Senior Mobile App Developer

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 Surry Hills 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 Anna at [email protected]. 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