Payments Engineering Manager

CommBank is looking for an Engineering Manager within Payments Technology – Channel & Reporting to implement designs, develop solutions, and guide design to drive outcomes across Core Product Systems. You will remain hands-on in software delivery while leading engineers to design, build, secure, and operate resilient payment solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, review, and maintain production-grade applications, APIs, and microservices using .NET, Node.js, NestJS, and Next.js.

• Provide hands-on technical leadership through coding, pair programming, code reviews, and troubleshooting complex cross-system issues.

• Translate business outcomes into clear technical requirements, solution options, architecture decisions, and delivery plans.

• Own end-to-end solution design, including API contracts, event-driven integration, data flows, and resilience.

• Build and evolve secure, scalable AWS solutions using Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, Fargate, and IAM.

• Implement and improve CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, containerisation, and monitoring practices.

• Embed security throughout the software development lifecycle including threat modelling and secure coding.

• Coach engineers in coding practices, architecture, testing, and DevSecOps while maintaining delivery accountability.

Requirements

• Extensive software engineering experience with recent hands-on contributions to production code.

• Strong proficiency in C#, .NET, and .NET Core, including REST APIs, background services, and asynchronous programming.

• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript development experience using Node.js, NestJS, and Next.js.

• Experience designing microservices, API-first, and event-driven systems.

• Hands-on AWS experience across Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, Fargate, IAM, and VPC.

• Practical DevOps experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, Docker, and Kubernetes.