Developers (Freelance/Contract) and Technology Partners

About The Role

We're interested to meet freelancers and development teams, either in Naarm (Melbourne) or Gadigal (Sydney).

We're looking for full-stack developers who may be leads, seniors, or mid-career. We are also interested in backend and dev-ops capabilities.

We're offering contracts to establish strong partnerships with great developers or development teams. Over the years, we've built wonderful relationships with freelancer friends, and we'd like to expand the friendship group. You'll become a 'friend of Today' and be front-of-mind for long-term contracts into the coming years.

We warmly welcome applications from all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, individuals with disabilities, those from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, mature age workers, and members of the LGBTIQA+ community.

Your focus

Frontend developers

• Build pixel perfect UI's and design systems
• Write semantic and accessible markup (ARIA and WCAG AA 2.1)
• Collaborate with interaction designers and backend developers
• Familiarity with using GraphQL, JSON, and REST API
• Modern Javascript, Typescript, VueJS, React, Next.js, Nuxt, Gatsby, SVG, animation
  
  

Full-stack developers

• Build modern web applications and API's
Collaborate with interaction designers, frontend and backend developers Work from architectures and functional specifications
Build integrations with payment gateways and CRMs
Familiar with serverless and decoupled web application builds
Auth (OAuth2.0, SAML, Auth0, Cognito)
• Modern Javascript, NodeJS, Typescript, Nuxt, Next.js, Gatsby, Prisma, state management
• GraphQL, REST API, JSON API
CraftCMS, Wordpress, Drupal, Silverstripe
Nice to have — React Native, Expo, PWA, Docker
  
  

Backend developers

• AWS — ECS, RDS (Postgres), S3, Cloudfront, Lambda, Cognito, API Gateway Docker, npm, Composer
• PHP 7, NodeJS, NGINX
• Pipelines, Cloudformation, Serverless framework, shell scripts
• CraftCMS, WordPress, Drupal, Silverstripe
  
  
  

About Today

We're Today, Australia's most awarded social impact agency. We use design and technology to make change happen at pace and at scale.

We tackle society's biggest challenges and drive positive change, in sectors such as arts and public spaces, youth and families, cities, transport and housing, climate, education, First Nations justice, health and wellbeing, public service, and sustainable economy.

We believe in human-centred design, collaboration across crafts (strategy, research, design, content, delivery), and we have a passionate team of 60+ in Naarm (Melbourne) with a new Gadigal (Sydney) branch taking off.

You'll experience a welcoming environment filled with smart, fun, and caring people from a wide variety of backgrounds and disciplines, who are passionate about creativity, making change, and learning from each other. Learn more about our values and culture at today.design/careers.

You must be legally able to work in Australia

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