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Senior Developer, Digital Solutions

RMIT UniversityMelbourne, Victoria🇦🇺AustraliaPosted 24 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid role offers a fantastic opportunity to lead the development of innovative digital solutions, leveraging your front-end expertise in Svelte/React and Node.js to solve real-world business problems at a reputable university. You'll thrive here if you're a motivated developer with strong analytical and stakeholder engagement skills, eager to contribute to human-centered design and potentially integrate AI capabilities. Apply to grow your skills and impact within a dynamic team environment!

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Full Time
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Senior Developer - Digital Solutions

Dynamic Senior Developer available for a 6 month fixed term with hybrid work from Melbourne CBD campus. Seeking a motivated developer to build solutions that solve business problems.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead end to end analysis, design, development, implementation and support of digital solutions.
  • Focus on front end engineering, user experience and modern web application development.
  • Work closely with stakeholders to understand user, business and service needs and apply human centred design approaches.
  • Contribute to discovery, prototyping and iterative solution design.
  • Deliver high quality development outcomes, showcase solutions to stakeholders, and provide support and coaching to other developers.
  • Integrate AI enabled applications and AI capabilities into digital experiences as welcomed.
Required Skills & Experience
  • Extensive experience in enterprise front end and web application development for digital products, including analysis, design, testing, implementation, documentation and support.
  • Strong understanding of the SDLC and experience debugging complex technical problems.
  • Demonstrated experience applying human centred design in discovery, analysis and solution design.
  • Excellent problem solving, analytical and strategic thinking skills.
  • Advanced communication, collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills.
  • Strong experience with Node.js and substantial experience with Svelte and/or React; proficiency with Python for supporting services.
  • Experience with REST APIs, integration patterns and modern web development practices, including performance, usability, accessibility and responsive design.
  • Familiarity with AI enabled applications and AI services is regarded as a plus.
Background Checks & Disability Accommodation

Preferred candidates will undertake relevant pre employment background checks, including Working With Children Checks. All applicants will complete a gender based violence declaration as required by the National Higher Education Code. Disability and adjustment accommodations are available-please contact for support.

Equal Opportunity & Diversity

RMIT is an equal opportunity employer committed to attracting, retaining and developing people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, or age. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community. RMIT will consider gender based violence risk factors as part of recruitment processes. All applicants are treated with confidentiality and the information is used only for roles and safety obligations.

Benefits

Benefits include travel, fitness, and other employee wellness programmes.

Skills

Node.js
Svelte
Python
REST
React

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