Employment Type Permanent
Closing Date 20 July 2025 11:59pm
Job Title Staff Software Engineer
Job Summary
As a Staff Engineer you model the highest standards of software engineering practice in the work you do. Acting with a sense of urgency, whilst remaining flexible you put customer needs first. You actively use your breadth and depth of expertise to build capability and raise work standards in the teams you are working in.
Focus of the Role This role as Staff Engineer is key to the success of the Financial Technology group at Telstra and will be responsible and accountable for the following: Actively participate in building chapter technical capability through direct mentoring of the team in software engineering practices, understanding of new and emerging technologies, tools, approaches and processes. Contribute to continuous evolution of technical components managed by domain by working on technology and architecture roadmaps (mid-term and long-term views). Own the engineering operations for the services that the DevOps teams have deployed in production. Work across teams to foster an architecture that enables iterative, autonomous development and future scaling. Provide guidance to multiple teams in anticipation of future use cases, helping them make design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes. Acquire domain knowledge as needed to drive the work through customer centric lens. Build strong commercial capability across multiple teams by modelling well developed commercial thinking, balancing cost and value to decide the most economic action the delivers good outcomes. Foster a culture of observability across several teams and help them use operational data to improve stability and performance of their domains. Actively collaborate with the security team, to foster and model a security first mindset and apply the organizations security strategy across multiple teams.Be able to guide teams through these processes and continuously improve this culture. Demonstrate and influence effective decision making and responsible actions, without having the total picture to handle risk, change, and uncertainty across several teams during routine business, as well as when in high pressure situations. Actively build a culture of knowledge sharing and documentation that is based on giving and receiving positive and constructive feedback. Use this as a base for continuous learning and capability building. Significantly contribute to function and organisation strategy, practices and planning by drawing on your expertise and thorough understanding of the work across multiple team domains. Actively models Telstra s values and facilitates inclusive discussions across multiple teams that create goal driven alignment with organisational strategy and principles, as well as identifying actionable continuous improvement opportunities. Contribute to recruitment of permanent employees, and partner resources to build highly productive teams. Ensure that co-workers are treated respectfully and without any form of discrimination, harassment or victimisation 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) 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. 10 years+ hands on experience in developing spring boot applications, in-depth knowledge of microservices architecture. Strong background in Programming Languages (Java/Python/Node.JS), Tools and Frameworks. Strong background in Software Product Architecture, Development, Testing, and Support of Production Software Involved into design and implementation of secure, scalable, fault tolerant systems in cloud (AWS) Experience with microservices architecture and development and container orchestration (docker, K8 or other containerisation tech) Experience with Operations decision making and incident management. Understanding of Security (Authentication and Authorisation) Experience with SQL and NoSQL DBs Experience in DevOps software development/deployment practices (including CI and CD), source control and pipelines as code, to reduce cycle time while retaining quality Understands version control and various branching strategies (what are the issues/benefits following branching strategies) Desirable: APIGEE or Nginx or similar API gateway experience Observability tools - New relic, Splunk, Datadog, ELK stack etc Experience in software performance improvements Well versed with Linux Job Description
Who We Are
Focus of the Role
This role as Staff Engineer is key to the success of the Financial Technology group at Telstra and will be responsible and accountable for the following:
Actively participate in building chapter technical capability through direct mentoring of the team in software engineering practices, understanding of new and emerging technologies, tools, approaches and processes. Contribute to continuous evolution of technical components managed by domain by working on technology and architecture roadmaps (mid-term and long-term views). Own the engineering operations for the services that the DevOps teams have deployed in production. Work across teams to foster an architecture that enables iterative, autonomous development and future scaling. Provide guidance to multiple teams in anticipation of future use cases, helping them make design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes. Acquire domain knowledge as needed to drive the work through customer centric lens. Build strong commercial capability across multiple teams by modelling well developed commercial thinking, balancing cost and value to decide the most economic action the delivers good outcomes. Foster a culture of observability across several teams and help them use operational data to improve stability and performance of their domains. Actively collaborate with the security team, to foster and model a security first mindset and apply the organizations security strategy across multiple teams.Be able to guide teams through these processes and continuously improve this culture. Demonstrate and influence effective decision making and responsible actions, without having the total picture to handle risk, change, and uncertainty across several teams during routine business, as well as when in high pressure situations. Actively build a culture of knowledge sharing and documentation that is based on giving and receiving positive and constructive feedback. Use this as a base for continuous learning and capability building. Significantly contribute to function and organisation strategy, practices and planning by drawing on your expertise and thorough understanding of the work across multiple team domains. Actively models Telstra s values and facilitates inclusive discussions across multiple teams that create goal driven alignment with organisational strategy and principles, as well as identifying actionable continuous improvement opportunities. Contribute to recruitment of permanent employees, and partner resources to build highly productive teams. Ensure that co-workers are treated respectfully and without any form of discrimination, harassment or victimisation
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)
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. 10 years+ hands on experience in developing spring boot applications, in-depth knowledge of microservices architecture. Strong background in Programming Languages (Java/Python/Node.JS), Tools and Frameworks. Strong background in Software Product Architecture, Development, Testing, and Support of Production Software Involved into design and implementation of secure, scalable, fault tolerant systems in cloud (AWS) Experience with microservices architecture and development and container orchestration (docker, K8 or other containerisation tech) Experience with Operations decision making and incident management. Understanding of Security (Authentication and Authorisation) Experience with SQL and NoSQL DBs Experience in DevOps software development/deployment practices (including CI and CD), source control and pipelines as code, to reduce cycle time while retaining quality Understands version control and various branching strategies (what are the issues/benefits following branching strategies)
Desirable:
APIGEE or Nginx or similar API gateway experience Observability tools - New relic, Splunk, Datadog, ELK stack etc Experience in software performance improvements Well versed with Linux
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