Software Engineer (cba)

Job Description

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: Software Engineer
Location: Bangalore-Manyata Tech Park

The Commonwealth Bank is the leading financial institution in Australia and provides integrated financial services. 

The role sits within the Bankwest Technology division.  Bankwest is a subsidiary of The Commonwealth Bank, and the Bankwest Technology division (BWT) is accountable for maintaining system resilience and supporting the delivery of our bold technology strategy at pace and scale. 

Bankwest Technology consists of Platforms and Chapters underpinned by areas of expertise that manage Bankwest technology, applications and systems to support the Bankwest business.  Bankwest Technology is located primarily in Bankwest Place in Perth, WA and has a total approx. 650 employees.  

Bankwest Technology is made up of the following areas of expertise 

• Technology Programs 
• Engineering and Automation 
• Strategy & Agility 
• GTS Technology Platforms and Service Management 
• Chief Technology Office 
• Risk and Control Advisory and Delivery 

Impact &contribution:

As a Software Engineer, you are:  

• Empathetic and self-aware. You think and care deeply about how you might interact with your team, stakeholders and customers.
• A Mentor, harboring a passion to nurture, grow and influence those around you to think differently and always maintain a growth mindset.  
• Innovative. You continually seek to improve the status quo for our customers. You inspire your team to do the same and remain resilient through change.  
• Promoting quality and delivering at pace through the maximization of automation is one of the key focus area of the role.  
• Risk aware: You proactively identify and understand, openly discuss and act on current and future risks.

Roles & responsibilities:

As a Software Engineer,  

• Apply the principles of design, development, testing, deployment, support, and evaluation.
• Develop and deploy high quality software solutions with comprehensive test coverage without supervision.
• Analyse business objectives and translate requirements to technical implementation components.
• Design and build programs or application features meeting business objective and requirements.
• Provide accurate estimates for the development effort for new features.
• Provide technical support and assistance to other non-technical members of the team.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to support and technical troubleshooting activity.
• Identify and contribute code-level changes which improve the reliability of application and infrastructure services that our builder and operational teams are accountable for.
• Identify and contribute robust, high-quality code-level changes to the processes and tooling used by our builder and operational teams, improving the observability of the services which they are accountable for.
• Identify and contribute code-level changes which drive down the operational toil and reduce the technical debt associated with the services that a team is accountable for.
• Make code-level contributions to the development and support of frameworks and tooling which teams across the Group can leverage to accelerate and standardise the adoption of SRE.
• Be a passionate advocate for SRE principles and practices at a Chapter level by talking at internal meetups, sharing learnings at brown bags, or publishing technical blog posts.
• Continue the development of our world-class engineering team by mentoring peers on SRE best practices.

Essential skills:

Minimum 4 to 8 years of experience with expert level knowledge, working with the following languages.

• C# - .NET Framework and .NET Core
• REST and API Development
• Front End Web Development (Angular preferred - only for Full stack.
• Experience working with the following Tools:
• IDEs (Visual Studio Code)
• Unit Testing
• Source Control systems such as Git
• Build & Deployment tools such as TeamCity, Octopus Deploy
• Monitoring tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics
• Database such as Oracle, MySQL etc.
• Awareness of the following Software Development Concepts:
• Cl/CD and DevOps
• TDD and BOD
• Micro-services Architecture
• Secure Coding Practices

Education Qualification: Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology.