Senior Application Developers (Mobile)

  • Australia
  • Melbourne
  • Contract
  • AU$900 - AU$1200 per day

Our client is a federal government organisation with offices throughout Australia. Due to growth, they are seeking several Senior Application Developers (Mobile) to join their team in their Richmond or Geelong office.

  • 12-month initial contract plus 12-month extension, excellent rates negotiable
  • Richmond or Geelong location, hybrid with 3 days per week onsite minimum
  • Federal government role – Australian citizenship required

Key duties and responsibilities:

  • Implementing new mobile applications, systems and integrations, adhering to industry best practices and architectural principles.
  • Taking ownership of the design and implementation of software and CI/CD pipelines to solve complex problems.
  • Play a pivotal role in our project team, using an agile development framework.
  • Documenting all design and development work.
  • Actively participate in code reviews – both as the reviewer and the reviewee to ensure coding quality and standards are maintained.
  • Ensuring that any software produced meets the agency’s security requirements and standards.
  • Ensuring that any software produced meets accessibility expectations.
  • Collaborating with Business Analysts, Project Leads, and other IT teams to resolve issues to ensure solutions are viable and fit for purpose.
  • Collaborate closely with the Quality Assurance team to ensure effective test coverage early in the development cycle utilising a shift-left approach
  • Ensuring that solutions are pragmatic, value for money, and deliver on their intended purpose.

To apply for this opportunity, you will need the Selection Criteria below:
Essential criteria

  • Extensive experience developing and releasing mobile applications on both Android and iOS, using native tooling like Kotlin, Java, Swift and Objective-C as well as frameworks such as React Native
  • Familiarity with accessibility standards for web and mobile, such as WCAG 2.1
  • Expertise using DevOps practices, including creating CI/CD pipelines with GitHub/GitLab and tooling such as Artifactory and HashiCorp Vault
  • Ability to write automated unit, component, integration and functional tests. Must be able to work closely with QA teams to facilitate integration and end-to-end testing of complex systems
  • Familiarity converting UI designs into Mobile app components and working with UI/UX designers to achieve a unified vision
  • Experience integrating with various back-end APIs and services. Including internal APIs, as well as services like Firebase and various CMS systems

Desirable criteria

  • Experience in the early stages of developing a mobile app, including establishing the development environment framework and evaluation/choice of supporting tools and services
  • Experience writing accessible web applications using React and TypeScript
  • Ability to work across all stages of the SDLC, including creating technical designs, developing and deploying code, performing code reviews, and the long-term maintenance of code
  • Some experience developing back-end systems, in a variety of languages like Golang and JavaScript/TypeScript. This includes experience with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes with Helm

APPLY:
Submit your resume or contact Jarrodd at Jarrodd.edwards@talentinternational.com or call on 0438 661 623 for further information. Shortlisted will be contacted and applicants will be required to address and complete the above Selection Criteria and clear national police and federal background checks

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