Senior Full Stack Developer (Contract)

About the role

A national public safety and crime intelligence platform used by retailers, shopping precincts, councils and police is expanding its engineering team. You will report to the Lead Engineer and work across the whole platform, from the database to the mobile app. This is a contractor position based in Melbourne, Sydney or Canberra, available 4 days a week.

Key responsibilities

• Build features across the API, web portals and mobile app
• Review and merge pull requests, and run releases through to production
• Look after the AWS environment, including deploy pipelines, monitoring and security settings
• Share production support with the Lead Engineer
• Help with security and compliance work, including SOC 2 and ISO 27001
• Document how things run so anyone on the team can pick them up

Required profile

• Senior experience shipping production web apps on both backend and frontend
• Strong PHP, ideally Laravel; strong TypeScript and React
• Production experience with React Native and Expo
• Solid SQL with MySQL or PostgreSQL, with a track record of changing live schemas safely
• Hands-on AWS, including running containerised apps in production and fixing broken deploys
• Strong understanding of networking (LAN/WAN, IP addressing, subnets, routing, firewalls, VPNs, DNS)
• Confidence owning a GitHub repo, including branching, code review, merge conflicts and hotfixes
• Daily use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code, with judgement to review AI-written code
• Good security habits around authentication, permissions and sensitive personal data
• Australian citizen (the company works with government and police clients); ABN required

Required skills

• PHP, Laravel
• TypeScript, React
• React Native, Expo
• MySQL, PostgreSQL
• AWS, containerised services, CI/CD from GitHub

What we offer

• $600-700 per day, 4 days a week
• Initial 3-month contract with full-time potential
• Bonuses may apply; equity may be offered to the right applicant

Nice to have: Python scripting, 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.