Software Developers. 12 Month Maximum Term Contract Full Time – Location Flexible

Job no: 505725

Employment type: Full Time

Location: Newcastle, Maitland & Hunter, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne

Categories: Information & Communication Technology

About the Organisation

Make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable Australians with this unique opportunity to provide both corporate expertise and community support. With a focus on people, not profit, Life Without Barriers' corporate services team partners with our direct support staff to ensure we continue our mission to change lives for the better. If a truly inclusive, collaborative, and fast-paced work environment sounds like your next career move, this is an opening not to be missed.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people, and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers. Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the Role

As a Software Developer, you will play a key role as part of our existing Digital Team on a transformational project for Life Without Barriers.

You will help build the software systems that power a new, mobile first frontline application, aimed at reducing administrative burden, delivering timely insights and enabling frontline staff to spend more time supporting the people we serve across Child Youth & Family, Disability & Mental Health and Aged Care services.

You will collaborate with AI Engineers, Solution Architects, UX Designers and business stakeholders to ensure the software and application components are robust, well integrated and aligned to our organisational goals.

These are 12-month full-time maximum term contract roles. As the organisation explores scaling AI capability, if the role demonstrates clear value to the business, additional funding may be sought to continue building this capability within the organisation. Location is flexible.

Key Responsibilities

• Share technical responsibility for all stages of the software development lifecycle in collaboration with senior developers and solution architects.
• Develop applications aligned with modern best practices, agile methodology and enterprise architecture standards.
• Engage with product managers, designers, QA, business analysts and stakeholders to deliver high quality product features that are both fit for purpose and fit for use.
• Work daily in pair and mob programming sessions when required, whilst actively collaborating and contributing ideas.
• Participate in peer code reviews to maintain code quality and consistency.
• Contribute to design discussions and propose scalable solutions.
• Write and maintain unit and integration tests and support automated deployment processes.
• Assist with coordinated production releases and adhere to change management policies.
• Implement proactive monitoring, logging and alerting to ensure stability and scalability.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for internal knowledge sharing and system support.
• Support integration of AI technologies and ensure software components align with AI platform capabilities.

Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Solid experience with agile development.
• Work effectively in a remote first team using remote collaboration tools e.g. Teams, Slack, Atlassian Suite, Miro etc)
• Experience working in a continuous delivery environment using CI/CD pipelines and feature flags.
• Practical experience with cloud environments, preferably AWS and serverless services including Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, etc.-
• Strong TypeScript, JavaScript and React skills
• Experience with test automation frameworks (e.g. vitest, jest, cypress, playwright)
• Understanding of DevOps practices and culture and infrastructure-as-code (e.g. AWS CDK, CloudFormation).
• Experience with source control systems (Git preferred) in a collaborative, multi-developer environment.
• Awareness of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2 AA) and secure coding practices.
• Familiarity with data privacy principles and legislation relevant to health and social care contexts.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Analytical thinker and problem solver.
• Team player with a collaborative mindset.

The successful candidate will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work for one of Australia's leading social purpose organisations
• Work on a mission-driven project with real social impact.
• Be part of an innovative team embracing AI and automation.
• Excellent tax benefits and rostered days off
• Fitness passport (a discounted health and fitness pass for multiple gyms nationally)

How to Apply

Include your resume and cover letter in one document, click 'Apply' and follow the prompts. For any enquiries relating to the position, Debra Neil contact

Candidates with disabilities who require adjustments to the recruitment process or the application form in an alternate format can visit for information on our access and inclusion work and how to contact us directly.

Applications close Sunday 12th October 2025

Advertised: 29 Sep 2025 AUS Eastern Standard Time

Applications close: 12 Oct :55 AUS Eastern Daylight Time