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Lead Developer

XPT Software Australia PtyBrisbane, Queensland🇦🇺AustraliaPosted 18 Sept 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
DockerAWSAgileAngularAzureGitJavaScriptPythonReactTerraform

Job Description

We're looking for a strong, versatile Senior Lead Developer to build and enhance modern applications across the full technology stack. This role needs someone with deep development expertise, modern DevOps practices, and practical cloud exposure, rather than a dedicated cloud engineer.


Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, refactor, and maintain end to end applications (backend, frontend, integrations).
  • Collaborate with Product Owners and Agile leaders on user stories, design, documentation, and testing.
  • Implement high quality, maintainable solutions using agreed engineering standards and design patterns.
  • Write and maintain unit tests; participate in and lead code reviews.
  • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and automation.
  • Work with containerised and cloud hosted applications; resolve technical dependencies across teams.

Mandatory Skills & Experience:

  • Python for application and systems development - strong working experience (7+ years preferred)
  • Docker , Git
  • Terraform
  • Build, packaging, and release processes
  • Practical exposure to AWS or similar cloud platforms
  • CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitLab preferred)
  • Full stack developers preferred. React or Angular (3+ years).
  • Understanding of:
    • Networking fundamentals
    • Cloud hosted architectures
    • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts

Nice to Have

  • Experience with other languages or ecosystems (e.g. JavaScript beyond frontend, NET)
  • Exposure to AI assisted/agentic developer tools (e.g. Cursor, Codex, Claude Code)




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