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.
• Pro…