Software Engineer II

Employment Type

Permanent

Closing Date

11 May 2025 11:59pm

Job Title

Software Engineer II

Job Summary

As a software Engineering Specialist , you thrive on collaborating with your team to design, build, and deliver innovative software applications and products that delight our customers. Your command of diverse skills, passion, curiosity, and ever-learning attitude will help us march toward building a world-class software organization. You will work closely with technical leads/designers and other stakeholders by building prototypes, evaluating different tech stacks, providing strong recommendations, delivering challenging propositions, and propelling overall productivity.

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 prioritizes wellbeing and choice.

Focus of the Role

In this position the Jave Microservices Developer will be an autonomous individual that is able to solve complex Java and microservices queries while identifying areas of code improvement.

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.

As a backend Java developer, you will work within a specific problem space critical to Telstra’s current needs where you will design, develop, and deploy backend services with a focus on scalability, high availability, and low latency. This will include Reviewing and integrating all application requirements, including functional, security, integration, performance, quality, and operations requirements. Using your expertise, you will apply engineering best practices such as Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps as part of a high performing motivated team. While collaborating to grow in a dynamic and autonomous environment while working in small, agile, and cross functional teams. It is integral that you are able to pivot to work on new features and developments, to providing production support in the production and pre-production environments assisted by all team members. This responsibility is equally shared by all members of the team.

What you are looking for:

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

• Good communication skills, and team player.

• Experience working (or willing to work) with geographically distributed teams.

• Strong technical background

• Develop own and peer’s skills and be a mentor to junior peers, to build T-shaped team.

Must haves

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

• Programming languages: Java 8+ (Strong) / Javascript

• Knowledge of design patterns

• Understands CI/CD process and has experience with at least 1 build server (eg bamboo, gitlab ci, jenkins etc)

• Understands version control and various branching strategies (what are the issues/benefits following particular branching strategies)

• Experience in AWS: serverless computing (lambda, stepfunctions, Glue), RDS, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, sns, kinesis

• experience with SQL and NoSQL DBs  

 

Desirable

• Programming languages: Python, JavaScript/Nodejs

• Docker / K8 / Containerisation tech

• APIGEE or Nginx or similar API gateway experience

• Observability tools - New relic, Splunk, Datadog, ELK stack etc

• Experience in production support

We're amongst the top 2% of companies globally in the CDP Global Climate Change Index 2023, being awarded an 'A' rating. If you want to work for a company that cares about sustainability, 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 abilities 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 prioritize 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.

We work flexibly at Telstra. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you. When you apply, you can share your pronouns and / or any reasonable adjustments needed to take part equitably during the recruitment process.