Mobile Application Developer

Advance Delivery Consulting; The Council of the Shire of Hornsby; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Advance Delivery Consulting is seeking a skilled software professional with 6–8 years of software development, including mobile app work in React Native. The role emphasizes delivering robust, scalable software and leading small teams across collaborative projects.

You will contribute to architecture, coding, testing, and deployment, while mentoring other analysts and developers to uphold high standards of service delivery.

Qualifications

• 6–8 years of software/website development experience.
• 2+ years of React Native mobile app development.
• Experience with CI/CD and web services/rest architectures.
• Strong object-oriented programming, SOLID principles and design patterns.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.

Responsibilities

• Analyze system requirements and estimate development tasks.
• Determine development approach options and recommend the most effective option.
• Engage with business users, analysts and architects to understand needs.
• Design and code quality programs aligned with requirements and architecture.
• Conduct unit testing and support during system testing and deployment.
• Mentor analysts and developers to improve skills and delivery.

Skills

Mobile app development

React Native

JavaScript

CI/CD

Web services

REST architectures

OO programming

SOLID design

Agile

Communication

Team leadership

Effort estimation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

SVN

GIT

Stash

TFS

Grunt

Job description

• Conducts analysis to determine system requirements and system impacts for new or enhanced applications in order to plan and provide estimates for development tasks
• Determines development approach options and recommends the most effective approach
• Engages with business users, business/technical analysts, solution architects and others to understand needs and requirements for project and maintenance development tasks
• Designs and codes quality programs of all levels of complexity in alignment with business requirements and solution architecture for project and maintenance activities
• Conducts unit testing, support during system testing and implementation activities for difficult and complex programs
• Provides emergency technical support and resolution of production problems and other maintenance activities to ensure that applications are performing well and as designed to ensure high system availability, strong data integrity and accurate/timely reporting
• Provides input to the programming practices and standard to ensure these are up-to-date and of a high quality standard
• Challenges existing processes and practices to continuously drive efficiencies and technology delivery performance
• Mentors and develops analyst programmers to support achievement of key performance indicators, ensuring further development of technical knowledge and service delivery standards

Key Accountabilities

• Conducts analysis to determine system requirements and system impacts for new or enhanced applications in order to plan and provide estimates for development tasks
• Determines development approach options and recommends the most effective approach
• Engages with business users, business/technical analysts, solution architects and others to understand needs and requirements for project and maintenance development tasks
• Designs and codes quality programs of all levels of complexity in alignment with business requirements and solution architecture for project and maintenance activities
• Conducts unit testing, support during system testing and implementation activities for difficult and complex programs
• Provides emergency technical support and resolution of production problems and other maintenance activities to ensure that applications are performing well and as designed to ensure high system availability, strong data integrity and accurate/timely reporting
• Provides input to the programming practices and standard to ensure these are up-to-date and of a high quality standard
• Challenges existing processes and practices to continuously drive efficiencies and technology delivery performance
• Mentors and develops analyst programmers to support achievement of key performance indicators, ensuring further development of technical knowledge and service delivery standards

Knowledge, Skills And Experience

• 6 – 8 years of overall experience in software / website development including at least ~5 years of experience in mobile app development including:
• React Native based mobile app development for at least 2 years
• Preference for having Native mobile app development experience in both iOS and Android
• JavaScript, jQuery, CSS
• Experience in management though CI/CD
• Working with web services/REST, web architectures including SEO, mobile web considerations and responsive web design
• Source control management tool, such as SVN, GIT, Stash, TFS and Grunt
• Significant knowledge of object-oriented programming, applying SOLID principals and design patterns
• Excellent knowledge of system development lifecycle methodologies including agile
• Proven track record in integration and development of distributed software applications including cloud-based applications
• Highly skilled in analysis, problem solving, troubleshooting, debugging and performance tuning
• Excellent understanding of relational databases
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Solving technical problems related to content management such as search result accuracy, dynamic content linking, formatting, image scaling and personalization.
• Ability to lead small team of developers for the project or BAU work
• Ability to do development estimate for a project requirement
• Good communication skills so that can work with cross functional team.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field gained through 8 or more years of experience in a similar development environment