We are looking for passionate and motivated people to join our awesome team! With offices in Melbourne, Sydney & Adelaide and the option to work hybrid or remote, we encourage anyone located in Australia to invest some of their time to explore our new opportunities.
About Portable
Our mission is to seek out areas of social need and policy failure and make transformational change using design and technology. We believe that government, organisations and businesses can be forces for good. But there’s a gap in their understanding of, and ability to meet, the expectations of those in need of positive change. Our job is to use design and technology to narrow the gap between those with the power and responsibility to make a positive change, and those who need it.
We are looking for someone who is:
- Extremely familiar with the React framework and is able to efficiently and effectively develop high quality projects
- Comfortable implementing APIs and other backend code in Python, and open to C# (or indeed comfortable in C# and open to Python!)
- Able to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams of designers, developers and producers
- Seeking opportunities to learn, and helps others by providing feedback
- Able to communicate clearly to a broad range of stakeholders, both in person and in writing
For this role, we're looking for a senior web developer who has had significant experience and worked on a number of different applications during their career.
An example of what a week at Portable as a Senior Developer might look like:
- Spending time writing code - implementing new APIs for a transport project and adding new elements to the UI components for a geospatial project
- Pairing and mentoring on a feature with a mid-level or junior developer to provide directed advice and guidance that will help them grow professionally as a developer
- Reviewing a few pull requests to help individuals and the team grow with their ability to commit good code to projects
- Running one of our fortnightly Deep Dive sessions, helping other developers at Portable increase their skill in a technology you're interest in
- Collaborating with producers to plan new features and assist with the execution of the overall project architecture
- Working with the team to do some sprint planning, writing up some tickets in Jira and thinking about how you could break up the tasks to give some learning opportunities to junior developers. And plan to have some of your time to be available to mentor them while they pair.
Remuneration and benefits
The salary range for this role is between $110,000 - $135,000 + 11% supernnauation depending on your level of experience.
Joining Portable means becoming part of an organisation with an award-winning workplace culture, where your contributions are valued and you’re supported by a multidisciplinary team.
Here’s what else you can look forward to:
- Flexible work arrangements: Remote work, hybrid work (up to 4 days per week), flexible hours and flexible start/finish times
- Enhanced leave benefits: Enjoy bonus annual leave based on tenure, options to purchase additional leave, paid volunteering leave, and additional paid parental leave for eligible employees
- Professional Growth: Benefit from an annual professional development budget of $1000, access to our Emerging Leaders program, and a variety of other development opportunities.
- Financial Incentives: Receive a profit-sharing bonus (once eligible) and explore employee share plan options
- Well-being Support: Access up to 4 psychology sessions per year through Portable’s Employee Assistance Program.
We are dedicated to cultivating an inclusive and equitable workplace that celebrates diversity. We strongly encourage individuals from traditionally marginalised or underrepresented groups to join our team and contribute to our collective success.
How to apply
To be considered, please send us your resume and a brief cover letter addressing why you would be a great fit for the role and want to work at Portable. We do read your cover letters so please write one, as they are your best chance to get an interview!
