Onsite
Full-time, 2-year fixed-term opportunity
Join a purpose-driven team at the InsideOut Institute for Eating Disorders and use your development expertise to create impactful digital solutions that support world-leading mental health research, education and care
Base Salary $126,065 + 17% superannuation
About the opportunity
Join the InsideOut Institute for Eating Disorders at the University of Sydney and play a key role in delivering innovative digital solutions that support world-leading research, education and clinical impact in the mental health sector. As a Developer, you will contribute to the design, development and continuous improvement of digital platforms that enhance the Institute’s reach, capability and service delivery.
Working under broad direction, you will provide specialist technical expertise across the full software development lifecycle, from architecture and feature development through to deployment and optimisation. You will help shape technical decisions, champion code quality and collaborate with clinicians, researchers and stakeholders to build scalable, secure and user-centred solutions.This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced developer who enjoys solving complex problems, working with purpose-driven teams and contributing to meaningful digital transformation in a high-impact environment.
Your key responsibilities will be to:
Lead the development of software applications and critical system components, ensuring solutions meet project objectives and user needs.
Collaborate on digital solutions by working closely with clinicians, researchers, product managers and stakeholders to translate requirements into impactful digital solutions that support strategic goals.
Maintain code quality and best practices by writing clean, scalable, and efficient code, implementing testing methodologies, rectifying bugs and errors, and ensuring comprehensive technical documentation for software projects.
Contribute to the digital transformation roadmap by implementing new technologies and refining existing systems to improve performance, security, and user satisfaction.
What Does a Typical Day Look Like?
Each day at InsideOut brings a mix of coding, collaboration, and problem-solving. You might:
Work closely with clinicians and researchers to refine features or develop new tools that support mental health treatment and research.
Spend time coding and debugging, ensuring the applications are efficient, scalable, and secure.
Participate in the digital team development culture through testing, execution, and troubleshooting of software deployment.
Our Tech Stack
Every project is different, but we usually reach for modern full-stack TypeScript tooling, a PostgreSQL database, and a GraphQL API layer. Our front end is built in React with a component library and headless CMS. You don't need to have worked with our exact tools — if you're comfortable in similar environments, you'll find your feet quickly.
Our Team
The digital team is a small team within the Institute of 3 developers, an ICT support officer, a clinical advisor, and a team lead. Every developer works on their own projects, where they get the freedom and responsibility to make their own choices about features and implementation, with the common goal of quality, safety and reliability. This is supported by a team culture of knowledge sharing and constant improvement.
The wider InsideOut Institute works in teams around our strategic priorities of Research, Digital Health, Clinical Innovation, Education and Public Policy & Service Development.
About you
At InsideOut, we’re committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment, and we particularly encourage applications from women and underrepresented groups in tech. We value experience and passion; if you’re excited about the work we do, we want to hear from you—even if you’re not completely confident in every aspect of the role. If you have a passion for building things that last, the creativity to come up with elegant solutions to new problems and want to make a difference to people’s wellbeing, this is the perfect space to develop your ideas and grow with us.
We're looking for someone with:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or a relevant field with an equivalent combination of relevant training and experience.
Demonstrated experience communicating effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, building strong relationships and influencing outcomes across diverse teams.
Proven analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with strong attention to detail and the ability to make sound decisions in complex environments.
Extensive experience in front-end and back-end development of web-based applications using a broad range of modern technologies, programming languages and scripting tools.
Thoughtful judgement about the use of AI tools. Knowing when they help and when they don't.
Strong project delivery experience, including successfully delivering digital solutions within Agile/Scrum environments and managing competing priorities.
About Your Application:
Shortlisted candidates will be asked to attend a short Zoom interview where we will talk about your experience and interest in the position.
Following this, we will invite a final shortlist to an in-person interview where we will get more into your development skills and experience, including paper coding tasks and talking through technical scenarios.
We don’t just want to see how you perform under time pressure. If you have a Github, a personal site, or other work, we'd love for you to share it with your application.
If you require any adjustments to the application or interview process, please let us know, and we will make sure you are supported.
Sponsorship / work rights for Australia
You must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this employment to be eligible to apply. Visa sponsorship is not available for this appointment.
Pre-employment checks and declarations
Your employment is conditional upon the successful completion of all pre-employment or background checks required for the role in terms satisfactory to the University. Also, to meet the University’s obligations under the National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Eliminate Gender-Based Violence you will be asked to declare if you have been investigated for, or found to engaged in, sexual harm or gender-based violence in the course of previous employment or in a legal process. Similarly, your ongoing employment is conditional upon the satisfactory maintenance of all relevant clearances and background check requirements. If you do not meet these conditions, the University may take any necessary step, including the termination of your employment.
This position is designated as involving child-related work. To undertake or remain in this position, you are required to apply for and obtain a Working with Children Check clearance in accordance with the Child Protection (Working with Children) Act 2012.
EEO statement
At the University of Sydney, our shared values are trust, accountability and excellence and we strive to be a place where everyone can thrive. We are committed to creating a University community that thrives through diversity and reflects the wider community that we serve. We deliver on this through our commitment to diversity and inclusion, evidenced by our people and culture programs, as well as key strategies to increase participation and support the careers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people living with a disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and those who identify as LGBTQIA+. We welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds.
We are proud to be recognised as an Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) Platinum Employer. Find out more about our work on diversity and inclusion.
How to apply
Applications (including a cover letter, CV, and any additional supporting documentation) can be submitted via the Apply button at the top of the page.
For employees of the University or contingent workers, please login into your Workday account and navigate to the Career icon on your Dashboard. Click on USYD Find Jobs and apply.
Tell us about a project you loved working on. It could be a personal project, a work project, whatever.
A few things we'd love to hear about:
What it did, and what tools you used
Why you cared about it (because it was difficult? because it was new? because it aligned with your personal interests? because it had impact? etc)
A specific moment or detail you remember — a bug that took forever, a decision you got wrong, the first time it worked
If you have a link (repo, demo, screenshot, blog post), please drop it in your application.
For a confidential discussion about the role, or if you require reasonable adjustment or any documents in alternate formats, please contact Roshik Prasad, Recruitment Operations by email to roshik.prasad@sydney.edu.au
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