Senior Software Engineer

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Telstra is a leading telecommunications and technology company with a proudly Australian heritage and a longstanding, growing international business. Today, Telstra International has over 3,200 employees based in more than 30 countries outside of Australia, providing services to thousands of businesses, government, carrier, and OTT customers. Over several decades, Telstra has established the largest wholly owned subsea cable network in the Asia-Pacific, with a unique and diverse set of infrastructure that offers access to the most intra-Asia lit capacity. Telstra empowers businesses with innovative technology solutions including data and IP networks, and network application services such as managed networks, security, unified communications, cloud, industry solutions, integrated software applications, and services.

Minimum Experience: 8+ years

Responsibilities:

• Design and build Java/Spring Boot applications leveraging microservice architecture.
• Design technical architecture solutions, including integration and authentication across systems.
• Manage the development lifecycle to ensure the delivery of highly secure solutions optimized for performance and scalability.
• Articulate design considerations, trade-offs, benefits, and recommendations for technical architecture.
• Monitor the process of software configuration, development, and testing to assure quality deliverables.
• Exhibit critical thinking, a strong sense of accountability for product delivery, and a passion for developing quality software.
• Demonstrate good communication skills and the ability to work effectively as a team player.
• Experience working (or willingness to work) with a geographically distributed team.
• Provide training and educate other team members about core capabilities to help them deliver high-quality solutions and documentation.

Essential Skills:

• Strong knowledge of OOP concepts and design patterns.
• Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Hands-on experience in backend development using Java 8+.
• Hands-on experience with the Spring ecosystem (Spring, Spring Data, Spring JPA, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud, Spring Boot).
• Unit testing using JUnit 5/Spock and integration testing using Spring Boot.
• End-to-end testing using Cucumber and mock containers.
• Understanding of package managers Maven/Gradle.
• Understanding of microservices design and interaction patterns.
• Hands-on experience in creating OCI image building using Docker/Buildah.
• Understanding of cloud deployment and orchestration frameworks.
• Understanding of security frameworks like OAuth/OpenID Connect.
• Involvement in the design and implementation of secure, scalable, fault-tolerant systems in the cloud.
• Hands-on experience with AWS/Azure (EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, Kinesis).
• Understanding of async messaging systems like MQ/Kafka/Apache Pulsar.
• Understanding of application logging and monitoring (Splunk/New Relic/Open Telemetry/Prometheus).
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Understanding of CI/CD processes with hands-on experience with Bamboo/GitLab/Jenkins.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in cloud technologies (primarily AWS): RDS, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS, Kinesis.
• Understanding of security (authentication and authorization).
• Experience in UI development using React/Angular.
• Basic understanding of Terraform.
• Understanding of change management principles and experience in production support.