Senior Software Engineer

See yourself in our Team  

Technology function at CBA is responsible for world leading application of technology across every aspect of CommBank to ensure the highest levels of customer service through world-class process excellence and technology innovation.  

CBA helps Australian businesses unlock cash tied up in unpaid invoices, enabled via a digital platform Waddle, which is powered by real time data. Our mission is to build a world class invoice finance platform to support Australian businesses with their working capital needs. 

Waddle is a cloud-based invoice finance platform which connects to accounting software in real time, powering CBA’s digital cash flow product, Stream Working Capital.  

Your Role  

Here, you will be creating a fantastic product for our users. We build our applications using Kotlin and Spring, and our front-end is built with React, and value engineers with the knowledge of how to write fast, secure and scalable software.

You will be working in a team responsible for iterating on our product, taking initiatives (both product-focused and technical) from problem analysis all the way through to deployment. 

 

One day you'll be running a kick-off session with our product owner and designers, the next day you will be pushing code to production. Collaboration is key to our success, so open and honest communication is essential. On the technical side, you will be deploying load-balanced containers, so an understanding of concurrent database access and cluster safe design is important. 

Other responsibilities will include :

• Produce robust, high quality, self-healing and scalable software that brings value to our customers
• Relentlessly identify opportunities to automate any manual processes 
• Contribute to technical solution designs that embrace a customer-first approach 
• Design and automate technical testing activities that effectively reveal product quality across a range of risk areas and acceptance criteria, written in a de-coupled way that allows future refactoring
• Proactively identify opportunities to increase test effectiveness 
• Work with your team and customers to understand business problems, and discover solutions 
• Maintain and monitor delivery processes in a DevSecOps first manner, ensuring the software delivered continues to run securely and reliably
• Increase knowledge and ability to deliver software leveraging infrastructure as code
• Actively participate and provide leadership in incident responses, where needed, including triage, investigation and resolution of development and production issues, enabled by quickly diagnosing the root cause of the issue
• Leverage AI tools to augment the delivery process and look for opportunities to incorporate AI into the product and lifecycle
• Provide technical mentoring with your delivery team and/or the wider engineering community 
• Provide and proactively seek timely and insightful feedback to your engineering colleagues
  
  

 

Your Skills And Experiences   

• Excellent communication and business partnering skills 
• A demonstrated track record of building innovative, quality software with intuitive user experiences using a wide range of internet-based technologies
• A love of rapidly building and shipping great SaaS products using modern, iterative methods 
• Ownership and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment including juggling several changing priorities
• Strong experience with AWS services and architectures including Serverless 
• Strong experience in Java, Kotlin, Spring, Typescript, JavaScript and ReactJS 
• Experienced in modern source code control and collaboration tools like GitHub
• Experience working in an agile environment and in the use of work tracking tools such as JIRA
• Knowledge of invoice financing or accounting and explore to building financial services systems is a bonus 
  
  

Working with us

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

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month connecting in our Sydney 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.

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you! Apply now! 

If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.

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