Full Stack Developer (AWS Cloud)
Summary
Contract full stack developer on a Queensland Government digital transformation program in Brisbane CBD, building cloud-native applications on AWS. Day-to-day work spans React/TypeScript front-ends, Python serverless backends (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB), AWS CDK infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines.
Full Stack Developer (AWS Cloud)
Full Stack Developer (AWS Cloud) Brisbane CBD
Contract Opportunity
Queensland Government
Are you an experienced Full Stack Developer looking to contribute to a large-scale digital transformation program delivering modern, cloud-native solutions for Queenslanders?
A Queensland Government department is seeking a talented Full Stack Developer to join a high-performing Agile delivery team. You'll play a key role in the design, development and enhancement of scalable applications built on AWS, working across front-end, back-end, integration and cloud infrastructure components.
This is a hands-on role suited to someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges while working with modern engineering practices and contemporary cloud technologies.
What You'll Be Doing
- Designing and developing responsive web applications using React and TypeScript
- Building cloud-native backend services, microservices and APIs within AWS
- Developing RESTful APIs using OpenAPI and contract-first principles
- Delivering event-driven and API-based integration solutions
- Building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK
- Developing scalable data solutions across relational and NoSQL platforms
- Contributing to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and DevSecOps practices
- Participating in architecture discussions, solution design and code reviews
- Producing technical documentation and supporting knowledge transfer activities
About You
You will bring strong commercial experience delivering end-to-end software solutions and have a genuine passion for modern cloud engineering.
Essential Skills
- Strong experience with React, TypeScript and modern JavaScript frameworks
- Experience developing complex role-based user interfaces and business workflows
- Strong AWS development experience, particularly with:
- AWS Lambda
- API Gateway
- EventBridge
- SQS & SNS
- DynamoDB
- S3
- RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL
- IAM, Secrets Manager and CloudWatch
- Experience building RESTful APIs and microservices architectures
- Strong understanding of OAuth2, OIDC and JWT authentication
- Backend development experience using Python
- Infrastructure as Code experience using AWS CDK
- Experience with GitHub Actions or equivalent CI/CD tooling
- Strong testing, troubleshooting and software engineering practices
Highly Regarded
- Experience designing scalable and resilient serverless solutions
- Observability, monitoring and distributed tracing experience
- Experience within large enterprise or government environments
- AWS certifications
Skills
- Agile
- API
- Aurora
- Authentication
- AWS
- CDK
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Cloud Native
- CloudWatch
- DevSecOps
- DynamoDB
- Event Driven Architecture
- Eventbridge
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- IAM
- Infrastructure as Code
- JavaScript
- JWT
- Lambda
- Microservices
- NoSQL
- OAuth
- Observability
- OpenAPI
- OpenID
- PostgreSQL
- Python
- RDS
- React
- REST
- S3
- Serverless
- SNS
- Solution Design
- SQS
- Test Automation
- TypeScript