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About the Role
Shape the future of digital commerce at scale by building modern cloud-native products powering payment experiences for Australian businesses. Influence architecture, engineering standards, and technical direction across a rapidly growing platform. Join a major transformation replacing legacy payment technology with modern in-house solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of scalable, resilient and secure software solutions across our eCommerce payments platform
- Build and evolve Java-based microservices supporting merchant onboarding, payment processing and settlement capabilities
- Contribute across the technology stack, from backend services and APIs through to cloud infrastructure and customer experiences
- Drive architectural decisions and influence engineering direction across squads
- Champion engineering excellence through automated testing, CI/CD, observability and DevSecOps practices
- Partner with product, architecture and business stakeholders to deliver meaningful customer outcomes
- Mentor engineers and uplift technical capability across the team
- Support production systems and continuously improve reliability, performance and operational excellence
Requirements
- Bring deep software engineering expertise and a passion for building scalable, customer-focused platforms
- Comfortable leading complex technical initiatives while remaining hands-on and close to delivery
- Proven experience designing and delivering complex distributed systems at scale
- Strong hands-on software engineering capability and a passion for solving challenging technical problems
- Experience building microservices architectures within cloud-native environments
- Strong architectural and systems design skills
- A track record of mentoring engineers and influencing technical decision-making
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- The ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on engineering delivery
- A growth mindset and curiosity for emerging technologies and engineering practices
Skills
- Java
- Spring Boot
- RESTful APIs
- Microservices Architecture
- Event-Driven Systems
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Automated Testing
- Observability and Monitoring
- DevSecOps Practices
- Agile Software Delivery
- React
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- Next.js
- AI-powered development or operational tooling
- Applying AI to engineering and security challenges
- Evaluating and adopting new technologies
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Staff
About the Company
- At CommBank, we're building the future of digital commerce for Australian businesses.
- Following the acquisition of a leading payment service provider, we're investing heavily in the next generation of our eCommerce platform.
- Our mission is to simplify how merchants onboard, accept payments, process transactions and receive settlements through modern, scalable technology built in-house.
- Business Banking Technology executes the technology strategy across Business Banking through the application of modern technology, resilient platforms and engineering excellence to deliver valuable customer outcomes at speed and scale.
- You'll join the Payments & Acceptance domain, a growing engineering organisation of more than 60 engineers responsible for critical eCommerce capabilities including: Merchant onboarding and activation, Payment transaction processing, Settlement and reconciliation services, eCommerce platform services, Customer-facing merchant experiences.
Equal Opportunity
- At CommBank, we're committed to creating an accessible, inclusive and respectful workplace.
- If you require support or adjustments, please let us know.
- We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and we're particularly committed to making a positive difference for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
- For support please contact 1800 989 696.
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