Company Description 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.  Join Qantas in our brand-new Product Innovation Centre located in Adelaide by ensuring consumer needs are met, guiding the development of high-quality, scalable digital solutions that deliver real customer value, leveraging deep technical expertise and strategic alignment with user-centric goals.  As a Software Technical Lead, you will influence the development of our mobile technology ensuring high performance, quality, and responsiveness.
Mentor and guide a team of skilled mobile developers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. Apply your expertise in iOS and backend development to architect, build, and evolve scalable, production-grade solutions. The Software Technical Lead will oversee the software development lifecycle, from planning and design to deployment and maintenance, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality products.
You will work closely with product managers, designers, 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 mobile applications. Identify and resolve complex technical challenges, ensuring the stability and reliability of our applications.
You’ll have: Experience in Technical Leadership, and demonstrable ability to motivate self and others with a passion to mentor. Demonstrated experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale, business-critical applications within complex enterprise environments. Strong technical understanding and expertise in mobile app development and delivery. Deep knowledge of iOS application development in Swift using technologies and tools like SwiftUI, Async/Await, SPM, Swift Concurrency and Push Notifications Working experience with back-end technologies preferred (i.e Node, Java, Spring / Spring Boot, etc and databases PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, etc).
Proven expertise in designing testable software and applying effective automated testing strategies to deliver high-quality, reliable applications. Familiarity with leveraging AI-assisted development workflows across the software development lifecycle to improve productivity, code quality, and delivery outcomes. Experience with SOLID principles and common patterns such as MVVM Understanding of cloud native development on platforms such as AWS, including deployment, scaling, and operational considerations Containerisation technology concepts, such as Docker and Kubernetes Experience with CI/CD pipelines (preferably GitHub Actions), version control, and automated testing practices.
A real passion for quality, clean code and continuous improvement Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate technical requirements effectively to the business and across multidisciplinary teams Strong ability to forge and reinforce strong software engineering principles and best practices Confidence in applying patterns, techniques and approaches that ensure high-quality, highly flexible software.
The ability to balance technical and communicatio