Staff Software Engineer - iOS
Commonwealth Bank · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Financial Services · 10,001+ employees
About the role
Lead the design and delivery of scalable iOS applications and platform capabilities for Business Banking customers. Drive architectural decisions, establish engineering standards, and integrate emerging Generative AI experiences into the mobile ecosystem.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires strong experience building and scaling native iOS applications with a deep understanding of mobile architecture and software engineering best practices. Candidates should have a proven track record of leading technical decisions and mentoring other engineers.
Full description
Staff iOS Engineer – Customer Channels & Data
Business Banking Technology
*Sydney or Melbourne locations
- Shape the future of mobile experiences for Business Banking customers.
- Influence architecture, engineering standards and platform direction across one of Australia's largest mobile engineering environments.
- Experiment with and scale Generative AI and agentic AI experiences that transform how customers interact with the bank.
Do work that matters
At CommBank, we're transforming how Australian businesses engage with the bank through digital channels, data-driven experiences and emerging AI capabilities.
As a Staff iOS Engineer, you'll play a critical role in shaping the future of mobile experiences across Business Banking. You'll help build intuitive, secure and scalable experiences that support customers throughout their banking journey.
You'll have the opportunity to work with emerging Generative AI and agentic AI capabilities, helping design, build and scale intelligent experiences that improve how customers interact with the bank.
Working closely with engineers, product teams, designers and platform specialists, you'll help deliver experiences used at national scale while influencing architecture, engineering practices and platform excellence across the domain.
See yourself in our team
Business Banking Technology executes the Technology Strategy across Business Banking through 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 team responsible for customer-facing mobile experiences that help business customers access banking services, financial insights and personalised support through Australia's leading digital banking channels.
Working alongside mobile, cloud, platform and AI engineers, you'll help shape experiences that are intuitive, reliable, accessible and built for the future.
What you'll do
- Lead the design and delivery of scalable, high-performing iOS applications and platform capabilities.
- Drive architecture decisions and establish engineering standards across mobile experiences.
- Champion platform excellence across performance, accessibility, security and reliability.
- Guide teams through the full engineering lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment and optimisation.
- Partner with backend, cloud and AI teams to build integrated customer experiences.
- Improve engineering practices, developer experience and platform capabilities.
- Mentor engineers and help grow mobile engineering capability across the organisation.
- Drive operational excellence through monitoring, observability and continuous improvement.
We're interested in hearing from people who have
- Strong experience building and scaling native iOS applications.
- Proven experience leading technical decisions and influencing engineering outcomes.
- Deep understanding of mobile architecture and software engineering best practices.
- Experience delivering high-quality customer-facing digital experiences.
- A passion for engineering excellence, platform craftsmanship and continuous improvement.
- The ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery.
- Experience mentoring engineers and uplifting technical capability across teams.
Experience working with cloud-native platforms, backend integration patterns or AI-enabled customer experiences is highly regarded but not essential.
Technical skills
iOS Engineering
- Swift
- SwiftUI
- UIKit
- MVVM, Clean Architecture and modular architectures
- Swift Concurrency (async/await)
- Combine
Mobile Platform Engineering:
Secure mobile application development, API integration patterns, Mobile performance optimisation, Accessibility standards and best practices, Modular and feature-based application architectures, Full lifecycle mobile engineering including testing, deployment and production support
Engineering Excellence:
Application monitoring and observability, DevSecOps practices, Modern Agile engineering practices
Why this role is different
- Shape mobile experiences used by Business Banking customers across Australia.
- Work with emerging Generative AI and agentic AI technologies.
- Influence architecture and engineering standards across a large-scale mobile ecosystem.
- Solve complex challenges while remaining close to technology and delivery.
- Join a team modernising customer experiences through mobile, data and AI.
Working with us
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