Senior Frontend Engineer

Who are we?     

Humanforce’s vision is to make work easier and life better for frontline and flexible workforces.  

Humanforce provides the market leading, best-in-one human capital management (HCM) suite for frontline and flexible workforces - without compromise. Our employee-centred, intelligent, and compliant HCM suite is highly integrated and composable, and consists of Workforce Management (WFM), HR, Payroll, and Employee Wellbeing.    

Humanforce has built strong foundations since its founding in 2002. We help over 2300 companies and almost 1 million employees in 30+ countries, across a wide range of industries, including aged, child, and health care; education; hospitality; retail; local government and more. Today, we have offices across Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, North America, and the Philippines.   

Customers choose Humanforce because we enable them to deliver an exceptional employee experience, build a compelling employee value proposition, and connect the flow of the world’s talent with the growth, productivity and efficiency objectives of frontline and flexible workforces.   

Who you are    

We are seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to help shape and expand our internally developed Design System, ensuring consistency and scalability across our entire multi-product SaaS platform. 

Our product suite is built using a range of technologies such as React and Angular; and to support a unified design language across all products, we have adopted a Web Components-based approach. This role requires expertise in CSS, TypeScript, and a strong understanding of framework-agnostic UI component development. 

In this role, you will work closely with designers, engineers, and product teams to develop, maintain, and evolve our Design System; creating robust, accessible, and high-performance UI components that seamlessly integrate across multiple technologies. 

What you will do    

• Develop and maintain our Design System and create UI components to enhance user experience across the platform. 

• Write clean, efficient, and scalable code using modern front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and frameworks like React or Angular. 

• Optimise applications for performance, responsiveness, and accessibility. 

• Ensure scalability and maintainability by implementing best practices, including modular architecture and well-documented code. 

• Champion accessibility best practices (a11y) by ensuring UI components are compliant with WCAG standards 

• Stay up to date with the latest industry trends and bring innovative ideas to improve the front-end experience. 

What you’ll need  

• Proven experience as a Frontend Engineer with expertise in modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, Vue.js, or similar).  

• Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript. 

• Experience in building scalable, reusable components and working within design systems. 

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot performance and usability issues. 

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work in a cross-functional team environment. 

• Passion for frontend development trends, best practices, and new technologies.  

Some ‘nice to haves’   

• Experience in a SaaS or enterprise software environment. 

• Familiarity with state management libraries. 

• Experience in working with Web components. 

• Knowledge of UX/UI principles and experience working with design tools like Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD.  

• Exposure to micro-frontend architectures or component-based design. 

• A degree in Computer Science, UX Design, or a related field (not required but advantageous). 

Our values    

• We are bold    

• We are all in    

• We are customer obsessed    

• We do what we say    

• We are good humans    

Our approach to flexibility    

We are passionate about people making their own decisions about where and when they work. Our aim is to facilitate hybrid working (mix of in the office and from home) where possible to support our people to be effective, empowered, and productive to achieve both their career and personal goals. Because we recognise that working flexibly means different things to different people, flexible working exists in many forms.   

Benefits    

• A flexible working environment    

• The opportunity to be part of a fast-growing tech company     

• A focus on development with access to Go1 learning     

• Paid time off and Quarterly Wellbeing Days     

• Employee talent referral scheme (know great people, be rewarded)     

• A fun and friendly culture working with passionate and talented people     

• A work environment where you can genuinely improve the world of work!   

We are a diverse and dispersed organisation and are actively looking to grow our team with individuals from all diverse backgrounds. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, cultures, ages, genders, neurodiversity, religions, sexual orientations, and experiences to apply.    

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