Senior Backend Developer

4 days ago

Eveleigh, New South Wales, Australia AAR Consulting Group PL Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

Our client is a large, NSW government department that provides extensive education services

This a critical role to work on a complete revamp of their Leadership Learning Resource Redesign solution - a new enterprise solution to meet the needs of school leaders; aiding them to develop their leadership capabilities to lead their schools

Role Description:

The Senior Backend Developer will be a "hands on" technical delivery lead to build and maintain the new Leadership Learning Resource application - will be responsible for the design and implementation of new systems and features, as well as modifying and maintaining existing systems for adaptation to business and/or technology changes

Responsibilities:

  • The key focus is to design, develop, implement and support software components anywhere in the software stack (primarily backend) for the new Leadership Learning Resource application.
  • Serve as a technical lead - contributing to and directing the efforts of development.
  • Participate in proofs of concepts (POC) - innovate and effectively transition and scale those concepts into production at scale
  • Design, develop, modify, implement and support software components anywhere in the software stack.
  • Determine root cause for complex software issues and develop practical, efficient, and permanent technical solutions.
  • Remain current on new technologies and available vendor packages; evaluate and make recommendations, as necessary
  • Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code in
  • Develop RESTful APIs.
  • Integrate with external services and third-party APIs.
  • Advise, collaborate with, and synthesise feedback from designers and frontend developers.
  • Work closely with backend and frontend developers as well as the UX designer, Tech Lead, QA and Project Manager
  • Participate in sprint planning, daily stand-ups and retrospectives (Agile/Scrum practices).
  • Liaise with the Product Architect and developers on software design, dependencies and code maintainability

Skills and Experience:

  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in Backend development
  • Strong knowledge of designing RESTful APIs in
  • Strong knowledge of NoSQL databases (MongDB, Elasticsearch)
  • Ability to set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Azure, AWS)
  • Some exposure to front-end (HTML, CSS and understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks (VueJS 3, Angular, React)
  • Experience working with cloud based environments - serverless and microservices e.g. NodeJS, AWS Lambda, Azure Kubernetes.
  • Passion for usability, efficiency and performant code
  • Experience developing WCAG compliant websites/applications for government clients (Level AA) an advantage (not essential)

Consultant: Colin Massey

Keywords: Backend Developer, NSW government, backend, front end, full stack, RESTful APIs, agile, scrum, technical lead, NoSQL, java, azure, AWS, cloud, CI/CD, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, , educationAt AAR Consulting Group we embrace diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity.We encourage and support applications from people with a disability.Please reach out to discuss any accommodations or adjustments that may be needed during the recruitment process via or

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