Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and event-driven solutions using modern engineering practices and Domain-Driven Design principles.
- Deliver secure, reliable, high-quality software through automated testing, CI/CD, observability, performance tuning, and performance-focused engineering standards.
- Diagnose and resolve complex production, integration, and performance issues using logging, tracing, metrics, and debugging tools.
- Own solutions end-to-end from technical design and development through deployment, production support, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with Product, Architecture, Security, and Platform teams to deliver business outcomes and influence technical direction.
- Provide technical leadership through mentoring, stakeholder engagement, knowledge sharing, and driving engineering excellence across teams.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of advanced backend engineering experience with Java, Spring Boot, APIs, microservices, and Domain-Driven Design.
- Experience developing frontend applications with React.js or similar frameworks.
- Strong experience designing cloud-native architectures using AWS, Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes, including end-to-end production ownership.
- Deep knowledge of event-driven architecture, Kafka, Redis Streams, enterprise messaging patterns, and asynchronous processing at scale.
- Experience delivering secure, reliable, quality-focused software using automated testing, CI/CD, observability, performance tuning, and modern engineering practices.
- Proven use of AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot while maintaining security, governance, and engineering standards.
- Technical leadership, sound engineering judgment, communication skills, mentoring experience, stakeholder influence, and a continuous-improvement mindset.
- Preferred qualifications include cloud, security, API, AI, or Agile certifications; experience with AWS serverless platforms, modern backend frameworks, and enterprise API management tools; and knowledge of AI model selection, token optimization, AI agents, RAG, and agentic patterns.
Benefits
- Permanent employment with performance-related pay.
- Access to thousands of learning programs and opportunities to work across Telstra's global presence in 22 countries.
- Up to 26 weeks of maternity leave and up to 16 weeks of paid paternity leave.
- 21 days of paid annual leave and 12 days of paid sick or casual leave per calendar year for eligible employees.
- Relocation support options across India.
- Medical, accidental, and life insurance benefits.
- Flexible working arrangements; applicants can discuss what flexibility means to them.
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About Telstra
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