Software Engineer II

Employment Type

Permanent

Closing Date

20 July 2025 11:59pm

Job Title

Software Engineer II

Job Summary

As a software Engineering Specialist , you thrive on collaborating with your team to design, build, and deliver innovative software applications and products that delight our customers. Your command of diverse skills, passion, curiosity, and ever-learning attitude will help us march toward building a world-class software organization. You will work closely with technical leads/designers and other stakeholders by building prototypes, evaluating different tech stacks, providing strong recommendations, delivering challenging propositions, and propelling overall productivity.

Focus of the Role
This role as Java/Microservices Software Engineer is key to the success of the Financial Technology group at Telstra and will be responsible and accountable for the following:

Design/Build applications using Microservice architecture with Java Spring boot.

Manage the development lifecycle to ensure the delivery of highly secure solutions that are optimized for performance and built to scale

Critical thinking mindset, strong sense of accountability for product delivery, passion to develop quality software.

Monitor process of software configuration/development/testing to assure quality deliverable.

Develop own and peer’s skills and be a mentor to junior peers, to build T-shaped team.



What We Offer
Performance-related pay
Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up
Global presence across 22 c-ountries; 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)

What You’ll Do
With our customers at the heart of everything we do, we’re designing innovative solutions to deliver better ways for everyone to connect, share and thrive. And that’s where our people come in – by collaborating to make great things happen.

At Telstra, we’re looking to the future. We’re growing our technology portfolio of world-class Security, Cloud, and Mobility solutions and services to offer innovative and flexible solutions that help you work more productively in the present and stay on top of things in the future.

About You

Must have
Degree level IT qualifications in Software or Systems Engineering.

5-8 years’ hands on experience in developing spring boot applications, in-depth knowledge of microservices architecture

Strong hands-on experience in development and testing using microservice/lightweight containers & frameworks such as Spring Boot

Programming languages: Java 17+ (Strong) / JavaScript

Knowledge of design patterns

Understands CI/CD process and has experience with at least 1 build server (e.g. Bamboo, Gitlab ci, Jenkins etc)

Understands version control and various branching strategies (what are the issues/benefits following branching strategies)

Experience with SQL and NoSQL DBs

Desirable:
Experience in AWS: serverless computing (Lambda, Step Functions, Glue), RDS, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS, Kinesis

Programming languages: Python, JavaScript/Nodejs

APIGEE or Nginx or similar API gateway experience

Observability tools - New Relic, Splunk, Datadog, ELK stack etc

Understanding of change management principles and experience in production support.

Experience in performance testing using JMeter or other similar tools

Excellent communication, documentation and presentation skills

Job Description

Who We Are

Telstra is Australia’s leading telecommunications and technology company spanning over a century with a footprint in over 20+ countries. In India, we’re building a platform for innovative delivery and engagement that will strengthen our position as an industry leader. We’ve grown quickly since our inception in 2019, now with offices in Pune, Hyderabad and Bangalore.

Focus of the Role
This role as Java/Microservices Software Engineer is key to the success of the Financial Technology group at Telstra and will be responsible and accountable for the following:

• Design/Build applications using Microservice architecture with Java Spring boot.

• Manage the development lifecycle to ensure the delivery of highly secure solutions that are optimized for performance and built to scale

• Critical thinking mindset, strong sense of accountability for product delivery, passion to develop quality software.

• Monitor process of software configuration/development/testing to assure quality deliverable.

• Develop own and peer’s skills and be a mentor to junior peers, to build T-shaped team.
  

What We Offer

Performance-related pay
Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up
Global presence across 22 c-ountries; 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)

What You’ll Do

With our customers at the heart of everything we do, we’re designing innovative solutions to deliver better ways for everyone to connect, share and thrive. And that’s where our people come in – by collaborating to make great things happen.

At Telstra, we’re looking to the future. We’re growing our technology portfolio of world-class Security, Cloud, and Mobility solutions and services to offer innovative and flexible solutions that help you work more productively in the present and stay on top of things in the future.

About You

Must have

• Degree level IT qualifications in Software or Systems Engineering.

• 5-8 years’ hands on experience in developing spring boot applications, in-depth knowledge of microservices architecture

• Strong hands-on experience in development and testing using microservice/lightweight containers & frameworks such as Spring Boot

• Programming languages: Java 17+ (Strong) / JavaScript

• Knowledge of design patterns

• Understands CI/CD process and has experience with at least 1 build server (e.g. Bamboo, Gitlab ci, Jenkins etc)

• Understands version control and various branching strategies (what are the issues/benefits following branching strategies)

• Experience with SQL and NoSQL DBs

Desirable:

• Experience in AWS: serverless computing (Lambda, Step Functions, Glue), RDS, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS, Kinesis

• Programming languages: Python, JavaScript/Nodejs

• APIGEE or Nginx or similar API gateway experience

• Observability tools - New Relic, Splunk, Datadog, ELK stack etc

• Understanding of change management principles and experience in production support

• Experience in performance testing using JMeter or other similar tools

• Excellent communication, documentation and presentation skills

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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 disabilities 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.

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