Sydney, NSW, Australia
CommBank offers banking, home loans, insurance, investing and super, and business and institutional banking. Despite its massive headcount of almost 40,000 employees, it's managed to maintain a satisfied and productive engineering team (4.0 star average Glassdoor reviews from engineers).
Originally founded in 1911 as the official bank of the Australian government, it was eventually privatised and became a public company in 1991.
CommBank is hiring engineers from across all of Australia and is allowing them the the choice on when and where work happens.
CommBank offers banking, home loans, insurance, investing and super, and business and institutional banking. Despite its massive headcount of almost 40,000 employees, it's managed to maintain a satisfied and productive engineering team (4.0 star average Glassdoor reviews from engineers).
Originally founded in 1911 as the official bank of the Australian government, it was eventually privatised and became a public company in 1991.
CommBank is hiring engineers from across all of Australia and is allowing them the the choice on when and where work happens.
“The people I work with are very important to me - my colleagues are not just smart and knowledgeable, they're also friendly and open minded. Whilst my work can be challenging, my team always make coming to work enjoyable.”
“Since working from home, we’ve all tried to avoid putting meetings in between 12pm – 2pm to accommodate the team and make sure we’re all taking a break.”
CommBank processes millions of transactions daily and handles around 40% of all payments made by Australians.
The work of engineers in particular, who manage the company's apps and systems, directly affects over 17 million customers' access to their money. The company places a strong emphasis on developing its employees, offering opportunities for growth and movement within the company across diverse tech stacks.
It also prioritizes its employees' well-being, offering flexible work options, including the ability to work from home and access to technology hubs for face-to-face collaboration.The company's engineers play a key role in shaping this strategy and the company is dedicated to empowering them to work in a way that best suits them and their teams.
CommBank processes millions of transactions daily and handles around 40% of all payments made by Australians.
The work of engineers in particular, who manage the company's apps and systems, directly affects over 17 million customers' access to their money. The company places a strong emphasis on developing its employees, offering opportunities for growth and movement within the company across diverse tech stacks.
It also prioritizes its employees' well-being, offering flexible work options, including the ability to work from home and access to technology hubs for face-to-face collaboration.The company's engineers play a key role in shaping this strategy and the company is dedicated to empowering them to work in a way that best suits them and their teams.
CommBank's engineering team uses modern agile methodologies and is comprised of Systems Engineering (creating, managing and optimising platforms), Data Engineering (solving data-centric problems), Software Engineering (building web and mobile apps, and APIs), QA & Test Engineering (helping teams deliver with confidence), the Site Reliability Engineering team (maintaining high standards of service outcomes), and Security Engineering (keeping customer data safe).
The team practices DevOps/SRE, Shift-left, Innersource/Opensource, Modern Pipelines and uses containers and cloud.
The team's Data Engineering function is one of the biggest in Australia and works with Scala, Java, Python, and tools like Hadoop, Spark, and various ETL frameworks.
The mobile team is also one of the largest native mobile teams in the country, responsible for building Australia's most downloaded banking app, used by over 5 million people every day.
In 2022 CommBank held an Engineering Symposium at the bank’s Sydney offices in South Eveleigh. The symposium featured keynote speakers from companies such as Google, Atlassian, GitHub, Microsoft, DCVC and Tasktop.
CommBank's engineering team uses modern agile methodologies and is comprised of Systems Engineering (creating, managing and optimising platforms), Data Engineering (solving data-centric problems), Software Engineering (building web and mobile apps, and APIs), QA & Test Engineering (helping teams deliver with confidence), the Site Reliability Engineering team (maintaining high standards of service outcomes), and Security Engineering (keeping customer data safe).
The team practices DevOps/SRE, Shift-left, Innersource/Opensource, Modern Pipelines and uses containers and cloud.
The team's Data Engineering function is one of the biggest in Australia and works with Scala, Java, Python, and tools like Hadoop, Spark, and various ETL frameworks.
The mobile team is also one of the largest native mobile teams in the country, responsible for building Australia's most downloaded banking app, used by over 5 million people every day.
In 2022 CommBank held an Engineering Symposium at the bank’s Sydney offices in South Eveleigh. The symposium featured keynote speakers from companies such as Google, Atlassian, GitHub, Microsoft, DCVC and Tasktop.
Really wanting to understand how things work.
Wanting to constantly improve and make things better every day.
A can-do attitude means more than the knowledge you walk through the door with.
The team practices consistent sharing and mentorship.
Able to adapt quickly to changes.
Salary sacrifice options for super, shares, childcare fees, cars, and other options.
Staff can access discounts across lots of product and services, from TVs to hotels.
Adjust your start and finish times or work fewer hours than a standard full-time job, while providing all the perks of a (pro-rata) full-time role.
Extra leave including gender-neutral parental leave, additional purchased annual leave (up to 4 weeks), career breaks, carers leave, community service leave, study leave, compassionate leave, unpaid leave and 3 days of life leave a year.
Up to 100% financial assistance and study leave for further studies related to your career at CommBank.
Take volunteering leave as an individual or as a team without set limits on the number of days you can take.
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