TECHNICAL LEAD

Coforge; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Coforge Technologies Australia Pty Ltd in Sydney is seeking a Software Engineer to design, develop, test, deploy, and support integration solutions across applications and partner systems. The role emphasizes Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, REST APIs and microservices.

You will work with architects, product owners, and operations to ensure reliable delivery, conduct code reviews, and contribute to CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and documentation.

Qualifications

• Extensive Java and Spring Boot experience.
• Strong microservices and integration design expertise.
• Experience with Apache Kafka and REST API design.
• Proven ability to design, test, deploy, and troubleshoot integration solutions.

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements and translate into integration solutions.
• Develop and maintain Java/Spring Boot microservices.
• Design REST APIs and event-driven integrations.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and deployments.
• Monitor services and troubleshoot production issues.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

REST APIs

Apache Kafka

CI/CD

Testing (JUnit)

Git

Cloud platforms

Observability

Tools

Harness

Renovate

Codex

Job description

Entity – Coforge Technologies Australia Pty Ltd

Occupation – Software Engineer

Location – Sydney

Duration – Permanent

Job Description

Role Summary

The Technical Lead will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting integration solutions across various applications, platforms, and external partner systems. The role requires strong experience in Java, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, REST APIs, microservices.

Key Responsibilities

Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into integration solutions.

Build and use approved AI-assisted engineering tools (Preferable Codex) for API design, code generation, testing, and automated reviews.

Design, develop, and maintain Java and Spring Boot microservices.

Design and implement REST APIs and event-driven integrations.

Develop and support Apache Kafka producers, consumers, topics, and consumer groups.

Implement appropriate partitioning, offset management, retry, error-handling, and dead-letter-queue strategies.

Ensure reliable processing through idempotency, schema management, and suitable delivery guarantees.

Create unit and integration tests using JUnit and related testing frameworks.

Conduct code reviews and ensure compliance with engineering, security, testing, and documentation standards.

Work closely with architects, product owners, business analysts, developers, testers, and operational teams.

Troubleshoot application and integration issues across development, testing, and production environments.

Support CI/CD pipelines and application deployments.

Monitor integration services, Kafka workloads, system performance, logs, and alerts.

Investigate production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement permanent fixes.

Produce and maintain technical designs, support documentation, and operational procedures.

Participate in Agile ceremonies, technical discussions, estimation, and delivery planning.

Required Technical Skills

Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot.

Strong understanding of microservices and integration design patterns.

AI Toolchain: Familiarity with secure AI coding assistants, automated guardrails, and LLM tool integration patterns.

Agentic Software development using Codex to build Spring Boot backends with experience generating regression tests in Harness and with good understanding of Renovate platform.

Practical experience designing and consuming REST APIs.

Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, including producers, consumers, topics, partitions, offsets, consumer groups, retries, and dead-letter queues.

Experience with JUnit, unit testing, integration testing, and mocking frameworks.

Understanding of event-driven architecture, asynchronous processing, and idempotent consumer design.

Experience with Git, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployments.

Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and root-cause-analysis skills.

Experience supporting applications in production environments.

Good written and verbal communication skills.

Experience with cloud platforms and containerized applications.

Knowledge of observability and monitoring tools.

Understanding of API security, authentication, authorization, and data protection.

Experience with schema management and event-schema evolution.

Previous experience working with airline, travel, or other large enterprise platforms.

Familiarity with Agile software-delivery practices.