Sr Software Engineer - Android Developer

Employment Type Permanent

Job Title Senior Software Engineer - Android Developer

Job Summary

As a Senior Software Engineer (Android) in the Self Service Mobile Apps chapter, you apply deep native Android expertise to design, build, test, release and support secure, reliable and accessible mobile experiences for Telstra consumer and small business customers, with a primary focus on the My Telstra app.

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.

What is the focus of the role

What You ll Do

Product Technology - Software Engineering IT develops and maintains Telstras software and IT systems, working on some really cutting-edge technologies.

As the Senior Software Engineer, you will use your advanced software engineering knowledge to deliver complex application capabilities and improve the health of Telstras many digital assets. You will translate customer and business needs into maintainable technical solutions, contributes to architectural decisions, champion quality and security, and supports software across the full development lifecycle. Working in a team that works directly on the Telstra Self Service App and many other B2B customer applications, you will identify areas of improvement while being forward thinking demonstrating your ability to identify improvement areas and facilitate solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and optimise native Android applications using Kotlin and modern Android frameworks, with a focus on scalable, reusable and maintainable solutions.

• Deliver high-quality, secure and accessible software through automated testing, code reviews, CI/CD practices and engineering best practices.

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex performance, reliability and production issues using debugging, profiling, logging and observability tools.

• Own features end-to-end, from technical design and development through to release, production support and continuous improvement.

• Partner with Product, Design, Architecture and Engineering teams to deliver customer-focused outcomes and influence technical direction.

• Provide technical leadership through mentoring, stakeholder engagement, knowledge sharing and driving engineering excellence across the team.

  About You

You have strong Android development technology experience combined with excellent stakeholder management, engagement and presentation skills. You thrive in a role that is autonomous yet collaborative while working in an Agile team embedded in CI/CD best practice. You understand customer needs and use this knowledge to advise development teams and product Managers on best engineering solutions in line with Tech capabilities and ability to manage multiple sprint priorities as required.

Essential Skills and Technologies

• Kotlin

• Jetpack Compose

• Android development

• APIs

• microservices

• CI/CD

• automated testing

• debugging

• GitHub Copilot

  Nice to have

• Relevant Android, Google, cloud, security, accessibility, AI or agile certifications.

• IOS Development experience and desire to grow in this space

• Experience with Android architecture evolution, modularisation, design systems, accessibility and application performance at scale.

• Experience working in large-scale digital product environments with multiple delivery teams and shared platforms.

• Basic understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), its common use cases and the evolving AI market landscape.

• Ability to create and configure AI agents and reusable skills for defined engineering or business use cases.

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