What you'll do

- Build features across the API, the web portals and the mobile app
- Review and merge pull requests, and run releases through to production
- Look after our AWS setting, including deploy pipelines, monitoring and security settings
- Share production support with the Lead Engineer
- Help with our security and compliance work, including SOC 2 and ISO 27001
- Document how things run so anyone on the team can pick them up
- What you'll work with
- Modern PHP on the backend, with MySQL and PostgreSQL databases
- TypeScript and React on the web
- React Native and Expo on mobile
- AWS, with containerised services and automated CI/CD from GitHub
- Testing across the backend, the frontend and full end-to-end flows

What you bring

- Senior experience shipping production web apps on both the backend and the frontend
- Solid PHP, ideally Laravel
- Strong TypeScript and React
- Production experience with React Native and Expo
- Solid SQL, with MySQL or PostgreSQL experience and a track record of changing live schemas safely
- Hands-on AWS, including running containerised apps in production and fixing deploys that go wrong
- A strong understanding of networking. You're comfortable with LAN and WAN, IP addressing and subnets, routing, firewalls, VPNs and DNS. You can work out why a remote site can't reach a cloud service.
- Confidence owning a GitHub repo, including branching, code review, merge conflicts and hotfixes
- Daily use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code, and the judgement to review AI-written code properly




- Good security habits around authentication, permissions and sensitive personal data

Good to have:

- Python scripting, an interest in computer vision (NVIDIA DeepStream), government or police clients, SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audits, single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID, and video or camera systems.
- Australian citizen (we work with government and police clients)
- Based in Melbourne, Sydney or Canberra, or happy to travel for key meetings
- Available 4 days a week

Contract & Pay

- $600-700 a day, 4 days a week
- Initial 3-month contract with full-time potential
- Bonuses may apply
- Equity may be offered to the right applicant
- Reporting to the Lead Engineer
- ABN required - this is a contractor position

Your first 90 days

- Weeks 1-2: your local setup is running, your first pull requests are merged, and you work through a release alongside the Lead Engineer
- Weeks 3-6: you run a release with the Lead Engineer reviewing, and you own a feature end-to-end
- Weeks 7-12: you're running merges, deploys and production support on your own

How will we know you're right

Have a quick answer to these:

- "How do you keep a release branch and a development branch in sync when fixes land on both?"
- "A deploy fails its health checks halfway through the rollout. What do you check first?"
- "A very large AI-written pull request lands on Friday afternoon. How do you review it?"
- "How do you change a busy database table without any downtime?"

📌 Senior Full Stack Developer (Melbourne)
🏢 Safer Places Network
📍 Melbourne