Software Technical Lead

• Great opportunity within our Qantas Airline Business Unit
• Permanent role working at our Mascot head office (hybrid working options available)
• Staff Travel Benefits from Day One

As a Software Technical Lead, you will use your knowledge and experience to lead a team of software engineers through the design development and maintenance of digital products and services. Whilst it’s important to have some involvement in the day-to-day work of software delivery, there is also a managerial and strategic planning role.

You will work closely with Product Managers to maximise value and align with strategic business goals. Beyond the immediate product teams, you contribute to the overall technical vision and effectiveness of the organisation as member of the Integration and Automation Domain.

You’ll have:

• 10 years’ experience in systems development and implementation, including at least 3+ years in tech leadership roles
• Proven experience in technical leadership and demonstrable ability to inspire and mentor less experienced developers in best practices for software development
• Experience in guiding teams through agile product discovery and delivery phases
• Experience working with technical and non-technical partners, with the capability to influence stakeholders to drive functional, efficient, and maintainable software
• Experience in overseeing the architecture and design of applications, ensuring high-quality deliverables that align with business objectives
• Expert knowledge of the Java language, Springboot framework, and microservices architecture
• Extensive experience with Git, DevOps practices such as CI/CD, code analysis, reviews etc
• Experience implementing comprehensive observability, monitoring and alerting in high availability production environments
• Confidence researching and troubleshooting bugs and performance bottlenecks in production environments
• Experience in designing and implementing service mesh architecture for microservices and event driven integrations using Kafka
• Thorough knowledge and experience with Unit, Integration, System, End to End, UAT, PVT testing and embedding best practice quality assurance within project teams
• Knowledge and experience of cloud platforms such as AWS-EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, Kubernetes etc
• Proven experience in performance optimization and security considerations in cloud-based applications
• Confidence estimating effort for design and development tasks
• Familiarity with collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and Slack for effective team communication and project management

Why Qantas? 

If you’re successful in your application, 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 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 its learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan. 

Applications Close: 11:59pm Friday 28 February 2025