We're building tomorrow's bank today!
Do work that matters As a Staff Software Engineer role at the core of Consumer Finance, you will help build, simplify and modernise the products, processes and infrastructure that underpin CBAs cards offering.
You will work on critical capabilities such as credit card Netbank next and commsee 2.0, transforming the whole user experience and cards journey.
You'll design and build scalable applications on AWS, while delivering modern and intuitive front end using TypeScript and Next.js, including emerging AI-powered experiences.
This role goes beyond hands-on delivery into technical leadership and strategic influence.
You'll help shape the engineering roadmap, drive technical uplift across squads, and raise standards in cloud-native design, full‐stack engineering and modern development practices.
Partnering closely with senior and executive leaders, you'll turn strategy into outcomes while mentoring engineers and contractors, and growing capability across the crew.
The work is rapid paced, highly collaborative and constantly evolving, with real customer impact at scale.
If you're motivated by solving complex problems and building technology people rely on daily, this is a role where your expertise truly matters.
See yourself in our team The Consumer Cards Transformation crew is a tight‐knit, highly technical group within CBA's broader Consumer Finance Domain, focused on building and evolving our Consumer card products and overall platform.
This chapter owns critical card platforms and underlying BIAN based service domain APIs, that process millions of transactions every day,



operating at scale, under constant demand and with zero tolerance for failure.
The team works end‐to‐end across modern, cloud‐based systems, covering card authorisation, clearing, cards administration and operation and cards inquiry, ensuring customers can use their cards for their day-to-day needs.
We're interested in hearing from people who Operate as a Staff Software Engineer (Full Stack) with full‐cycle, end‐to‐end ownership across design, build, run and optimisation with a "build and own it" attitude Act as a technical SME and engineering leader, shaping long‐term technical strategy while remaining deeply hands‐on Design, build and operate robust, scalable, cloud‐native solutions using Next.js, Typescript, GraphQL, .
NET, C#, AWS Influence and evolve platform architecture, including microservices, event‐driven integrations and cloud‐native deployment patterns Champion engineering standards and best practices across software engineering processes Lead high‐quality delivery through CI/CD, test automation, observability and strong DevSecOps practices Bring a strong AI enablement mindset, with hands‐on exposure to AI‐assisted tooling and a clear drive to continuously upskill Apply AI‐assisted development and emerging agentic patterns to lift developer productivity and improve system design Tech skills We don't expect you to know everything, but experience in several of the following areas will set you up for success: Front End: Hands on Next.js (must have), typescript Back End: C#, .
NET, PostgreSQL or other relational databases, REST APIs API Design

📌 Staff Software Engineer - Consumer Cards (Sydney)
🏢 Commonwealth Bank
📍 Sydney