Staff Software Engineer- Java & Kafka

We are building tomorrow’s bank of today, which means we need world class Engineers to help us modernise and rebuild our legacy monoliths over the coming years. We are looking for our very best Engineers to join the Financial Crime Domain which is a multi-year program prioritised for ramp up in FY25 across various domains.  

The Strategic CLM team is vital in Financial Crime, managing KYC refresh for customers to ensure CommBank's success. We work to improve and maintain high standards of customer journey security, keeping data safe.

We are seeking an experienced engineer to join our team in developing DevOps solutions within a streaming / eventing technology environment. This team is focused on delivering a self-service offering as part of our Financial Crime – Strategic CLM. This is a high impact role where you will be directly working with Senior Leaders.  You will be working in a team of highly capable data, backend, frontend engineers and will play an active role in mentoring the team and managing stakeholders.

Here, you’ll get to turn your passion into reality, working with new technology on state-of-the-art projects to enable a seamless and unrivalled customer experience.

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

• Have a passion for designing, developing and deploying high quality software solutions and System Design.
• Are familiar with the Full Cycle model, where engineers are involved in Design, Build, Challenge and Run
• Contributes to a culture where quality, excellence and openness are championed.
• Have a natural drive to educate, communicate and positively influence various stakeholder groups including high level executives.
• Can coach & mentor junior engineers, share knowledge to uplift and improve software development practices.
• Can perform code quality control through peer programming, code review and automated pipeline release management.

Tech skills:

• Hands-on experience with Kafka
• Hands-on full-cycle engineering experience (design, build, challenge & run) using Java.
• Added advantage experience with any No SQL
• Hands-on experience working with Microservices in Production
• Good knowledge and experience of building Event Driven Architectures
• Experience with GitHub Actions or similar CI solution
• Experience with Docker and Docker-compose
• Mentored other developers or Lead projects to successful completion
• Experience writing automated API/Integration tests
• Experience working with one of the clouds - AWS, GCP or Azure
• Experience working with Observability solutions like Open telemetry, Grafana or Prometheus

If this sounds like you, apply today!

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month.