Senior Software Engineer - Java Full Stack

Employment Type

Permanent

Closing Date

10 July 2025 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.

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

The role will be responsible for the operational health, deployment, and continuous improvement of applications within the Assurance stack. This role blends application support and operational engineering, ensuring high availability, proactive issue management, and efficient delivery across development, testing, and production environments.

What You’ll Do

Experience:

Full Stack developer role is to plan, coordinate, and execute all activities related to the requirements interpretation, design and implementation of Full stack applications. This individual will apply proven industry and technology experience as well as communication skills, problem-solving skills, and knowledge of best practices to issues related to design, development, and deployment of mission-critical business systems with a focus on quality application development and delivery.

This role is key to the success of the Customer Platforms function at Telstra and will be responsible and accountable for the following:

• Collaborate with product owners, designers, and stakeholders to understand project requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Design and implement responsive user interfaces using modern front-end technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and front-end frameworks (e.g., Angular).
• Develop server-side applications and RESTful APIs using back-end technologies such as Java and Spring Boot.
• Integrate front-end and back-end components to create a seamless user experience.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Ability to review vendor designs and recommended solutions based on industry best practises
• Understand overall business operations and develops innovative solutions to help improve productivity
• Ability to understand and design provisioning solutions at Telstra and how CRM interacts with provisioning layers.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills needed to support enterprise high availability full stack applications . Reduce ageing tickets and provide proactive problem management .
• Coordinate with technical resource within and outside of Customer Platforms team.
• Perform database design and development, including data modeling, queries, and optimization.
• Ensure the application's performance, security, and scalability meet industry best practices and project requirements.
• Test and debug web applications to identify and resolve issues.
• Organize and conduct showcases for product owners and stakeholders.
• Continuously improve and refactor code for better performance and maintainability.
• Actively participating in code reviews and giving constructive feedback.
• Collaborate with DevOps engineers for smooth deployment and release processes.
• Stay up to date with latest technologies, frameworks, and industry trends.
• Assists leadership with development and management of new application capabilities to improve productivity.
• Provide training and educate other team members around core capabilities and helps them deliver high quality solutions and deliverables/documentation
• Self-Motivator to perform Design / Develop user requirements, test and deploy the changes into production.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field (preferred but not required).
• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer with more than 7+ years' experience and a strong portfolio.
• Experience in Java 17+/Kotlin/Spring Boot, and ReactJS/JavaScript(ES6)/Angular.
• Good experience in developing and designing microservices, Restful webservices and exposing APIs on API Gateway (eg: APIGEE)
• Solid knowledge of database technologies like, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB.
• Familiar with API development and integration with GraphQL and RESTful technologies(JSON).
• Practised Model View Controller (MVC) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) in order to develop maintainable and scalable solutions.
• Developed automated tests using frontend and backend test frameworks like jest mockito etc.
• Design and implementation of single and multi-tier application architecture.
• Development and deployment and scaling of containerised applications with Docker
• A good understanding of the architectural principals of web-based platforms including SaaS, multi-tenancy, multi-tiered infrastructure and application servers
• Understanding of all cloud offerings in the market and ability to discuss cloud architectures
• A good understanding of enterprise application integration, including SOA, ESB, EAI, ETL environments and an understanding of integration considerations such as process orchestration, customer data integration and master data management
• A good understanding of the security processes, standards & issues involved in multi-tier, multi-tenant web applications
• Web Technologies including MVC concepts, JS build automation frameworks, etc.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge of XML, JSON and other data interchange formats.
• Knowledge of Java, HTML5, JQuery and other web technologies.
• Excellent communication, documentation and presentation skills .
• Experience writing developer centric documentation
• Experience with Jira and Confluence or similar tools.

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.