The Principal Software Engineer will lead the design and implementation of innovative technical solutions, mentor teams, and focus on security and risk management. Responsibilities include shaping the digital platform, leading complex developments, and ensuring high-quality standards across distributed systems.
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: Principal Software EngineerLocation: Bangalore-Manyata Tech ParkBusiness & Team: This role is part of the Service Crew within ITB Domain in Institutional Banking, where we deliver cutting-edge technology solutions that serve business & institutional customers across our relationship managed customer segments of the bank. Our mission is to empower businesses to thrive using the technology of tomorrow. By leveraging digital tools, our Crew aims to elevate the customer experience and deliver exceptional products and services.Impact & Contribution: As a Principal Engineer, you will play a pivotal role within our team. You’ll bring your expertise in technology and Digital knowledge to define technical strategies and design innovative solutions for complex challenges within a business unit. Your approach will integrate a strong focus on risk management and security from the earliest stages of development. Additionally, you’ll mentor and guide engineers, fostering excellence in their craft and enabling them to deliver world-class applications.
Roles & Responsibilities:Advertising End Date: 30/01/2026
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Will shape the future of our digital platform while focusing on designing, developing, and deploying innovative technology solutions that will enable us to build tomorrow's bank today.
- Use skills to lead our engineers in implementing complex technical solutions that may include SaaS and cloud-based environment experience. You’ll possess a strong risk mindset in ensuring that appropriate cyber security controls are implemented and play a significant mentoring role in providing technical assistance to the engineers in the team.
- Enjoy and have demonstrable experience building enterprise software
- Have a broad technology background with engineering as a core competency
- Have experience building and leading teams through complex multi year builds ideally gained in a similar role within an enterprise environment or as a CTO in an ASX 200 organisation or scaleup
- Have real world experience of building and leading teams who operate in the DevSecOps model.
- Have experience of addressing Tech Debt using a commercially focused and pragmatic approach.
- Have identified, gained support and ensured execution of technical direction and strategy
- Can design and implement solutions to complex problems, including onboarding and migrating to new tooling as well as removing obsolete systems and code.
- Encourages risk-taking and constructively challenges the status quo while influencing stakeholders and building diverse and inclusive teams.
- 18+ years of relevant hands on work experience in software development
- Thorough understanding of large-scale distributed systems, solution design and architecture principles
- Ability to design solutions to meet the highest possible quality standards while simultaneously balancing security, performance, availability, and maintainability concerns
- Developing 3-tier application both on-premises and on cloud covering: Frontend: React and Redux (preferred) or Angular.
- Backend: .Net Core (preferred), C#., Kafka, JavaScript
- APIs & Database: SQL and NoSQL experience (both admin and usage).
- Microservices design and implementation of highly scalable APIs. Solid technical background in building and designing data integration, microservices and workflow automation on cloud platforms using AWS
- Scripting/programming languages (i.e., JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Python).
- Expertise in setting up DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, logging and monitoring tools (TeamCity, Octopus, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Artifactory, Snyk and SonarQube)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
- Mentoring and coaching other Engineers.
- Configuration Management.
- Containerisation.
- Experience with AI engineering tools and frameworks
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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Top Skills
.Net Core
Angular
Artifactory
AWS
C#
CloudFormation
Git
Github Actions
Go
JavaScript
Kafka
NoSQL
Octopus
Python
React
Redux
Snyk
Sonarqube
SQL
Teamcity
Terraform
Typescript
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