Are you a full stack developer that is passionate about driving experiences and insights? Join City of Melbourne in this newly created role

$106,988 plus 9.5% Superannuation

Maximum Term Contract up until June 2022

We are the City of Melbourne, a place to be bold and inspirational.

We are rapidly transforming to meet the evolving challenges faced by a global city. With a vision of being a leading organisation for a leading capital city, our mission is to create positive impact for our community. Each day, we work with passion and purpose so that together we achieve incredible things.

Together we Make the Difference

How this position will Make the Difference to City of Melbourne…

As the Senior Spatial Front End Developer, you will play a key role in designing and developing City Insights products to ensure that products are experiential and are aligned with human centred design principles.

You will ensure that the user experience is consistent but tailored as needed across product sets whilst still remaining compliant and consistent with City of Melbourne brand guidelines. This enables users to optimise their interactions with products in a way that maximises engagement and use of the products.

As a full stack developer that specialises in developing products that drive experiences and insights, you will design and develop creative assets to support new functionality, enhancement and optimisation across City of Melbourne’s digital channels.

Building and maintaining consistent and productive strategic partnerships, collaborations and/or sponsorships with stakeholders to identify opportunities and achieve a high quality user experience will be critical to your success.

You can bring… (Selection criteria)

•       Ability to demonstrate and display City of Melbourne Values – accountability, integrity, courage, respect for self and others, and striving for excellence.

•           A relevant tertiary qualification in ICT, or a related field and knowledge and experience of User Experience processes, research methodologies, and principles.

•           Demonstrated experience planning and undertaking user research and usability testing activities, and then effectively communicating insights through visual artefacts and storytelling.

•       Expert understanding and knowledge of modern ReactJS, AWS Amplify JS SDK, console, websockets, webpack, mapbox, react-map-gl package, monorepo, deck.gl and grit workflow.

•           Demonstrated experience collaborating with subject matter experts to review and write content in plain language, and ensure structure of content reflects how users read online and on different devices.

•           Experience and capability for designing user interfaces with responsive design methods using consistent design patterns, and which meet web standards, including accessibility.

•           Demonstrated experience designing information architecture, and developing wireframes, user flows and pathways, high-fidelity mock-ups, and prototypes to test and validate services against user needs and business objectives.

•           Sound written and oral communication skills including the capacity to liaise effectively with internal and external stakeholders, and the ability to build and manage relationships that facilitate the delivery of services.

By joining us, you will become part of a remarkable team who work in a constructive and inclusive culture to shape the future of this city. Together, we champion difference, celebrate achievement and recognise positive impact.

To view the physical requirements of this position, please see below under Position Information.

How to apply…

Please apply via the City of Melbourne Careers Page, link below. 

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Please address your covering letter to David Hassett, Team Leader GIS.

Applications will be accepted up until 11:45pm Tuesday 27 April 2021.

The position description for this role will not be provided at this stage of application.

For those interested in working with us, the City of Melbourne offers a great range of benefits.

City of Melbourne conducts a safety screening process for all employees including a national criminal check and Working with Children Check prior to commencing in the role. For information about the broader collection and use of personal information by the City of Melbourne, please refer to our Privacy Policy

City of Melbourne is proud to be a workplace that champions diversity. Our commitment is for our people to be safe, included and supported so that they can be at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage applications from people regardless of their gender identity and expression, ethnicity, cultural background, sexual orientation, disability and age. We look for the right values, skills and knowledge to build our capabilities so that we can best deliver for our community.