Senior Software Engineer - Java Full Stack

Employment Type

Permanent

Closing Date

16 Oct 2026 11:59pm

Job Title

Senior Software Engineer - Java Full Stack

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.

What is the focus of the role?

As a Senior Software Engineer, you design, build, test, release and support secure, reliable and scalable backend services, APIs and event-driven capabilities. You work as a senior individual contributor within a cross-functional product team, provide technical leadership, improve engineering practices and support the growth of other engineers.

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.

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

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

Responsibilities

• Design/Build Java/Spring boot application and leverage Microservice architecture
• Design technical architecture solutions that span multiple domains (Sales, Service, Marketing, Analytics, Social,
• and Communities) and include integration and authentication across systems.
• 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 technical architecture.
• Monitor the process of software configuration/development/testing to assure quality deliverables.
• Critical thinking mindset, a 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 a geographically distributed team
• Provide training and educate other team members about core capabilities and helps them deliver high-quality solutions and deliverables/documentation

About You

You have strong Full-Stack Software development technology experience with a priority focus on Backend delivery. Combined with excellent stakeholder management, engagement and presentation skills, you thrive in a role that is autonomous yet collaborative while working in an Agile team embedded in CI/CD best practice. You understand customer needs and use this knowledge to advise development teams and product Managers on best engineering solutions in line with Tech capabilities and ability to manage multiple sprint priorities as required.

Essential Skills and Technologies:

• Degree-level IT qualifications in Software or Systems Engineering.
• Programming languages: Java 8+ (Expert) / JavaScript/Angular/React
• Strong hands-on experience in development and testing using microservice/lightweight containers & frameworks such as Spring Boot
• Understanding of CRM Product Model /Order Decomposition/ Order Orchestrator
• Understanding of design patterns and ability to show expertise in applying design patterns.
• Involved in the design and implementation of secure, scalable, fault-tolerant systems in the cloud.
• 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)
• Well-versed with Linux

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in Cloud technologies (primarily AWS): serverless computing(lambda, step functions, Glue), RDS, Postgres, S3, SQS, SNS, kinesis
• Salesforce (CRM) & Apex knowledge would be an added advantage.
• Understanding of Security (Authentication and Authorisation)
• APIGEE or Nginx or similar API gateway experience.
• Understanding of change management principles and 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 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.

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.

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