Senior Software Engineer - Back End

• Great opportunity within our Qantas Hotels & Holidays Team
• Permanent opportunity working at our Collingwood office (Hybrid working options available)
• Staff Travel Benefits from Day 1

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 a number of new ventures and other businesses such as Qantas Money, Qantas Insurance, Qantas Hotels & Holidays. This particular role is for Qantas Hotels & Holidays.

Senior Software Engineers at Qantas are responsible for guiding and leading feature development of the software that powers our business unit. They bring experience to both code and mentor other technical team members to deliver high-quality, well-designed software, using their depth and breadth of experience to help guide the team with a strong sense of pragmatism: knowing how much design work is enough, how much testing is enough, to maximise team efficiency. They will spot code design problems early and lead the work to address them.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• 5+ years of experience as a professional software engineer

• Proficiency in Clojure 

• History of solving challenging technical problems, from design to implementation

• High quality coding standards, following industry best practices

• Ability to handle ambiguous, open-ended problems

• Ability to interface and collaborate with business stakeholders, as well as engineering staff

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Passion for sharing knowledge with others

• Additional familiarity with:

  • AWS

  • Databases (Postgres, DynamoDB, Redis)

  • Message queues and streams (SQS, Kinesis)

  • Microservice architecture

  • Docker

  • BuildKite

  • GitHub Actions

Please note: applications will only be considered for candidates who have the right to work in Australia without restriction or sponsorship. 

Why Qantas?

You’ll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to enable us to dream big and deliver successfully.

There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you’ll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. Your development is a priority for us – so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time. You’ll be supported from day 1 with on the job training and coaching and our formal training opportunities. While you may start in this role, we’ve got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless.

The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel.

• We love to travel: Enjoy discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays.

• We have flexible leave options: We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave (plus superannuation payments on all paid and unpaid parental leave until your child turns 1) and additional purchased leave options for eligible employees.

• We’ll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment. You can also take advantage of our salary packaging for everything from motor vehicles to electronic devices.

• We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether it's learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan.

Qantas is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. By coming to work for us, you’ll be part of an organisation that encourages diversity, supports charities and environmental initiatives. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and people of all backgrounds to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application. Your personal information will be kept confidential in compliance with relevant privacy legislation.

Applications Close: 11:59pm Wednesday 5 March 2025