Senior Software Engineer

Employment Type
Permanent
Closing Date
21 July 2025 11:59pm
Job Title
Senior Software Engineer
Job Summary

As a Senior Software Engineer, you thrive on understanding and translating customer needs into new products and capability. You apply deep technical expertise and experience in software application layer solutions, to develop and deliver scalable design blueprints across the end-to-end software development life cycle. Your continuous learning and improvement mindset, collaboration and influencing skills are critical to success in this role.
Job Description
Who We Are

We're an iconic Aussie brand with a global footprint. Our purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. We're all about providing the best experience and delivering the best tech on the best network.

This includes making Telstra the place you want to work. For you, that means a having career that grows with you and working with a team powered by human connection that prioritises wellbeing and choice.


Focus of the Role
This role as Java/Microservices Senior Software Engineer is key to the success of the Financial Technology group at Telstra.

What We Offer

Performance-related pay
Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up
Global presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business.

Purchased annual leave scheme

Additional Telstra day off

Additional 30% off Telstra products and services

Toolkit provided (laptop + mobile phone + plan paid for)

What You’ll Do

Product & Technology - Software Engineering & IT develops and maintains Telstra's software and IT systems, working on some really cutting-edge technologies.

Responsibilities

· Design/Build applications using Microservice architecture with Java Spring boot.
· Manage the development lifecycle to ensure the delivery of highly secure solutions that are op timized f or performance and built to scale
· Articulate design considerations, trade-offs, benefits, and recommendations for a technical architecture.
· Critical thinking mindset, st rong sense o f accountability for product delivery, passion to develop quality software.
· Monitor process of software configuration/development/testing to assure quality deliverable.
· Develop own and peer’s skills and be a mentor to junior peers, to build T-shaped team.
· Demonstrate accountability and end-to-end ownership for the designed capability, including proactive incident management, root cause analysis, strategic resolution planning, and automated data remediation where required


About You

Must have

· Degree level IT qualifications in Software or Systems Engineering.

· 8-10 years’ hands on experience in developing spring boot applications, in-depth knowledge of microservices architecture

· Strong hands-on experience in development and testing using microservice/lightweight containers & frameworks such as Spring Boot

· Understanding of design patterns and able to show expertise in applying design patterns

· Lead design and implementation of secure, scalable, observable, fault tolerant systems in cloud and be an active participant in peer reviews for the same.

· Experience in Cloud technologies (primarily AWS): serverless computing (Lambda, Step Functions, Glue), RDS, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS, Kinesis...

· Docker / K8 / Containerisation technologies

· Understanding of Security (Authentication and Authorisation)

· Experience with SQL and NoSQL DBs

· Understands CI/CD process and has experience with at least 1 build server (e.g.: bamboo, Gitlab ci, Jenkins etc)

· Understands version control and various branching strategies

Desirable:

· Programming languages: Python, JavaScript/Nodejs

· APIGEE or Nginx or similar API gateway experience

· Observability tools - New Relic, Splunk, Datadog, ELK stack etc

· Understanding of change management principles and experience in production support

· Experience in performance testing using JMeter or other similar tools

· Excellent communication, documentation and presentation skills

If you are looking to take the next step in your career, we want to hear from you!

As part of your application with Telstra, you may receive communications from us on +61 440 135 548 (for job applications in Australia) and +1 (623) 400-7726 (for job applications in the Philippines and India).



When you join our team, you become part of a welcoming and inclusive community where everyone is respected, valued and celebrated. We actively seek individuals from various backgrounds, ethnicities, genders and disabilities because we know that diversity not only strengthens our team but also enriches our work. We have zero tolerance for harassment of any kind, and we prioritise creating a workplace culture where everyone is safe and can thrive.



As part of the hiring process, all identified candidates will undergo a background check, and the results will play a role in the final decision regarding your application.



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