Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia’s largest regional, domestic, and international airline. Qantas has a range of subsidiary businesses that support the overall operations of the Group. The Qantas Group’s main business is the transportation of customers and freight using two complementary airline brands — Qantas and Jetstar — operating regional, domestic, and international services.
Job Description
* At Qantas, our teams come together to create new and unique experiences for our customers.
* A fantastic opportunity to lead a team that focuses on cutting‑edge technology and engineering principles.
* Full-time and permanent position based at our new Product Innovation Centre in Adelaide.
The Software Technical Lead oversees a technical domain, integrates systems, applications and services and manages engineers within it. They combine deep software development expertise with leadership responsibilities, guiding teams through the full development lifecycle, from problem discovery and system design to deployment and maintenance of live code with a deep understanding of integration patterns and best practices. While involved in day‑to‑day delivery, they also focus on strategic planning and team leadership, collaborating closely with Product Managers to ensure software solutions deliver strong business and customer value aligned with strategic goals.
Qualifications
* 10 years of experience in systems development and implementation of integration solutions, 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 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 overseeing the architecture and design of applications, ensuring high‑quality deliverables that align with business objectives.
* Extensive experience leading the architecture and design of backend systems using Java and related technologies, ensuring scalability, reliability and performance.
* Expert knowledge in API development, microservices architecture, service‑oriented architecture, message queueing, event‑driven architecture, service mesh and databases.
* Proven technology experience with Java, Spring Boot, MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS, Git, CI/CD, Kubernetes.
* Proficient in observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog and Splunk.
* Extensive experience with Git, DevOps practices such as CI/CD, code analysis, reviews, etc.
* Experience implementing comprehensive observability, monitoring and alerting in highly available production environments.
* Automated testing tools and libraries.
* Unix/Linux or Windows administration, as appropriate, SQL database and other data store variants, such as PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis.
* Knowledge and experience of cloud platforms such as AWS, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, Kubernetes, etc.
* Proven experience in performance optimization and security considerations in cloud‑based applications.
* Confidence in estimating effort for design and development tasks.
* Familiarity with collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and Slack for effective team communication and project management.
Benefits
* 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.
* Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave and the option to purchase additional paid leave for eligible employees.
* Access thousands of rewards: discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment through partnerships, plus a salary packaging program including motor vehicles, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships.
* Support for wellbeing: learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, an interactive wellbeing app or a tailored nutrition plan.
Qantas is an equal‑opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, as well as people of all backgrounds, to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application. Your personal information will be kept confidential in compliance with relevant privacy legislation.
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