Senior Software Engineer

Employment Type

Permanent

Closing Date

30 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.

Focus of the Role

This role as Java/Microservices Senior Software Engineer is key to the success of the Financial Technology group at Telstra and will be responsible and accountable for the following:

Design/Build applications using Microservice architecture with Java Spring boot.

Manage the development lifecycle to ensure the delivery of highly secure solutions that are optimized for performance and built to scale

Articulate design considerations, trade-offs, benefits, and recommendations for a technical architecture.

Critical thinking mindset, strong sense of accountability for product delivery, passion to develop quality software.

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

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.


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

With our customers at the heart of everything we do, we’re designing innovative solutions to deliver better ways for everyone to connect, share and thrive. And that’s where our people come in – by collaborating to make great things happen.

At Telstra, we’re looking to the future. We’re growing our technology portfolio of world-class Security, Cloud, and Mobility solutions and services to offer innovative and flexible solutions that help you work more productively in the present and stay on top of things in the future.


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

Job Description

Who We Are

Telstra is Australia’s leading telecommunications and technology company spanning over a century with a footprint in over 20+ countries. In India, we’re building a platform for innovative delivery and engagement that will strengthen our position as an industry leader. We’ve grown quickly since our inception in 2019, now with offices in Pune, Hyderabad and Bangalore.

Focus of the Role

This role as Java/Microservices Senior Software Engineer is key to the success of the Financial Technology group at Telstra and will be responsible and accountable for the following:

• Design/Build applications using Microservice architecture with Java Spring boot.

• Manage the development lifecycle to ensure the delivery of highly secure solutions that are optimized for performance and built to scale

• Articulate design considerations, trade-offs, benefits, and recommendations for a technical architecture.

• Critical thinking mindset, strong sense of accountability for product delivery, passion to develop quality software.

• 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

• 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.

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.

• Up to 26 weeks maternity leave provided to the birth mother with benefits for all child births

• Up to 16 weeks paid paternity leave provided to the non-birthing partners

• Employees are entitled to 21 paid annual leaves per calendar year

• Eligible employees are entitled to 12 days of paid sick / casual leave per calendar year

• Relocation support options across India, from junior to senior positions within the company

• Receive insurance benefits such as medical, accidental and life insurances.

What You’ll Do

With our customers at the heart of everything we do, we’re designing innovative solutions to deliver better ways for everyone to connect, share and thrive. And that’s where our people come in – by collaborating to make great things happen.

At Telstra, we’re looking to the future. We’re growing our technology portfolio of world-class Security, Cloud, and Mobility solutions and services to offer innovative and flexible solutions that help you work more productively in the present and stay on top of things in the future.

About You

Must have

• Degree level IT qualifications in Software or Systems Engineering.

• 9+ years’ of 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

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