Organization:
At CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in other people’s financial wellbeing. Our focus is to help people and businesses move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets, and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organisation, your initiative, talent, ideas, and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can achieve great things.
Job Title: Principal Software Engineer
Location: Bangalore
Business & Team:
Business Banking Technology executes the Technology Strategy across Business Banking through world-leading application of technology and operations. We partner closely with the business to solve real-world problems using data and AI-driven insights, resilient platforms and modern engineering practices, delivering customer value at speed and scale.
You'll provide technical leadership across a domain responsible for:
CRM and customer engagement platforms
Banker experience and workbench capabilities
Workflow and orchestration services
AI-assisted customer and colleague experiences
Shared platform services supporting Business Banking journeys
Working closely with engineers, architects, product leaders, delivery teams and business stakeholders, you'll help shape platform strategy while lifting engineering capability across the organisation.
Impact & Contribution:
Apply advanced technical knowledge to deliver key strategic solutions which addresses business problems.
You will contribute to building a brighter future for our customers by ensuring that our team builds the best solutions possible using modern development practices that ensure both functional and non-functional needs are met.
If you have a history of building a culture of empowerment and know what it takes to be a force multiplier within a large organization, then you’re the kind of person we are looking for.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Lead the design, evolution and delivery of scalable, resilient platforms supporting customer and banker experiences.
Drive architecture and engineering decisions across multiple squads and technology domains.
Establish reusable engineering patterns, frameworks and standards that improve delivery speed and quality.
Shape platform strategy across cloud, APIs, customer engagement services, workflow orchestration and AI-enabled capabilities.
Champion modern engineering practices including DevSecOps, observability, CI/CD and automated testing.
Partner with product, architecture, risk and business stakeholders to deliver meaningful customer and business outcomes.
Ensure security, privacy, operational resilience and responsible AI principles are embedded into platform design and delivery.
Mentor engineers, influence technical strategy and foster a culture of engineering excellence.
We're interested in hearing from people who have
Experience operating as a Principal Engineer, Lead Engineer or senior technical leader within complex enterprise environments.
A strong track record designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems and platform capabilities.
Strong engineering judgement with the ability to balance strategic thinking and hands-on technical leadership.
Experience leading architecture decisions across cloud-native, API-driven or customer-facing platforms.
The ability to influence senior stakeholders across engineering, product, architecture, risk and business teams.
Experience establishing engineering standards, reusable patterns and platform strategies across multiple teams.
Strong mentoring and coaching capability, with a passion for growing engineering talent.
Curiosity and enthusiasm for AI-enabled customer experiences, automation and modern digital platforms.
Essential Skills:
Minimum exp of 15+ yrs extensive experience in designing and implementing scalable, maintainable and reliable software solutions
Engineering & Architecture
Python, Java, .NET, TypeScript, Go or similar modern software…