Senior Frontend Developer

Job Description:
CreditorWatch is a leading Australian data and technology company that provides businesses with access to unique data and innovative products. We are looking for a skilled frontend engineer to help shape the direction of our frontend architecture, tooling, and practices across multiple squads.

We aim to be number one in our industry by delivering unique data insights and innovative products. Our team is passionate about empowering Australian businesses to trade confidently with their customers.

The successful candidate will have deep expertise in Angular and React, and a strong understanding of frontend security principles. They will be responsible for writing, reviewing, and maintaining high-quality, scalable, and secure frontend code. They will also drive cross-cutting frontend initiatives, set coding standards, lead strategic discussions, and champion frontend quality across the board.

The ideal candidate will have experience working on large-scale frontend applications and know how to balance pragmatism with scalability. They will be a strong communicator and influencer who can align implementation with design vision and bridge gaps between design and development.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing company and work on cutting-edge projects. If you are passionate about building robust, user-friendly web applications and want to lead by doing, we encourage you to apply.

Key Responsibilities:
1. Hands-on development: Write, review, and maintain high-quality, scalable, and secure frontend code primarily in Angular and React.
2. Frontend strategy & standards: Define and advocate for coding best practices, architecture guidelines, testing strategies, and maintainability principles across teams.
3. Technical leadership: Be a thought leader across squads, influencing design and implementation decisions, particularly in frontend-heavy initiatives.
4. Frontend guild facilitation: Organize and lead the frontend guild, creating space for engineers to collaborate on shared challenges, demos, and learning.
5. Design collaboration: Work closely with the Head of Design to align implementation with design vision, bridge gaps between design and development, and plan cross-team frontend efforts.
6. Storybook & UI consistency: Maintain and evolve our component libraries using tools like Storybook, ensuring reusability, accessibility, and design fidelity.
7. Security champion: Advocate security and privacy best practices across frontend applications, from secure handling of sensitive data to safe usage of third-party dependencies.
8. Tech mentorship: Guide engineers through informal mentoring, code reviews, and pairing in writing secure, maintainable, and well-tested frontend codebase. Elevate engineering thinking through high-quality feedback and modeling best practices.
9. Department-wide engagement: Present technical decisions, demos, or initiatives to the broader engineering department and advocate for frontend improvements company-wide.
10. Proactive improvement: Identify and drive improvements to tooling, architecture, and developer experience before being asked.
11. Polyglot mindset: Comfortably pick up and evaluate new tools, libraries, or frameworks where appropriate. Understand when and why a new technology is (or isn't) a good fit.
12. Strong communication skills: Clearly communicate complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
13. Collaboration: Work collaboratively with designers, product managers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality software solutions.
14. Problem-solving: Possess excellent problem-solving skills and be able to tackle complex technical problems independently.
15. Adaptability: Be flexible and adaptable in a fast-paced environment and willing to learn new technologies as needed.

Requirements:
- Deep expertise in Angular and React
- Strong understanding of frontend security principles
- Experience working on large-scale frontend applications
- Strong communication and influencing skills
- Ability to lead by example through clean, simple, and extensible code
- Familiarity with Storybook and similar tools for maintaining component libraries and driving UI consistency
- Experience with observability and instrumentation in frontend systems
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to tackle complex technical problems independently

Benefits:
- Competitive salary and bonus structure
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects and contribute to the growth of a fast-growing company
- Collaborative and dynamic work environment
- Professional development opportunities and training programs
- Flexible working arrangements and hybrid working conditions
- Access to the latest technologies and tools
- Recognition and rewards for outstanding performance and contributions

About Us:
We are a leading Australian data and technology company that provides businesses with access to unique data and innovative products. We are committed to excellence through diversity and equal opportunity employer. We believe in empowering Australian businesses to trade confidently with their customers and strive to be number one in our industry by delivering unique data insights and innovative products.

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