Engineering Lead

About Us
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.

About Us
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
Qantas Loyalty is a high performing business and has a history of launching exciting new brands and services that make a difference to its millions of Frequent Flyer and Business Rewards members. Qantas Frequent Flyer and Qantas Business Rewards remain at the core of the program, while the business has evolved to include a number of new ventures and other businesses such as Qantas Insurance, Qantas Money, Qantas Hotels & Holidays and Qantas Wine.
As an Engineering Lead for Insurance, you will be responsible for driving the development of our Insurance Platforms Services Layer, ensuring they are high-performing, reliable, and meet the needs of our customers. Mentoring and guiding a team of skilled Java developers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.




The Engineering Lead will use deep understanding of AWS, Java, Spring Framework and other relevant technologies to architect and implement scalable solutions in our cloud-designed microservices environment. They will oversee the software development lifecycle, from planning and design to deployment and maintenance, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality products.
The role works closely with product managers, business analysts, delivery managers, and other stakeholders to define technical requirements and deliver features that align with business goals. Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies, continually integrating new ideas and best practices to enhance our web applications.
You’ll Have

- Experience in Technical Leadership, and demonstrable ability to motivate self and others with a passion to mentor.
- Experience or interest in building and extending tooling and processes to improve developer productivity, delivery and consistency
- Strong communication skills with the ability to present technical requirements effectively to the business and across multidisciplinary teams
- Ability to identify and resolve complex technical challenges, ensuring the stability and reliability of our applications.
- Strong demonstrated technical experience in Java using spring framework, AWS, relational databases (MySQL, Postgres etc.), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform,



Ansible etc.), containerisation (Docker, ECS etc.).
- Robust proficiency to forge and reinforce strong software engineering principles and best practices
- Proven experience in developing, deploying, debugging, and testing.
- Confidence in applying patterns, techniques and approaches that ensure high-quality, highly flexible software.
- The ability to balance technical and communication skills and adjust to your audience.
- Attention to detail and a quality-focused mindset.
- An approachable attitude to educate, mentor and influence the team.

There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you’ll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. While you may start in this role, we’ve got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless.
The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel.

- We love to travel: 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.
- We have flexible leave options: 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.
- We’ll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment.You can also take advantage of our salary packaging program including motor vehicles, elig

📌 Engineering Lead (Sydney)
🏢 Qantas
📍 Sydney