Senior Software Engineer - Java Microservices

Employment TypePermanent

Closing Date7 Apr 2025 11:59pm

Job TitleSenior Software Engineer - Java Microservices

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

Telstra’s an iconic Aussie brand with a global footprint. Our purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. We’re Australia’s leading Telco + tech company, spanning over a century with a footprint in over 20+ countries.

Focus of the Role

To design, build and support service assurance capabilities as a part of high performance software engineering team, delivering competitive advantage and enabling profitable growth, whilst managing the end-to-end development, delivery, technical design authority, integration requirements and lifecycle management of capabilities which expose reusable APIs for multiple internal and external consumers

What You’ll Do  

• Be most valued contributor in feature team, with a strong ownership of business
• capability(s)
• Understand business domain thoroughly. Design, develop and deploy business
• functionality in the microservices architecture.
• Practice TDD and have strong interest in functional test automation.
• Implement reusable libraries to deal with cross cutting concerns and boiler plate code.
• Has strong interest in exploring new ways of doing things with the latest tools and
• technologies.
• Expert in debugging, troubleshooting code and tune it for performance improvements.
• Perform assessment of technology frameworks and integration products to meet demand
• of growing capability
• Develop solutions that are resilient, self-healing and Cloud Native.
• Be a active participant of team as DevOps with full accountability of CI/CD, test
• automation, support and monitoring functions within a team.
• Complying with all relevant processes and standards, including change management
• principles and processes to ensure deliverables meet or exceed defined quality standards.
• Develop own and peers skills to build T-shaped team.
• Identify and drive capability unit cost reduction opportunities through simplification,
• rationalisation and smart application of new technology.
• Left shit security operations to deliver more secure.
• Perform stakeholder management functions, working with multiple business units

About You

• 6y+ of operating in role of senior developer or technical lead for business critical service delivery platform supporting high volume of transactions, integrating with multiple core systems.
• Hands-on experience in at least one programming language. (Java, Kotlin, Nodejs, etc)
• Understands very well distributed computing principles.
• Worked extensively in microservices based software systems.
• Hands-on experience in designing, building, and securing APIs.
• Design and implementation of resilient and self-healing systems
• Understands and implemented high performing APIs at scale.
• Design and implementation of Cloud native systems in AWS environment or PCF.
• Design and development of microservices using Spring Boot. Webclient will be a plus.
• Proficient level of using non-blocking IO in integration with dependent systems.
• Proficient level of usage  of API Gateways such as APIGEE.
• Proficient level of usage of Spring Cloud Services.
• Security Technologies: MASSL, Certificate Management, Web Service Security, AWS data encryption
• SDKs
• Hands-on ability to cover the code using Stubbing and Mocking
• Database technologies – Oracle RDMS, NoSQL DB (Couchbase), DynamoDB.
• Design of batch processing for large data
• Code quality control using static analysis for code and dependencies: Sonar, Veracode, etc.
• Services assurance: approaches for efficient alarming, trend analysis using splunk, new relic, app dynamics, Pagerduty, etc.

Desired Skills :

• Design and implementation of integrations using Messaging Patterns and Technologies (Tibco JMS/Rabbit MQ)
• Fluent with Unix, Linux, Solaris or other Unix type operating systems.
• Container management systems (Docker, Kubernetes)
• AWS Serverless computing (Lambda, Step functions, Glue)
• Design and use of Dynamo DB, Kinesis streams, cloudwatch in AWS environment
• Scripting languages (Bash, Perl, etc)
• Working knowledge of creating pipelines using Bamboo or Jenkins

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

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

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 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.