Lead Developer

Join us and experience Bunnings from the other side of the counter!

What's in it for you when you're part of our team:

• Team discount at Bunnings and other Wesfarmers brands including Kmart, Target and Officeworks to name a few

• Free standard OnePass membership

• Access to over 100+ exclusive team member benefits across health, shopping, travel and stay, wealth, work and leave

• 12 weeks paid parental leave, regardless of gender

• Fun stuff like annual festive gifts, discounted food and drinks at our Bunnings Cafe, and travelling store team member opportunities

• We're genuinely invested in your career and no matter where you start with us, that pathway is yours to build

About the role

As a Lead Developer you will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining our mobile frontend, backend for mobile frontend and services across our trade domain in a cross functional team environment.

You will be a key conduit between Delivery Leads, Tech Lead, Product Managers and your Development Team to lead the problem solving and implementation of a solution. You will be a champion agile software development practices such as test-driven development, continuous delivery and pair programming.

What's involved:

• Design, code, test and deploy the build and management of the mobile applications
• Support the implementation of the platform's technology strategy
• Contribute to a maintainable, high quality, and performant codebase
• Implement new features in a highly collaborative environment with product managers and engineers
• Working in an agile team, where iterative experimentation and data driven decisions with product and UX is valued
• Effectively communicate your technical solutions and product ideas with the team
• Mentor other engineering team members

Who we're looking for

You will be a detail oriented, outcome driven problem solver who is well versed with working within agile environments. As a passionate technologist you are all about knowledge sharing and upskilling and possess excellent collaboration and communication skills. 

You'll need:

• Significant demonstrated experience (ideally a minimum of 5 years) within software development including developing mobile applications (React Native) and backend APIs
• Strong foundations in Mobile Development including publishing apps to stores
• Typed language expert with strong foundation in TDD
• Experience designing and developing RESTful API
• Experience with GraphQL is preferred
• Solid experience in Typescript and JavaScript including builds tools
• DevOps experience with knowledge on how to setup, configure, and maintain a CI/CD pipeline
• Excellent knowledge of software engineering best practices (e.g. agile software development, continuous deployment, behaviour driven development, code review, design documentation, infrastructure as code, etc.)
• Experience with Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with .NET core-based services would be advantageous
• Experience with Oauth and OpenId would be advantageous

You'll be part of a workplace where you'll feel like you belong.

Bunnings strives to ensure everyone is treated fairly and our team are committed to supporting you at any stage of your recruitment journey. Be sure to let us know if you require an adjustment and we can provide the most appropriate support for you. Contact us at [email protected] and a member of the team will be in touch. 

About Us

Bunnings is the leading retailer of home improvement and lifestyle products in Australia and New Zealand. We're a major supplier to project builders, commercial tradespeople and the housing industry operating from a network of stores, trade centres, frame and truss sites and online.

By joining our passionate and diverse team, you'll have the opportunity to grow, develop, have fun and make a positive difference – to our customers and the communities where we live and work. If you're ready to roll up your sleeves and build something great together, apply today.

Please note if you are offered a role with us, background checks may be required. This can include police, employment and qualification checks. If a police check search returns a criminal record, Bunnings will assess whether the record impacts your ability to perform the key requirements of the role.