Employment TypePermanent
Closing Date18 Apr 2025 11:59pm
Job TitleSoftware Engineer
Job Summary
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 Software Engineer, you thrive on working with your team to design, build and deliver innovative software products and solutions that delight our customers. You apply broad knowledge in software application layer solutions and the software development lifecycle, to experiment, solve problems and own solutions that transform epics into new product features and capabilities. Your continuous learning and improvement mindset and collaboration skills are critical to success in this role, as you continue to deepen your knowledge and expertise in the Software Engineering Domain.
We're interested in hearing from people who have
- Critical thinking mindset, 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 geographically distributed teams.
- Strong technical background
- Develop own and peer’s skills and be a mentor to junior peers, to build T-shaped team.
Must haves
- Strong hands-on experience in development and testing using microservice/lightweight containers & frameworks such as Spring Boot
- Programming languages: Java 8+ (Strong) / Javascript
- Knowledge of design patterns
- Understands CI/CD process and has experience with at least 1 build server (eg bamboo, gitlab ci, jenkins etc)
- Understands version control and various branching strategies (what are the issues/benefits following particular branching strategies)
- Experience in AWS: serverless computing (lambda, stepfunctions, Glue), RDS, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, sns, kinesis
- experience with SQL and NoSQL DBs
Desirable
- Programming languages: Python, JavaScript/Nodejs
- Docker / K8 / Containerization tech
- APIGEE or Nginx or similar API gateway experience
- Observability tools - New relic, Splunk, Datadog, ELK stack etc
- Experience in production support
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.
- Purchased annual leave scheme
- Additional Telstra day off
- Additional 30% off Telstra products and services
- Toolkit provided (laptop + mobile phone + plan paid for)
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.
Top Skills
What We Do
We believe it’s people who give purpose to our technology. So we’re committed to staying close to our customers and providing them the best experience.
And delivering the best tech.
On the best network.
Because our purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive.
We build technology and content solutions that are simple and easy to use, including Australia’s largest and fastest national mobile network.
That’s why we strive to serve and know our customers better than anyone else – offering a choice of not just digital connection, but digital content as well.
And that’s why we have an international presence spanning 15 countries, including China.
In the 21st century, opportunity belongs to connected businesses, governments, communities and individuals.
As Australia’s leading telecommunications and information services company, Telstra is proud to be helping our customers improve the ways in which they live and work through connection.
