Senior Software Engineer - Backend

• Challenge yourself & add significant value to Qantas Group
• At Qantas Loyalty, our teams come together to create new and unique customer experiences
• Permanent role based in Mascot, Sydney              

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, Qantas Wine and Qantas Hotels & Holidays.

As a Senior Backend Engineer you’ll be reviewing requirements, specifications and technical design documents. You’ll manage programming task schedule updates and coordinate with multiple teams. Bug fixes and maintenance of the existing systems which are deployed on Cloud server providers. Identify, analyse and correct common issues in a multi-threaded game engine, such as load times, memory usage and CPU/GPU performance. Deliver high quality, robust, secure and maintainable code

In this role a typical day may involve discussing functional requirements directly with various domain stakeholders and implementing APIs to communicate these requirements, building dashboards to monitor the health of a server and writing automated tests that validate a weight and balance calculation.

You’ll have:

• Proven experience in developing, deploying, debugging and testing backend cloud applications
• Good technical skills and demonstrable knowledge of at least one backend programming language Kotlin / Java.
• Confidence in balancing both technical and communication skills, with the ability to adjust to your audience.
• Attention to detail and a quality-focused mindset.
• Be comfortable learning and adapting to cross functional requirements from various domains
• Some of the technologies you’ll be working with:
  • Java & Kotlin, Ktor, Spring Boot
  • AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, ELB, S3, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, Autoscaling)
  • Splunk
  • Git, Github Actions

We’re committed to helping you build your career. With the support of your manager, let’s start a conversation about making your next move.

Why Qantas?  

You’ll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to allow 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 as well as 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 heavily 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: 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 program including motor vehicles, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships.  
• 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. 

Applications will close by the 16th of September