Senior iOS / Android Developer | Federal Government

Senior iOS / Android Software Engineer (Developer)

Australian citizenship required. No PR or Work Visa holders. Must be able to obtain Baseline security clearance.

What To Submit

• A tailored resume in docx format
• A one page (5000 character) summary response to the selection criteria below.
  
  
  

RFQ Details

• RFQ ID: LH-05820
• Agency: Services Australia
• Closing Date: Tuesday, 07 April 2026 – 11:59pm (Canberra time)
• Estimated Start Date: Wednesday, 01 July 2026
• Initial Contract Duration: 12 months
• Extension Term: Other
• Experience Level: Senior – EL1 equivalent
• Security Clearance: Must be able to obtain Baseline
• Location of Work: QLD, ACT, VIC, SA
• Working Arrangements:
  
  
  

Hybrid. Canberra preferred, will consider Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide. The Labour Hire Worker is to work from the RFQ location on a full-time basis for the first 6 weeks. A hybrid WFH arrangement, usually a minimum of 3 days/week onsite, will be considered thereafter.

• Maximum Hours: 40 hours per week
  
  
  

Job Details

Software Engineers also known as Development Experts have experience overseeing software development projects, writing optimised code, and provide technical leadership to a team of software engineers. They are responsible for the quality and functionality of the software produced by their team.

Android / iOS Mobile Development Experts have an in-depth understanding of the technology landscape and components affected by projects and changes within their remit. They demonstrate proven programming expertise and consistently apply industry best practices.

These experts design and develop high-quality solutions that meet business and technical requirements by solving highly complex problems. They undertake technical leadership roles and may be responsible for team management or contribute to leading the team.

Working in multi-disciplinary teams, they make autonomous decisions under broad senior direction. They drive innovation, lead change, and help shape and implement the department's strategic direction.

Key Duties And Responsibilities

• Experience developing native Android applications using Java or Jetpack Compose, with a strong focus on code quality, performance optimisation, and intuitive user experience
  
  
  

OR

• Experience developing native iOS applications with SwiftUI, maintaining high engineering standards and delivering intuitive user experiences
• Strong software development skills with modern SDK tools and frameworks
• Experience designing and integrating with backend services via RESTful APIs, GraphQL, or other modern API architectures
• Proficient in Git version control and collaborative development workflows (GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket)
• Strong commitment to software craftsmanship, writing clean, testable, and maintainable code
• Experience with agile workflows including CI/CD, automated testing, and iterative delivery
• Drive design patterns, architectural frameworks, and governance standards
• Contribute to technical direction, iteration planning, and delivery approaches
• Lead prototyping, development cycles, and code reviews
• Facilitate design discussions with stakeholders and customer experience teams
• Collaborate with executives, product managers, and technical experts to deliver strategic outcomes
• Desirable experience developing with wearable technology
  
  
  

Technical Skills

• Android: Kotlin, Java
• iOS: Swift, SwiftUI
• Frameworks: Jetpack Compose, SwiftUI, Android Jetpack, Combine, UIKit
• Architecture: MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture, Dependency Injection
• Testing: JUnit, Espresso, XCTest, Mockito, UI Testing
• Tools: Android Studio, Xcode, Git, Jenkins, Fastlane
• APIs: RESTful, GraphQL, WebSocket, JSON/XML
• DevOps: CI/CD, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps
• 3+ years Android or iOS development experience
• Agile experience
  
  
  

Selection Criteria

The buyer has specified that each candidate must provide a one page pitch to address all criteria specified. This is equal to 5000 characters.

Essential Criteria

• Emerging technology monitoring: Level 5 (SFIA)
  
  
  

Monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies. Assesses and documents the impacts, threats and opportunities to the organisation. Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others.

• Methods and tools: Level 5 (SFIA)
  
  
  

Provides advice, guidance and expertise to promote adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards. Evaluates and selects appropriate methods and tools in line with agreed policies and standards. Contributes to organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for methods and tools. Implements methods and tools at programme, project and team levels including selection and tailoring in line with agreed standards. Manages reviews of the benefits and value of methods and tools. Identifies and recommends improvements.

• Programming/software development: Level 5 (SFIA)
  
  
  

Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development. Plans and drives software construction activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques. Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development.

• Release and deployment: Level 5 (SFIA)
  
  
  

Leads the assessment, analysis, planning and design of release packages, including assessment of risk. Liaises with business and technology teams on release scheduling and communication of progress. Conducts post-release reviews. Ensures that release processes and procedures are applied and that releases can be rolled back as needed. Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of appropriate release and deployment techniques, processes and automation tools.

• Software configuration: Level 5 (SFIA)
  
  
  

Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of configuration development and deployment. Plans and drives software configuration activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software configuration methods, tools and techniques. Measures and monitors the application of standards for configuration design and deployment including software security. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software configuration design and deployment.

• Software design: Level 4 (SFIA)
  
  
  

Designs complex software applications, components and modules. Uses appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, guidelines, patterns and methodology. Creates and communicates multiple design views to balance stakeholders' concerns and to satisfy functional and non-functional requirements. Identifies, evaluates and recommends alternative design options and trade-offs. Models, simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed software to enable approval by stakeholders, and effective construction of the software. Verifies software design by constructing and applying appropriate methods. Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications. Leads reviews of others designs.

• Specialist advice: Level 4 (SFIA)
  
  
  

Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism to the organisation's planning and operations. Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms. Recognises and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge. Where appropriate, collaborates with other specialists to ensure advice given is appropriate to the organisation's needs.

• Systems design: Level 5 (SFIA)
  
  
  

Designs large or complex systems and undertakes impact analysis on major design options and trade-offs. Ensures that the system design balances functional and non-functional requirements. Reviews systems designs and ensures that appropriate methods, tools and techniques are applied effectively. Makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks. Adopts and adapts system design methods, tools and techniques. Contributes to development of system design policies, standards and selection of architecture components.

• Systems integration and build: Level 5 (SFIA)
  
  
  

Plans and drives activities to develop organisational systems integration and build capabilities including automation and continuous integration. Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of tools, techniques and processes to create a robust integration framework. Provides authoritative advice and guidance on any aspect of systems integration. Leads integration work in line with the agreed system and service design. Assesses risks and takes preventative action. Measures and monitors applications of standards. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for systems integration.

• Testing: Level 4 (SFIA)
  
  
  

Selects appropriate testing approach, including manual and automated testing. Develops and executes test plans and test cases. Implements scalable and reliable automated tests and frameworks. Collaborates across parties involved in product, systems or service design and development to enable comprehensive test coverage. Identifies improvements in requirements, design or specification processes to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of testing. Analyses and reports on test activities, results, issues and risks, including the work of others.

Desirable criteria

• Configuration management: Level 2 (SFIA)
  
  
  

Applies tools, techniques and processes to administer, track, log, report on and correct configuration items, components and changes. Assists with audits to check the accuracy of the information and undertakes any necessary corrective action under direction.