Senior Backend Engineer - Java, AWS & Microservices

Qantas Airways; Adelaide; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounted travel

Parental leave

Salary packaging

Wellbeing app

Job summary

Qantas Airways is seeking a Senior Back-End Developer to guide architecture and delivery of scalable software at our new Product Innovation Centre in Adelaide. You’ll lead backend design, develop high-quality code, and own system reliability, security, and performance.

The role focuses on Java, Spring Boot, microservices, API development and cloud-native solutions, with exposure to Kafka, databases, and observability tools. A hands-on expert eager to improve every release.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in a hands-on Software Engineering role.
• Experience leading the architecture and design of backend systems using Java and related technologies.
• Proficiency in API development, Microservices, SOA, messaging, and databases.
• Proven technology experience with Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS, Git, CI/CD, Kubernetes.
• Proficient in observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog and Splunk.
• CI/CD pipelines experience, preferably GitHub Actions.
• Strong focus on code quality, clean design and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Guide and design the architecture, delivery and development of software systems powering the business unit.
• Hands-on development to deliver high quality, well-designed software.
• Share responsibility for software quality, reliability, performance and data privacy.

Skills

Backend development

Architectural design

Java

API development

Microservices

SOA

CI/CD

Kubernetes

AWS

Datadog

Splunk

Git

Kafka

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Tools

Kafka

MySQL

PostgreSQL

AWS

Git

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Datadog

Splunk

Job description

Qantas Airways is seeking a Senior Back-End Developer to guide architecture and delivery of scalable software at our new Product Innovation Centre in Adelaide. You’ll lead backend design, develop high-quality code, and own system reliability, security, and performance.

The role focuses on Java, Spring Boot, microservices, API development and cloud-native solutions, with exposure to Kafka, databases, and observability tools. A hands-on expert eager to improve every release.