Staff Software Engineer - Gen AI
Commonwealth Bank of Australia Sydney, Australia
We are world leaders in AI ambition and shaping the future of banking. As part of Business Banking Technology, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, working with emerging technologies to support CommBank's strategy through world-class engineering capability.
See yourself in our team
Our mission is to deliver the next generation of AI-powered customer experiences and orchestrate self-service journeys. Through using multi-agent agentic systems that empower business customers to focus on what matters most: meaningful, value-enhancing customer interactions.
In this role
As an established Staff Software Engineer, you will be building features that are data-driven and customer-centric, fostering that culture within the Group. You will be working alongside CommBank's global engineering community in better utilising AI assisted tools and capabilities that build our business banking functionality.
Key responsibilities include:
- Experimenting with emerging AI assisted engineering tools and cloud services, providing feedback and insights from real world testing
- Contributing to architectural discussions and proposing improvements, role modelling standards and best practices
- Collaborating with the team to tackle complex technical problems, contributing to design and implementation to ensure quality engineering outcomes
- Delivering robust and reusable solutions that integrate seamlessly into other teams' workflows and products
- Translating requirements into engineering solutions, assisting in breaking down work and creating clarity for team members
- Actively participating in code reviews, maintaining high quality code bases and assisting in documentation for knowledge sharing
- Working on cross-functional projects, ensuring alignment and addressing inter-dependencies
- Coaching and mentoring junior members in the team
We are interested in hearing from people who have:
- Extensive experience in designing and implementing scalable, maintainable and reliable software solutions
- Working knowledge of AI/ML and Gen AI applications and how they can enhance software engineering processes to improve productivity
- Experience in developing applications using .NET framework, JavaScript frameworks (Next JS), APIs and databases such as Aurora
- Experience building RAGs using LlamaIndex, LangChain, or similar frameworks.
- Experience building Agentic AI systems using AutoGen, SemanticKernel, Pydantic, or similar frameworks is preferred
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, TypeScript or C#) and experience developing microservices architecture on cloud platforms (AWS & Azure)
- A keen interest in researching new AI tooling and you are a daily user of AI coding assistants such as Cursor, Continue, GitHub CoPilot, Aider, Cline, etc.
- Knowledge of or experience in Anthropic Claude, Llama, LiteLLM, Cursor, windsurf / Codeium, VO Vercel, Continue, Aider, Cline, Langchain, Langgraph, Hugging Face will be highly desirable
- Solid technical leadership skills and ability to collaborate with stakeholders to solve business-critical problems
- Ability to provide technical direction to teams, reviewing designs and code to ensure best practices
- Proficiency in agile development methodologies and iterative experimentation from ideation to prototype to pilot to product
Working with us:
At CommBank, we advocate and facilitate a culture of inclusion and respect, celebrating all cultures, abilities, genders, expressions of gender and sexual orientation. We're working hard to recruit people who represent the diversity of our customers and our society.
We're determined to make a real difference for Australia's first peoples. We encourage all interested applicants to apply.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is an equal opportunities employer.
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📌 Staff Software Engineer - Gen AI
🏢 Commbank
📍 City of Sydney