Employment Type

Permanent

Closing Date

4 Feb 2026 11:59pm

Job Title

Senior Software Engineer

Job Summary

As a Senior Software Engineer, you thrive on understanding and translating customer needs into new products and capability. You apply deep technical expertise and experience in software application layer solutions, to develop and deliver scalable design blueprints across the end-to-end software development life cycle. Your continuous learning and improvement mindset, collaboration and influencing skills are critical to success in this role.

Job Description

Who We Are

We're an iconic Aussie brand with a global footprint. Our purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. We're all about providing the best experience and delivering the best tech on the best network.

This includes making Telstra the place you want to work. For you, that means a having career that grows with you and working with a team powered by human connection that prioritises wellbeing and choice.

What We Offer

• Performance-related pay 

• Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up 

• Global presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business.

• Purchased annual leave scheme 

• Additional Telstra day off 

• Additional 30% off Telstra products and services

• Toolkit provided (laptop + mobile phone + plan paid for)

What You’ll Do

Product & Technology - Software Engineering & IT develops and maintains Telstra's software and IT systems, working on some really cutting-edge technologies. Responsibilities will include.

• Technical leadership and problem solving through engineering initiatives.

• Use in-depth understanding of Telstra landscape, ecosystem, to rapidly synthesize the requirement, and deliver the effective solutions.

• Aid engineering teams to continuously capture their software footprint enabling them to continuously measure themselves against industry standard metrics and coach and mentor the teams on identifying improvement opportunities.

• Empower and support stakeholders across the organisation to adopt Software metrics by providing subject matter expertise to influence the adoption.

• Develop innovative software that maintains data/network security management, leveraging set processes to reduce the time to production.

• Continuously explore the responsible use of AI to quickly and effectively deliver solutions.

• Translate customer needs into leading-edge software application products, services or systems that meet Telstra’s time, cost, and quality standards.

• Seek diverse viewpoints from colleagues in your team and apply analytical thinking to resolve complex problems that don’t have an immediate or ‘tried-and-tested’ solution.

• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives of our systems and processes, apply ‘best practice’ corporate testing standards and our quality assurance approach to drive improved outcomes (e.g., productivity, customer experience and/or profitability)

• Apply a continuous learning and development mindset to your work, using tried and tested methodologies but also finding opportunities to experiment to incrementally improve or resolve challenges.

About You

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience of leading large software teams and/or programs

• Experience in leading engineering outcomes across all aspects of software development life cycle – solution, design, build, test, operate.

• Experience in leading teams which work on

• Java or php

• Database Technologies – MySQL, Oracle, Cloud

• Microsoft PowerBI

• Ability to innovatively pitch software ideas based on problem statements, progress to solution, experiment, continuously evolve directly working with stakeholders

• Strong knowledge and implementation experience of FLOW and DORA metrics:

• DORA – Software Delivery Performance Metrics, Flow Framework – Value Stream Metrics, CICD Metrics, Quality Metrics

• Strong experience in quality engineering with ability to contribute defining and implementing improvement initiatives on testing cycles velocity, efficiency and effectiveness

• Strong ability with proven experience in defining best practices and improvement strategies based on industry standard metrics across large number of teams – across development, testing, operations, resilience, security

• Proven mentoring and coaching experience for engineers on best practices, standards, continuous improvements

Highly Desired

• Ability to gather, preprocess, and manage data required for AI and ML algorithms

• Strong documentation and presentation skills

• Knowledge on industry standards, best practices on how to effectively use Insights to empower an organisation

• Familiarity with partner engagement from an engineering perspective for improved partner performance using engineering metrics, insights, standards and practices

• Azure certified or well experienced

We're amongst the top 2% of companies globally in the CDP Global Climate Change Index 2023, being awarded an 'A' rating. If you want to work for a company that cares about sustainability, we want to hear from you.

As part of your application with Telstra, you may receive communications from us on +61 440 135 548 (for job applications in Australia) and +1 (623) 400-7726 (for job applications in the Philippines and India).

When you join our team, you become part of a welcoming and inclusive community where everyone is respected, valued and celebrated. We actively seek individuals from various backgrounds, ethnicities, genders and disabilities because we know that diversity not only strengthens our team but also enriches our work. We have zero tolerance for harassment of any kind, and we prioritise creating a workplace culture where everyone is safe and can thrive.  

As part of the hiring process, all identified candidates will undergo a background check, and the results will play a role in the final decision regarding your application.

We work flexibly at Telstra. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you. When you apply, you can share your pronouns and / or any reasonable adjustments needed to take part equitably during the recruitment process.

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