The Role

ASD is looking for software developers who can work across the full stack to develop ASD’s custom applications. We leverage open source software and best practices, enhanced by our own in-house development to deliver custom applications and capabilities for ASD.

As a Software Developer, your daily activities could include:

• Full stack development of an application, from front-end user interface through to the database, identifying and utilising the latest technologies.
• Leading software design, planning, implementation and deployment decisions for their team.
• Supporting your team’s pipeline automation, cloud native development and dev-ops, in particular taking responsibility for the ongoing support of operational capability.
• Actively engaging with users to be responsive to changing requirements, identifying concerns and developing new features on quick turnarounds meet mission needs.
• Leading teams by upskilling, including peer coding, leading code reviews, implementing relevant agile practices, providing feedback and mentoring.
• Contributing to technical cohort expertise and collaboration with both technical teams across the Group and external to it.

Key Duties

• Full stack development, from front-end user interface through to the database, identifying and utilising the latest technologies.
• Leading software design, planning, implementation and deployment decisions for their team.
• Supporting your team’s pipeline automation, cloud native development and dev-ops, in particular taking responsibility for the ongoing support of operational capability.
• Work collaboratively with stakeholders and actively engaging with users to be responsive to changing requirements, identifying concerns and developing new features on quick turnarounds meet mission needs.
• Leading teams by upskilling, including peer coding, leading code reviews, implementing relevant agile practices, providing feedback and mentoring.
• Contributing to ASD’s Technical cohort expertise and collaboration with both technical teams in the agency and external to it.
• Accountable for designing, coding, testing, correcting, reviewing, documenting and releasing large complex programs and program modifications according to supplied specifications, standards and tools.
• Analyse very complex software development issues, applying expertise to identify and implement courses of action, including undertaking complex projects requiring development, integration, implementation and deployment.
• Provide expertise in a domain technologies and environment.
• Assess and evaluate software development strategy, initiatives, projects, policy and procedures.

About our Team

Are you interested in developing unique capabilities for Australia’s foreign signals intelligence and cyber security agency? ASD has a wide variety of Software Developer positions available across multiple divisions within the agency. As a software developer you will work in multi-disciplinary teams responsible for the design and development of capabilities that meet ASD’s mission needs.

Within ASD, our teams are comprised of highly skilled individuals with a diverse range of backgrounds and experience. We offer opportunities to work across a broad spectrum of roles within the software development cycle. The work we do is unique, critical and incredibly rewarding.

We are seeking people who want to be at the forefront of innovation and work alongside experts in a wide variety of fields, to protect Australia and it national interests.

Our Ideal Candidate

ASD are looking for people who are able to work within a technical environment and have a passion for building and supporting important ASD capability. Ideal candidates will be innovative, proactive and use their skills to solve technically complex problems. We are seeking people who have:

• Strong technical skills, with the ability to deliver on their work and contribute towards team deliverables.
• Ability to lead an agile software development team and build good working relationships with the technical cohort in ASD.
• A focus on meeting best practices for code quality, performance and security.
• Experience in software development with proven delivery.
• Good collaboration and user engagement skills.
• Ability to understand full stack development environments and have informed discussions with other technical staff.
• Operate independently with minimal direction and have the ability to lead a small technical team to achieve outcomes, drawing on your subject matter expertise.
• Ability to code, test, review and document complex work and applications.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to team members on software development.
• Allocate work, set priorities and develop strategies for a small development team.

Application Closing Date: Sunday 11 May 2025.

For further information please review the job information pack, reference ASD/03633/25 on https://www.asd.gov.au/careers.