Staff Software Engineer (Lead Fullstack .Net Developer)

• You are passionate, driven, flexible and collaborative

• We are high performing engineers pushing the boundaries of software engineering

• Together we will build tomorrow’s bank today, using world-leading technology and innovation

Do work that matters

CommBank is recognized as leading the industry in IT and operations with its world-class platforms and processes, agile IT infrastructure, and innovation in everything from payments to internet banking and mobile apps.  

Business Banking Technology has a vision of becoming Australia’s leading digital business bank, empowering businesses and people to succeed with tomorrow’s technology. We work hand-in-hand with our business colleagues to solve problems with customer centricity and technical innovation, cultivating a world-class empowered team who build technology solutions for the future.

See yourself in our team

As a Staff Software engineer, you will be part of a squad within the Highvalue and International Payments crew. You will be working with engineers on uplifting business capabilities and modernise our tech stack. We offer regular opportunities to work on some of the finest IT systems in Australia, as well as opportunity to develop careers across different functions and teams within the wider Bank. 

You'll be hands-on coding and be responsible for shaping the evolution of this system by designing and developing micro services, data access layers, REST API(s), and writing integration services for third-party API consumption, manage risk with safe deployments and automated testing, as well as learning more about back-end engineering. You'll also be invited to join our regular engineering guilds and provide technical guidance to the junior members of the team.

We’re interested in hearing from people who

• Are passionate about building developing and deploying high quality software solutions.

• Can own and develop technical strategy and guidance, overseeing medium to complex engineering initiatives.

• Can utilise strong understanding of core business and technical strategies to deliver best business outcomes through technology.

• Can provide thought leadership across projects and delivery teams.

• Can take responsibility for nominated technical assets related to areas of expertise including roadmaps and technical direction.

• Have the ability to collaborate, present ideas, perform reviews and mentor other junior engineers.

Tech Skills

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team:

• Hands-on experience in developing backend applications using C# .NET Core, ASP.NET, MVC, REST APIs and WebAPI

• Demonstrated knowledge of micro services and REST API Integration

• Ability to create database designs and database programming for both relational and NoSQL databases (e.g. MSSQL, Oracle, Aurora)

• Modern Javascript frameworks (React) and Scripting languages – Javascript, Typescript, HTML/CSS, JQuery.

• Source code control, build and deployment tools (CI/CD) – GitHub, TeamCity, Octopus deploy.

• Cloud Experience on AWS (CloudFormation, Code Pipeline etc.) or Azure DevOps.

• Experience with event driven architecture and kafka.

• Understanding of monitoring tools like splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana.

• Build and hosting technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker) – Desirable

• Be able to support and resolve issues in tech stacks that run in .NET webservices.

• Knowledge of security best practices and principles.

Working with us

Whether you're passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with CommBank is for you. Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations.

Here, you’ll thrive. You’ll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We’re hiring engineers from across all of Australia and have opened technology hubs in Melbourne and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too.  

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time each month connecting in office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work in the role you’re interested in.

If this sounds like the role for you then we would love to hear from you. Apply today!

• You are a Chief SRE who’s passionate about improving the reliability and operability of mission-critical services

• We are solving the biggest puzzles in the Australian financial services industry  

• Together we’ll build tomorrow's bank, using world-leading engineering, technology & innovation  

Do work that matters

We’re accelerating our digital strategy with an ambition to provide customers with one of the best digital experiences of any company globally. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is key to us achieving this goal. As part of the team, You’ll ensure that our systems maintain the highest standards of reliability for our customers, which enables seamless execution of our award-winning banking apps.

See yourself in our team

Be part of a team excelling in DevOps automation, where we’re continuously modernising both our infrastructure and software stacks using cutting-edge tools and technologies.

You’ll thrive in a continuous iterative learning environment that’s constantly uplifting our customer’s experiences.

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month connecting in office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work for you.

As a Chief Engineer in our SRE team, you’ll be a technical leader driving through leadership, designing and implementing largve scale solutions, as well as influencing and engaging the Organisation’s senior stakeholders on modern best practices for improving reliability through the DevOps lifecycle.

• As a matured Big Thinker, you’ll work closely with senior leaders on the strategic development of the SRE practice.

• Creating, developing, installing and implementing tools required to support the operational management (including security) of software applications and systems

• Testing, debugging, diagnosing and correcting errors and faults in an applications programming language within established testing protocols, guidelines and quality standards to ensure programs and applications including technical security controls perform to specification

• Identifying technology limitations and deficiencies in existing systems and associated processes, procedures and methods, and using software engineering to develop scalable and sustainable improvements

• Partner with product and engineering stakeholders at all the different levels to influence and educate our awesome builder and operational teams on SRE philosophy, principles, practices, and benefits from Engineer to EGM Levels

• Be an ambassador for modern engineering and reliability practices, sharing information and supporting others in their learning, and building strong and energetic team cultures.

• Take great delight in designing, building, and delivering infrastructure, code, or services to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of our internal or customer-facing services

• You’ll enjoy every opportunity to perform deep dives into both systemic and latent reliability issues; partnering with software and systems engineers across the organization to produce and roll out fixes.

• Provide leadership to mentor other SREs, sharing your best practices and hard-earned learnings for tackling issues across the entire stack; hardware, software, application, and network

We are interested in hearing from people who have extensive experience in:

• A Chief-Level Software Engineering role, partnering with senior stakeholders and leading a culture of data-driven reliability, monitoring and automation aligned to SRE principles

• Designing, developing, testing and supporting applications and systems

• Managing and scaling distributed systems in a public, private or hybrid cloud environment

• Creating and developing tools required to support the operational management (including security) of software applications and systems

• Identifying technology limitations and deficiencies in existing systems and associated processes, procedures and methods, and using software engineering to develop scalable and sustainable improvements

• High-volume or critical production service environment.

• Designing, developing and releasing code in one or more languages like Go, Python, .Net, or Java. · Previous SRE or DevOps experience

Tech skills    

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team;   

• 10+ years in software engineering, expert in at least one Programming language (e.g., Golang, Python)

• Strong experience with modern software development practices using tools such as git for source control, and CI/CD tools such as TeamCity, Jenkins, Octopus Deploy or similar; Strong public cloud experience in AWS , GCP or Azure

• Experience leading teams of engineers driving outcomes using observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, Splunk, AppDynamics,

• Extensive and in-depth knowledge of Linux internals, networking, containers, and troubleshooting

• Experience in applying SRE Practices in large organisations and excellent Communication and Problem-Solving skills

Working with us: 

Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with CommBank is for you.   

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. One where we’re driven by our values, and supported to share ideas, initiatives, and energy. One where making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day.  

Here, you’ll thrive. You’ll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We’re hiring engineers from across Australia and have opened technology hubs in Melbourne and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too.  

If this sounds like the role for you then we would love to hear from you. Apply today!