Staff 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 customers 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.

Do work that matters

The CIO for Technology team is seeking an experienced Staff 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. You will be working with Commbank’s top engineers and AI experts to drive training, culture and experimentation so that all of our engineers are making the best use of the emerging AI technologies that make them happier and more productive.

Role responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the team to tackle complex technical problems, contributing to design and implementation to ensure quality engineering outcomes.
• Translate requirements into engineering solutions, assisting in breaking down work and creating clarity for team members.
• Experiment with emerging AI assisted engineering tools and capabilities, providing feedback and insights from real world testing.
• Deliver robust and reusable solutions that integrate seamlessly into other teams’ workflows and products.
• Support a customer centric approach, doing work that aligns with user needs and the organisation’s goals.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and propose improvements, role modelling standards and best practices.
• Actively participate in code reviews, maintain high quality code bases and assist in documentation for knowledge sharing.
• Work on cross-functional projects, ensuring alignment and addressing inter-dependencies.
• Provide guidance and support to junior engineers and squad members.

We are interested in hearing from people who have:

• Extensive experience in designing and implementing scalable, maintainable and reliable software solutions
• Working knowledge of AI/ML and Gen AI applications and how they can enhance software engineering processes to improve productivity
• You will have experience building RAGs using LlamaIndex, LangChain, or similar frameworks.
• Preferably have experience building Agentic AI systems using AutoGen, CrewAI, Pydantic, or similar frameworks
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, TypeScript or C#) and experience developing microservices architecture on cloud platforms (AWS & Azure)
• 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.
• Knowledge of or experience in Anthropic Claude, Llama, LiteLLM, Cursor, windsurf / Codeium, VO Vercel, Continue, Aider, Cline, Langchain, Langgraph, Hugging Face will be highly desirable
• Strong technical leadership skills and ability to collaborate with stakeholders to solve business-critical problems
• Ability to provide technical direction to teams, reviewing designs and code to ensure best practices
• Proficiency in agile development methodologies and iterative experimentation from ideation to prototype to pilot to product

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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