Software Engineer

About the job

• Federal Government Role
• 12 months initial contract with 12 months potential extension
• Location: ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC, WA
• Hybrid work arrangements
• Australian Citizenship is mandatory / NV1 Preferred

Bridge IT Engineering is seeking Software Engineer for a federal government department with offices in the ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC, WA.

Key duties and responsibilities

• Implementing new systems, applications, and integrations, adhering to industry best practices and architectural principles.
• Design and implementation of software and CI/CD pipelines to solve complex problems including writing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and building containerised applications for Kubernetes.
• 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.

Essential criteria

1. Experience building complex APIs in a variety of languages, such as Golang and JavaScript/TypeScript. Using architectural patterns like REST and GraphQL.

2. Strong familiarity with Cloud infrastructure in AWS, including writing Infrastructure as Code, ideally using Terraform

3. Building containerised applications for deployment into Kubernetes using Docker and Helm

4. Experience writing accessible web applications using React and TypeScript

5. Expertise using DevOps practices, including creating CI/CD pipelines with GitHub/GitLab and tooling such as Artifactory and HashiCorp Vault

6. Familiarity with accessibility standards for web, such as WCAG 2.1

Desirable criteria

1. Mobile app development experience, using React Native or similar frameworks.

2. Database deployment and administration (Postgres and MySQL)

3. 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.

4. Ability to write automated testing write 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.

Your ICT Recruiter for this role

Shaheli Sengupta

[email protected]

*Please note only shortlisted candidates will be contacted