Technical Lead, Backend & Microservices Architecture

Qantas Airways; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel discounts

Flexible leave

Employee discounts

Wellbeing program

Job summary

Qantas Airways, based at our Adelaide Product Innovation Centre, seeks a Software Technical Lead to guide a high‑caliber engineering group. You’ll drive full lifecycle delivery, mentor engineers, and shape backend solutions with Java, Spring Boot, and microservices.

You’ll partner with Product Managers to ensure scalable, high‑quality digital products that deliver real customer value, leveraging AWS, CI/CD, and modern observability.

Qualifications

• 10 years in systems development and integration, with 3+ years in tech leadership.
• Proven ability to mentor developers in best practices for software development.
• Experience guiding agile product discovery and delivery phases.
• Strong stakeholder collaboration to drive functional, efficient software.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team across the full development lifecycle, from discovery to deployment.
• Oversee architecture and design of backend systems for scalability and reliability.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to align software with business goals.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Agile product discovery

Stakeholder influence

Problem solving

Architectural vision

Java

Spring Boot

Kafka

MySQL

PostgreSQL

AWS

Git

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Observability

DevOps

Agile

Tools

Datadog

Splunk

JIRA

Confluence

Slack

Job description

Qantas Airways, based at our Adelaide Product Innovation Centre, seeks a Software Technical Lead to guide a high‑caliber engineering group. You’ll drive full lifecycle delivery, mentor engineers, and shape backend solutions with Java, Spring Boot, and microservices.

You’ll partner with Product Managers to ensure scalable, high‑quality digital products that deliver real customer value, leveraging AWS, CI/CD, and modern observability.