Staff Software Engineer - Gen AI
At a glance
Senior AI Engineering role at Cba (CommBank Careers). Bangalore · full-time.
Pay not stated AI Engineering salary
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What you'll do
- Turn business needs into software designs, then help the team divide the work and resolve difficult engineering problems
- Test new AI engineering tools and cloud services in practice, sharing what you learn with the team
- Build dependable, reusable software that fits smoothly with other teams’ products and workflows
- Shape architecture, uphold engineering standards, review code, and document decisions for shared understanding
- Coordinate across project teams and coach junior engineers as work progresses
What you bring
- At least eleven years designing and delivering software that is scalable, maintainable, and reliable
- Know how AI, machine learning, and generative AI can improve engineering, including RAG work with LlamaIndex or LangChain
- Use Python, TypeScript, C# or another language, and build cloud microservices on AWS or Azure
- Hold an engineering degree at bachelor’s or master’s level in computer science or information technology
- Bring technical leadership, stakeholder collaboration, and regular use of AI coding assistants
Who this fits
This senior staff engineering role suits someone who combines hands-on software development with technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-team delivery. The position is based in Bangalore.
From the employer
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: Staff Software Engineer - Gen AI
Location: Bangalore
Business & Team:
Business Banking Technology executes the Technology Strategy across Business Banking through the 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 join a growing engineering organisation responsible for critical capabilities including:
Customer and colleague digital experiences
CRM and banker platform capabilities
Data-driven insights and decisioning services
AI-enabled customer engagement experiences
Shared platform services supporting Business Banking journeys
Impact & Contribution:
Apply core concepts, technology, and domain expertise to effectively develop software solutions to meet business needs. You will contribute to the financial well-being of 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:
Collaborating with the team to tackle complex technical problems, contributing to design and implementation to ensure quality engineering outcomes
Translating requirements into engineering solutions, assisting in breaking down work and creating clarity for team members
Experimenting with emerging AI assisted engineering tools and cloud services, providing feedback and insights from real world testing
Delivering robust and reusable solutions that integrate seamlessly into other teams’ workflows and products
Contributing to architectural discussions and propose improvements, role modelling standards and best practices
Actively participating 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
Coaching and mentoring junior members in the team
Essential Skills:
Minimum exp of 11+ yrs 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
Experience building RAGs using LlamaIndex, LangChain, or similar frameworks.
Experience building Agentic AI systems using AutoGen, SemanticKernel, Pydantic, or similar frameworks is preferred
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
Education Qualification: Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology
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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