Backend Developers

Job Description: BACKEND DEVELOPER- JAVA

Key Accountabilities

Design, build, install, integrate and maintain software and integrations which implement product logic and processes to support customer, partner and Telstra employee control of complex network technologies and platforms for fixed network provisioning and operations

Translate customer (internal, external or regulatory) needs and requirements, using technical principles into reusable API based micro-services, data models, workflows, and integrations

Negotiate and agree on frontend and peer system integration API specifications to implement required user experience and end-to-end processes

Work with Product Owners and Technical Product Owners to develop business and technology roadmaps

Utilise on-premises and cloud technologies to deploy and host applications

Accountable for Backend Micro-Services, using Java

Use existing code repositories and CICD pipelines to deploy into development and production environments

Utilising Agile ceremonies and practices, lead planning, design and estimation sessions.

Integrate solutions by executing on security and operational requirements

Assess capability of third party and open source libraries and tools to meet business requirements and manage software supply chain delivery

Assess capability of internal libraries, tools, APIs and systems and offerings to meet business requirements

Develop platform-specific technology functionality for business requirements that leverage opportunities from evolving and future technologies

Participate in a DevOps and DevSecOps environment and team.

Qualifications/Experiences

A Tertiary qualification in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or similar discipline.

Typically, a minimum of 5-10 years experience working in an Operational and/or Software Engineering role and have expertise with a variety of deployment, automation, configuration management and optimisation tools.

Strong experience in one (or more) of the following technologies:

o Java

o JavaScript

Exposure to network automation, Software Defined Networking and NFVi concepts and technology

Proven programming experience that conforms to good software engineering design principles and practices (including version management). This includes experience with API integration.

Practical experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery pipelines. Enhancing and improving CI/CD capabilities to reduce cycle time while retaining quality

Experience designing and implementing Infrastructure-as-Code, such as Terraform

Experience in delivering projects as part of an agile teamand exposure to DevOps teams, practices and tools

Willingness to learn new technologies and keen to drive innovation

Excellent written and verbal communication, problem solving and time management skills

Strong interpersonal and consultative skills

Strong desire to learn and drive skills to expert level in the domain

Proactive and self-motivated.