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 environment, 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 *****
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
Strong 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 robust 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 ***** 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
$******* 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?"
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📌 Senior Full Stack Developer (Melbourne)
🏢 Safer Places Network
📍 Melbourne