CBA is advertising jobs in India that it made redundant in Australia just weeks ago. Photo: ShutterstockWith Australian unemployment surging, the Finance Sector Union (FSU) is furious over revelations the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is hiring over 100 Indian software engineers to replace hundreds of Australian workers it fired just months ago. The bank’s CBA India subsidiary is currently recruiting technical staff, the FSU noted, including Staff Data Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Staff Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, Software Engineer, and Senior Data Engineer. Now – on the back of a surge in Australian-Indian relations that includes a push to more readily recognise and share skilled ICT staff – CBA is again rebuilding its Indian headcount, nearly doubling staff in the country from 2,854 in 2022 to 5,630 last year. One Software Engineer role at the Bangalore-Manyata Tech Park promises a “key role in delivering key capabilities like building the APIs to integrate CBA systems….