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Principal Software Engineer – Backend Platforms & Service Domains

Commonwealth Bank

Melbourne

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Principal Software Engineer role in the Digital & Assisted Lending Crew within Business Banking Technology, shaping backend platforms and service domains for lending at scale. Requires deep experience in large-scale distributed systems, AWS, microservices, and event-driven architectures, with a focus on engineering excellence and leadership.

AI-enabledHybridFull-timePrincipalC#.NET Core

Principal Software Engineer – Backend Platforms & Service Domains

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AI-enabledHybridFull-timePrincipalC#

Salary

Not specified

Work Location

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, AU

Work Model

Hybrid

Employment Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Principal

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)

C#.NET CorePythonJavaReactNext.jsDistributed SystemsMicroservicesDomain-Driven DesignEvent-Driven ArchitectureAWSServerlessREST APIsGraphQLCloudFormationCDKDockerKubernetesCI/CDGitHub ActionsPrometheusGrafanaELK StackDatadogTDDJMeterSeleniumPostmanSecure SDLCSonarQubeSnykOWASP Security ControlsApache KafkaEventBridgeSNSSQSClaude CodeCodexCursorHarness EngineeringSpec-Driven DevelopmentOraclePostgreSQLAWS Aurora

Soft Skills

LeadershipMentoringCommunicationProblem SolvingStrategic ThinkingOwnershipAccountabilityContinuous Improvement

Key Responsibilities

•Provide strategic and technical leadership across platform architecture, APIs, integrations, workflow orchestration and distributed systems.
•Shape backend platforms, service domains and digital foundations that power lending at scale.
•Build, own and continually improve full-stack, full-cycle engineering solutions.
•Tackle complex challenges across customer experiences, integrations and platform services.
•Establish engineering standards, architectural guardrails, reusable frameworks, developer tooling, and platform capabilities.
•Champion engineering excellence through DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, SRE practices, resilience engineering, and secure-by-design principles.
•Contribute directly to solution design, coding, code reviews, technical decision-making, and resolution of complex performance, scalability, and reliability challenges.
•Influence engineering strategy beyond immediate team, mentoring senior engineers and technical leaders.
•Drive a strong culture of ownership, accountability, continuous improvement, and 'you build it, you own it' engineering.

Principal Software EngineerBackend PlatformsFinancial ServicesBankingAWSMicroservicesEvent-Driven ArchitectureKubernetesDevOpsHybrid

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)

Soft Skills

LeadershipMentoringCommunicationProblem SolvingStrategic ThinkingOwnershipAccountabilityContinuous Improvement

Key Responsibilities

•Provide strategic and technical leadership across platform architecture, APIs, integrations, workflow orchestration and distributed systems.

•Shape backend platforms, service domains and digital foundations that power lending at scale.

•Build, own and continually improve full-stack, full-cycle engineering solutions.

•Tackle complex challenges across customer experiences, integrations and platform services.

•Establish engineering standards, architectural guardrails, reusable frameworks, developer tooling, and platform capabilities.

•Champion engineering excellence through DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, SRE practices, resilience engineering, and secure-by-design principles.

•Contribute directly to solution design, coding, code reviews, technical decision-making, and resolution of complex performance, scalability, and reliability challenges.

•Influence engineering strategy beyond immediate team, mentoring senior engineers and technical leaders.

•Drive a strong culture of ownership, accountability, continuous improvement, and 'you build it, you own it' engineering.