API Engineer – Java, Spring Boot & Cloud APIs

Great Southern Bank (Formerly CUA); City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Study leave

Wellbeing coaching

Wellbeing centre

Flexible work from home

Job summary

Great Southern Bank in Brisbane is hiring an API Engineer to design, build and support secure, scalable APIs across digital channels. You’ll work with Java, Spring Boot and modern cloud technologies to empower customer experiences and automate delivery.

The role spans junior to senior levels with opportunities to own complex API solutions and influence engineering practices within the team. Strong collaboration with security and platform teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Software engineering experience focused on API design and development, varied by level.
• Hands-on experience developing APIs using Java and Spring Boot.
• Understanding of API standards, integration patterns and reusable service design.
• Experience deploying or supporting applications in containerised or cloud environments such as OpenShift or AWS.
• Familiarity with automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and supporting domain APIs using Java, Spring Boot and API standards.
• Applying reusable API patterns to deliver scalable, maintainable integration services.
• Building automated testing and CI/CD into delivery for quality and resilience.
• Engineering APIs with observability, monitoring, performance and scalability.
• Deploying and supporting APIs across OpenShift and AWS.
• Integrating APIs with identity and access management for secure auth.
• Collaborating with engineers, architects, security and platform teams.
• Identifying opportunities to improve automation and efficiency.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

API design

CI/CD

Observability

Testing

Tools

OpenShift

AWS

Job description

Great Southern Bank in Brisbane is hiring an API Engineer to design, build and support secure, scalable APIs across digital channels. You’ll work with Java, Spring Boot and modern cloud technologies to empower customer experiences and automate delivery.

The role spans junior to senior levels with opportunities to own complex API solutions and influence engineering practices within the team. Strong collaboration with security and platform teams is essential.