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Industrial Hypertext Jobs is a focused jobs board for software and technical roles. If you are a recruiter, agency, employer or hiring manager advertising in Perth, you can add your vacancy without paying a listing fee.
Updated 6 November 2026 · For Perth employers and recruiters
Perth software hiring can include software developers, software engineers, web developers, frontend and backend developers, full-stack developers, DevOps engineers, data specialists, technical consultants and other genuine technology roles.
Use a recognisable title such as “Backend Software Developer” rather than an internal grade or a phrase such as “coding rockstar”. Add the main technology when it genuinely defines the work. For a wider hiring plan, see our guide to hiring software developers in Australia.
Help a developer judge the work and the practical fit before they apply. Prepare these details before opening the listing form:
The listing form has fields for the title, company, location, work mode, description and skills. Put pay, engagement terms and interview details in the description rather than leaving candidates to infer them.
Adapt this outline to a genuine vacancy. Replace every bracketed prompt with confirmed details and remove anything that does not apply. It is a writing template, not an advertised role.
Title: [Level] software developer — [main technology, if essential]
Company and work: At [company], our [team] builds [product or service] for [users]. Your first focus will be [specific, realistic outcome].
Responsibilities: You will [main delivery responsibility], work with [team members] and help maintain [system or service].
Essential experience: We need evidence of [two or three relevant skills or delivery habits]. Experience with [optional tool or domain] is useful but not essential.
Location and hours: Based in [Perth suburb or eligible remote location], with [office attendance], [collaboration hours] and [travel or on-call expectations].
Terms: [Employment or contract arrangement], [pay range and basis, including superannuation treatment], [contract duration if relevant] and [work-rights or sponsorship position].
How to apply: Provide [CV and relevant project evidence]. Our process is [interview stages and any exercise]. [Explain the application route and closing date, if set.]
A useful requirement describes the work: “Can explain and test API failure handling” is clearer than “must know every modern framework”. Do not request confidential source code or customer information as application evidence.
This fictional example shows how to turn the template into a specific description. It is not an open vacancy, a salary benchmark or a claim about an employer. Use only details your hiring manager has confirmed.
The work: Our team builds a booking application for service businesses. You will improve booking validation, investigate reported faults and add tests around changes to the API. Your first project will be a small booking-rule change, supported by an experienced developer.
The team: You will work with two developers and a product owner. Changes go through code review before release. This role involves delivering scoped changes with review, not managing the team or owning the entire platform alone.
Essential evidence: Show us PHP code you can explain, SQL queries you have written and an example of diagnosing a defect. Describe how you check your changes and respond to review feedback. Experience with our particular framework is useful, but we can support learning it.
Working pattern: This example role is based in West Perth, with office attendance on Tuesday and Thursday and home working on the other weekdays. Ordinary collaboration hours are 9 am–5 pm Perth time. No travel or on-call duties are included in this example.
Selection: Apply with a CV and a brief description of a relevant project. Share a public repository only if you are authorised to share it; a written explanation is welcome. The process is an initial conversation followed by a technical discussion of your example and a small debugging scenario.
Before publishing your own version, add the actual company name, employment arrangement, confirmed pay range and superannuation basis, work-rights or sponsorship position, application route and any closing date. These details are deliberately not invented for the example.
For a graduate vacancy, state what can be demonstrated through study or personal projects and who provides supervision. For a senior vacancy, describe the decisions, system ownership and mentoring expected. Do not use the same responsibilities unchanged for both levels.
Read the finished advertisement as someone deciding whether to apply, then ask the hiring manager to resolve any gaps. A clear description helps candidates assess fit; it does not guarantee applications.
Compare the result with a candidate's questions in our Perth developer jobs guide. For planning the selection process after the ad is ready, use our Australian developer hiring guide. Then create a recruiter account and submit the confirmed vacancy for review.
“Flexible” does not tell a candidate whether they can work from home. For a hybrid role, name the office area and expected attendance. For remote work, state which locations are eligible and whether occasional Perth office visits are required.
If the team works with interstate colleagues, specify collaboration hours in Perth local time and clarify whether they change during eastern-state daylight saving. Describe release windows, on-call duties and site travel separately from ordinary working hours.
Check the wording against the questions in our remote developer jobs guide. For local context, review the Perth developer job-search guide or browse Perth software jobs.
There is no paid upgrade required to get started. Add one vacancy first, then return to your dashboard when you have more roles.
Yes. Creating a recruiter account and submitting a job for review has no listing fee. A free submission is not a promise of applications, search rankings or a particular audience size.
No. New listings are reviewed before publication. After approval, the vacancy has a public page you can share. Do not treat submitting the form as confirmation that the job is live.
Recruiters, agencies and direct employers can use a recruiter account. Make it clear who is advertising the vacancy and describe the actual role rather than posting a generic expression of interest.
Include the engagement type, expected duration, working pattern, rate basis where available and any extension conditions in the description. Do not describe a possible extension as guaranteed or use “contract” without explaining the proposed arrangement.
Fill in the template, confirm the practical terms with the hiring manager and read the result from a candidate’s perspective. Then create your recruiter account and submit the role for review.
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