Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Qantas; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounted air travel

Flexible leave options

Wellbeing support

Rewards & partnerships

Job summary

A leading airline in Sydney is seeking a Mid-Senior level backend developer to manage programming tasks and deliver cloud applications. Ideal candidates will have experience in Java or Kotlin, and strong communication skills. The role includes benefits such as discounted travel and flexible leave options, prioritizing personal and professional growth.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in developing, deploying, debugging and testing backend cloud applications.
• Knowledge of at least one backend programming language (Kotlin / Java).
• Ability to learn and adapt to cross-functional requirements.
• Attention to detail and a quality-focused mindset.
• Ability to learn and adapt to cross-functional requirements from various domains.

Responsibilities

• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents.
• Manage programming task schedule updates and coordinate with multiple teams.
• Deliver high quality, robust, secure and maintainable code.
• Identify, analyse and correct issues in backend REST services (e.g., performance issues, downstream service failures).
• Deliver high quality, robust and secure code.
• Discuss functional requirements directly with domain stakeholders and implement APIs.
• Build dashboards to monitor server health and write automated tests for backend services.

Skills

Developing backend applications

Debugging and testing

Strong communication skills

Attention to detail

Adaptability

Learning & adaptability

Tools

Java

Kotlin

AWS

Git

Git/GitHub Actions

Job description

About Us

Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia’s largest regional, domestic, and international airline. The Qantas Group’s main business is the transportation of customers and freight using two complementary airline brands — Qantas and Jetstar — operating regional, domestic, and international services.

Job Description

Qantas Loyalty is a high performing business and has a history of launching exciting new brands and services that make a difference to its millions of Frequent Flyer and Business Rewards members. Qantas Frequent Flyer and Qantas Business Rewards remain at the core of the program, while the business has evolved to include several new ventures and other businesses such as Qantas Money, Qantas Insurance and Qantas Hotels & Holidays.

Responsibilities

• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents.
• Manage programming task schedule updates and coordinate with multiple teams.
• Bug fixes and maintenance of existing systems deployed on cloud providers.
• Identify, analyse and correct issues in backend REST services (e.g., performance issues, downstream service failures).
• Deliver high quality, robust, secure and maintainable code.
• Discuss functional requirements directly with domain stakeholders and implement APIs to communicate these requirements.
• Build dashboards to monitor the health of a server and write automated tests that validate backend service functionality.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in developing, deploying, debugging and testing backend cloud applications.
• Knowledge of at least one backend programming language (Kotlin / Java).
• Strong communication skills with the ability to adjust to different audiences.
• Attention to detail and a quality-focused mindset.
• Ability to learn and adapt to cross-functional requirements from various domains.
• Technologies you’ll be working with: Java, Kotlin, Ktor, Spring Boot, AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, ELB, S3, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, AutoScaling), Splunk, Git, Github Actions.

Why Qantas?

You’ll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to dream big and deliver successfully. There are many opportunities across our team, offering personal and professional growth. Your development is a priority, with on-the-job training, coaching and formal training opportunities. We have a track record of supporting career directions across the organization.

Benefits

• We love to travel: heavily discounted air travel within Australia and globally for you, family, and friends, plus exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays.
• Flexible leave options: including 18 weeks paid parental leave (plus superannuation on paid and unpaid leave until your child turns 1) and additional purchased leave for eligible employees.
• Access to thousands of rewards through partnerships across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment; salary packaging options available.
• Wellbeing support: resources for mental health, wellbeing app, and tailored nutrition plans.

Applications will close by the 16th of September

Job details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Information Technology
• Industries: Airlines and Aviation