Senior Software Developer
Posting Start Date: 11 Jul 2025
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, AU, 3000
Company: Serco Plc
Serco is a place where you can grow
Join a team of 12,000+ professionals across Asia Pacific (APAC) and experience a place of challenge, opportunity, and reward.
We offer lots of headroom for you to grow and flexible benefits to suit you in every stage of your life and career, including:
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Flexible and hybrid work options available
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Meaningful work supporting citizen services
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Learning and development tailored to your goals
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Supportive team culture that values diversity
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Access to wellbeing and mental health support
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Long-term government-backed contracts
Make an impact at Serco
We’re looking for a Senior Software Developer to help us deliver high-quality, secure, and scalable software solutions that support citizen services. Based in Melbourne, you’ll work closely with internal teams and external partners, including Government stakeholders, to develop applications that make a real difference. You’ll also play a key role in mentoring and uplifting team practices by championing collaboration, UI/UX design, and secure coding.
As a Senior Software Developer in the Technology team, you’ll make a positive impact by:
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Designing and developing modern software using .NET Core/.NET 6+, React/Angular, and SQL
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Collaborating with analysts and stakeholders to transform user needs into reliable tech solutions
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Supporting a DevOps culture through CI/CD and microservices experience
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Leading peer code reviews and promoting secure development and ISO27001 standards
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Improving system usability through user-centred design and accessibility best practices
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Supporting legacy system upgrades to deliver better user experiences
Serco is a place for you
To be successful in this role you’ll have:
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Over 8 years of software development experience across full-stack technologies
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Advanced skills in C#, .NET, React or Angular, SQL Server, and Git
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Strong understanding of secure coding, accessibility, and performance optimisation
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Experience collaborating with diverse teams using Agile or Waterfall methodologies
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A degree in Computer Science or similar, plus relevant certifications (e.g., Microsoft)
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A passion for designing intuitive and efficient user experiences
In joining us, you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with trusted leaders that will help you achieve your goals. Here, you will appreciate a flexible approach to work-life that comes with working at a company with long-term government-backed contracts.
Are you ready to do important work that really matters?
At Serco, we bring together the right people, the right technology, and the right partners to create impactful solutions that address some of the world’s most urgent and complex challenges.
We focus on serving governments all over the globe. The work we do has touched the lives of millions in Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong, and offers unique opportunities to leverage your skills across our core capabilities in Health, Defence, Maritime, Justice, Immigration, and Community Services.
We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGTBQI+, veterans and people with disability.
By joining Serco you’ll have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.
Impact a better future at Serco.