Hiring for API/AWS Software Engineers

Your new company

You will join a Federal Government agency that is rebuilding its public website as a modern digital experience platform. In this team, you will work alongside experienced developers, an Agile Delivery Lead, UX researchers, and content and collection specialists. Together, you will help deliver the APIs, integrations and cloud services that connect the recent website with the agency's collection and business systems.

Your new role

As a Senior Full Stack Developer, you will design, build and operate APIs, serverless functions, identity, search and AI services using Amazon Web Services. You will support the server-side and data-fetching components of the Astro website while contributing to secure, reliable integrations across multiple business systems.

In this team, you will:

- Design and operate APIs using Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda and other serverless services.
- Implement authentication and authorisation using Amazon Cognito, OIDC and OAuth 2.0.
- Develop site and collection search capabilities using Amazon OpenSearch Service.
- Build AI services using Amazon Bedrock, including guardrails, knowledge bases and retrieval-augmented generation.
- Develop and manage AWS infrastructure as code using AWS CDK, CloudFormation or Terraform.
- Build integrations between the website and collection, ticketing and retail systems using REST APIs.




- Develop server-side components of the Astro website using TypeScript.
- Work with Contentstack APIs, webhooks, TypeScript SDKs, Live Preview and Visual Builder.
- Support CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions across development, test, staging and production environments.

What you'll need to succeed

- Australian Citizen
- In-depth experience designing, building and operating APIs and identity services using Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda and Amazon Cognito.
- Experience deploying AWS services as infrastructure as code, with knowledge of least-privilege IAM and Amazon CloudWatch monitoring.
- Hands-on production experience with Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Bedrock.
- Senior full stack development experience using TypeScript and Node.js, including server-side rendering and API development with REST and GraphQL.
- Experience with Astro or a comparable framework such as Next.js.

What you'll get in return Work with the Federal Government || Remote Working || Long Term Contract

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV on '[email protected]', or call us now.

If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

📌 API/AWS Software Engineer (Canberra)
🏢 Hays Technology
📍 Canberra