Senior Software Engineer

About Us

Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia’s largest regional, domestic, and international airline. Qantas has a range of subsidiary businesses that support the overall operations of the Group. The Qantas Group’s main business is the transportation of customers and freight using two complementary airline brands — Qantas and Jetstar — operating regional, domestic, and international services.

• Great opportunity to add significant value to the Qantas Group
• Permanent opportunity based at our Mascot office (hybrid working office available)
• Staff Travel Benefits from Day One

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to guide and lead the architecture, delivery, and development of the software systems that power our business unit.

This role is for a hands-on, highly skilled software developer with the experience to both code and mentor other technical team members to deliver high-quality, well-designed software. You will share significant responsibility for the quality of the software being built, including achieving desired business outcomes, meeting reliability and performance expectations, and safely managing security and data privacy concerns.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you are expected to have a solid understanding of how web applications are delivered and operated end-to-end within an enterprise environment. You should have strong expertise with back-end technologies, but experience with front-end technologies is also desirable.

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Strong knowledge of Agile and Lean software development practices as well as the SDLC.
• Extensive experience with version control tools like Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, and code reviews.
• A strong, end-to-end technical understanding of how applications run and operate within an enterprise environment.
• In-depth, expert knowledge in back-end technologies (e.g., Java, Springboot, API, REST).
• Strong SQL skills and experience with data warehouses and Teradata.
• Expertise with messaging systems like Kafka.
• Knowledge and experience with cloud platforms, specifically AWS (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, RDS).
• Experience with GraphQL and various authentication methods.
• Expertise with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience researching and troubleshooting bugs and performance bottlenecks in a production environment.
• Good knowledge of important software design considerations, including security, performance, and data privacy.

Desirable 

• Experience with front-end technologies like React, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and TypeScript.
• Experience working with AEM.
• Use of observability tools like DataDog.

Personal Attributes

• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Great communication skills (written and verbal) to enable successful collaboration.
• Strong prioritization and time management skills.
• Driven and motivated by team and company success.
• Highly professional with high integrity and attention to detail.
• A willingness to take ownership of issues and deliverables.
• Flexible and able to take on a variety of roles, including leadership.
• Enthusiasm for learning and driving the adoption of the latest technology.
• Excellent skills in workshop facilitation, presentation, consultation, and negotiation.

Why Qantas? 

You’ll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to allow us to dream big and deliver successfully. 

There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you’ll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. Your development is a priority for us – so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time. You’ll be supported from day 1 with on the job training and coaching as well as our formal training opportunities. While you may start in this role, we’ve got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless.  

The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel:

• We love to travel: Enjoy heavily discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays.
• We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave (plus superannuation payments on all paid and unpaid parental leave until your child turns 1) and additional purchased leave options for eligible employees.
• We’ll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment. You can also take advantage of our salary packaging program including motor vehicles, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships.
• We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether it’s learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan. 

Applications Close: 1st September 2025