Senior Software Engineer – AI Powered Engineering Full-time

• You are passionate about AI and working to deliver better outcomes for CBA’s customers, employees and the wider community
• We are world leaders in AI ambition
• Together, we will innovate the future of banking with state-of-the-art AI Powered Engineering solutions

Your business

The CIO for Technology team ensures that CommBank has a world-class engineering capability and is at the forefront of technology, using innovative and emerging technology to help our customer and support our Group Strategy.

We work hard to ensure that best practice, whether inside CommBank or outside in the broader technology ecosystem, is discovered, sheltered, nurtured, and spread to wherever else it can drive the most benefit for the Group and our customers.

We are actively involved in the technology community, contributing to education programs, innovation, research, and partnerships that will set Australia up for success as the economy transitions to a more digital future.

Do work that matters

The CIO for Technology team is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our new AI Powered Engineering function dedicated to working with Commonwealth Bank’s global engineering community to use AI assisted tools and capabilities in ways that improve the engineering experience and productivity.

Role responsibilities:

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies (e.g. style guidelines, checking code for accuracy, testability, and efficiency)
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analysing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Conduct self-driven research on emerging AI assisted tools and capabilities.

We are interested in hearing from people who have:

• Hands-on experience in building, deploying, and maintaining robust software solutions
• Familiarity with AI/ML and Gen AI tools and frameworks, and an understanding of their potential in streamlining development processes
• A solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including the SDLC, IaC, CI/CD pipelines and testing practice
• The ability to take ownership of complex tasks, break them down into actionable steps, and deliver results
• Advanced programming skills in languages such as Python, TypeScript, JavaScript or C#
• Commercial or side project experience in one or more of the following technologies or related technologies: Anthropic Claude, Llama, LiteLLM, Cursor, windsurf / Codeium, VO Vercel, Continue, Aider, Cline
• 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.
• A good understanding and hands on experience with API development and microservices architecture
• Proficiency in collaborative development practices and agile methodologies
• Proficiency in cloud platforms – AWS and Microsoft Azure
• Experience with containerisation tools
• Hands on experience with CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments (including experience with GitHub Actions and other infrastructure-as-code platforms)
• Familiarity with Agile work management tools (eg. Jira and Confluence)

Working with us

Please include a cover letter with your application that highlights how your experience, through personal or work projects, aligns with the requirements of the role and demonstrates your proficiency in AI-powered engineering. Referencing the specified tools, or similar technologies that you have used is recommended.

At CBA you’ll thrive be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities.

Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career here is for you

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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