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:

The Commonwealth Bank is the leading financial institution in Australia and provides integrated financial services.

The role sits within the Bankwest Technology division. Bankwest is a subsidiary of The Commonwealth Bank, and the Bankwest Technology division (BWT) is accountable for maintaining system resilience and supporting the delivery of our bold technology strategy at pace and scale.

Bankwest Technology is made up of the following areas of expertise

Impact & contribution:

• Empathetic and self-aware. You think and care deeply about how you might interact with your team, stakeholders and customers
• A Mentor, harboring a passion to nurture, grow and influence those around you to think differently and always maintain a growth mindset
• Innovative. You continually seek to improve the status quo for our customers. You inspire your team to do the same and remain resilient through change
• Promoting quality and delivering at pace through the maximization of automation is one of the key focuses of the role
• Ownership, you take responsibility for the software design, engineering processes and quality standards of yours as well as your team members as you work in a collaborative environment.

Roles & responsibilities:

• Proven track record of Agile delivery including leading and working on a project from pre-inception through to business and technical delivery, including the support and maintenance of delivered systems
• Ability to lead, direct, coach and guide software developers
• Driving pragmatic and fit for purpose solutions of high technical quality. Act as "Quality Advocate" for the squad, encourage critical thinking mindset and drive prevention of defects over detection of defect
• Identify, define, document and advocate for the most appropriate approaches to achieve stated business goals objectives and deliver the product vision, whilst remaining aligned with organizational target architectures and roadmaps
• Provide tools, expertise, and knowledge to help squad gain a shared understanding of outcome and shared ownership of quality
• Pro-actively looking for ways to provide faster feedback, including uplift in test automation maturity in the squad
• Support the team in delivering quality outcomes within committed time frames
• Follow secure code practice.

Essential skills:

Minimum 12-15 years of experience with expert level knowledge, with more than 2 years technical leadership experience, working with the following languages

• .NET (Core & Framework)
• Front End Web Development (Angular preferred)
• IDEs (Visual Studio, Android Studio & XCode)
• CI/CD and DevOps
• Automated Testing frameworks such as Selenium, Jest, Cypress (Knowledge on Automation testing Preferred)
• Source Control systems such as Git
• Build & Deployment tools such as TeamCity, Octopus Deploy
• Database – SQL, PL/SQL
• Monitoring tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics
• REST and API Development
• TDD and BDD
• Microservices Architecture
• Secure Coding Practices

Education Qualification:

Bachelor’s degree/master’s degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology