support other engineers

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong foundations in algorithms, data structures, concurrency and system design
Experience across backend services, APIs and data integration
Openness to contributing to internal user interfaces when required
Experience designing and building services using a modern typed language such as Java, Kotlin, Go or Python, or comparable technologies
Full-stack capability, including React and TypeScript or equivalent technologies, and backend-for-frontend layers
Understanding of cloud-native delivery, containers, automated pipelines and production observability
Platform mindset focused on reusing proven capabilities, reducing duplication and simplifying technology estates
Ability to build security, privacy, reliability and risk controls into solutions from the outset
Ability to learn new languages, frameworks and tools according to problem needs
Collaboration, mentoring, code review and well-reasoned design decision skills
Exposure to AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, React, TypeScript, Kafka, Grafana or Prometheus
Experience building or operating AI-enabled systems, including model integration, orchestration, evaluation and guardrails, valuable
Equivalent tools and transferable experience welcomed

Benefits

Comp & perks

Accessible, inclusive and respectful workplace
Workplace support or adjustments for accessibility needs
Career development opportunity
Support for internal Commonwealth Bank Group employees through Sidekick