Job Description

eCommerce Payments | Payments & Acceptance | Business Banking Technology | Sydney

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Shape the future of digital commerce at scale

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- Build contemporary cloud-native products powering payment experiences for Australian businesses
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- Influence architecture, engineering standards and technical direction across a rapidly growing platform
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- Join a major transformation replacing legacy payment technology with modern in-house solutions
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At CommBank, we're building the future of digital commerce for Australian businesses.

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Following the acquisition of a leading payment service provider, we're investing heavily in the next generation of our eCommerce platform.

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Our mission is to simplify how merchants onboard, accept payments, process transactions and receive settlements through modern, scalable technology built in-house.

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As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll join one of our core engineering squads responsible for merchant onboarding or payment processing capabilities. You'll help design and build products that power the end-to-end eCommerce journey for some of Australia's largest businesses while influencing technical direction across a growing engineering organisation.

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This is an opportunity to work on a platform that is actively being transformed, replacing legacy vendor solutions with up-to-date cloud-native services and delivering new customer experiences at scale.

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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.

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You’ll join the Payments & Acceptance domain, a growing engineering organisation of more than 60 engineers responsible for critical eCommerce capabilities including:

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- Merchant onboarding and activation
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- Payment transaction processing
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- Settlement and reconciliation services
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- eCommerce platform services
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- Customer-facing merchant experiences
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With multiple strategic capabilities being launched throughout the year, you'll play a key role in shaping the architecture, engineering practices and customer outcomes of a platform that is still being built.

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- Lead the design and delivery of scalable, resilient and secure software solutions across our eCommerce payments platform
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- Build and evolve Java-based microservices supporting merchant onboarding, payment processing and settlement capabilities
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- Contribute across the technology stack, from backend services and APIs through to cloud infrastructure and customer experiences
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- Drive architectural decisions and influence engineering direction across squads
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- Champion engineering excellence through automated testing, CI/CD, observability and DevSecOps practices
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- Partner with product, architecture and business stakeholders to deliver meaningful customer outcomes
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- Mentor engineers and uplift technical capability across the team
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- Support production systems and continuously improve reliability, performance and operational excellence
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Bring deep software engineering expertise and a passion for building scalable, customer-focused platforms. You'll be comfortable leading complex technical initiatives while remaining hands-on and close to delivery.

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- Proven experience designing and delivering complex distributed systems at scale
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- Strong hands‑on software engineering capability and a passion for solving challenging technical problems
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- Experience building microservices architectures within cloud‑native environments
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- Strong architectural and systems design skills
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- A track record of mentoring engineers and influencing technical decision‑making
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- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
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- The ability to balance strategic thinking with hands‑on engineering delivery
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- A growth mindset and curiosity for emerging technologies and engineering practices
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Experience with some of the following technologies will help you succeed:

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- Java
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- Spring Boot
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- RESTful APIs
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- Microservices Architecture
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- Event-Driven Systems
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- Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
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- AWS
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- Kubernetes
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- Docker
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- Terraform and/or CloudFormation
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- CI/CD Pipelines
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- Automated Testing
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- Observability and Monitoring
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- DevSecOps Practices
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- Agile Software Delivery
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- React
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- TypeScript
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- Node.js
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- Next.js
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- Exposure to AI-powered development or operational tooling
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- Interest in applying AI to engineering and security challenges
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- Experience evaluating and adopting new technologies
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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 .

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