Full Stack Developer

Description:

Who are we?

With more than 25 years’ experience using demographic, economic and social research data to tell stories of places and communities .id is Australia’s leading provider of tools, consulting services and support to the local government sector and wider industries. We are passionate about what we do and who we do it with.

The Demographics Team supports local government decisions about community services, facilities and infrastructure. Our flagship product is a web app that provides detailed ‘stories of place’ for our local government clients, based primarily on ABS Census data. We are a small, cross-functional team with great domain knowledge looking to expand our engineering skill set. With the rest of .id we embrace Agile principles and methodologies.

About the role

We’re looking for an experienced full-stack engineer, comfortable moving between Database, Backend, Frontend, and DevOps. This role will be challenging, rewarding, and varied. You will work collaboratively to:

• create technical solutions to maintain, evolve and expand our product offering
• help bring our older codebase and database structure forward in a sustainable and meaningful way
• be a champion for best-practice in development, testing and system architecture.

We currently work in a Microsoft development environment.

Skills and experience we’re looking for

While we are seeking a senior developer, we would be happy to consider those with less experience but the right skills and motivations.

Key

• .NET Framework, C#, MVC pattern (or experience with equivalent object-oriented language and the desire to learn)
• Experience with an Agile delivery team
• Experience with data-driven applications
• A passion for ensuring important decisions about our communities are based on sound data
• Experience with cloud-based DevOps environment
• Experience utilising microservices
• Strong SQL database skills
• Experience with unit testing

Desirable

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in software development
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure and Service Fabric
• Front-end experience such as React, Bootstrap, TypeScript, Sass, CSS etc
• Understanding of security best-practice for database and applications
• Experience with test-driven development
• Experience with ingesting large sets of third party data for delivery via our web app
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery methods and tools