Frontend Engineer

Location: Melbourne, VIC, au

Company Description

• Shape the future of insurance with innovative ideas and technologies that improve the lives of millions of Australians
•  Work with experienced and skilled colleagues who support and inspire one another to achieve collective success
• Enjoy benefits such as discounted insurance, health and well-being programs, and a range of employee benefits to support your lifestyle

Why join us?

For over 150 years, we've never stopped finding better ways to protect Australians. As one of the nation’s leading life insurers, we’re driven by ambition and a sense of purpose. Our responsibility to our customers, partners, and the broader community is at the heart of everything we do. 

At TAL, we’re empowered to experiment, innovate, and create better products and services. Backed by Daiichi Life, one of the world’s largest insurers, we deliver financial security to millions of Australians through our care and expertise. Bring your curious mind and ambition to shape our industry and help us become the progressive, digitally enabled, leading insurer we aim to be. 

Job Description

TAL's Lifebroker’s Engineering team plays a pivotal part in TAL’s broader mission to protect the things Australians love and value by building the digital front door to life insurance. We’re creating a modern, cloud-native platform that makes it simpler for customers to compare, choose and manage cover with confidence. In this role, you’ll help shape the frontend experience where people meet our transformation in real time, turning complex journeys into clear, human moments. Your work will directly support better outcomes for customers and partners, and help Lifebroker grow with speed, scale and care so more Australians can get the protection they need, when it matters most.

In this role you will:

• Create fast, accessible user experiences customers can trust.
• Deliver independently deployable UI modules that scale across the platform.
• Grow a consistent component library that speeds delivery and strengthens the design system.
• Uphold quality standards so the UI stays reliable, maintainable and easy to change.
• Partner with product, design and engineering to ship cohesive experiences end to end.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate delivery and focus effort on high-value problems.

Qualifications

• Bring 3+ years’ frontend development experience, with React apps shipped to production.
• Use TypeScript confidently to build clear, type-safe user interfaces.
• Experience building modern React (and ideally Next.js) experiences using hooks and sensible state patterns.
• Sound frontend architecture decision making capability
• Ability to work effectively within a design system, translating designs into consistent, reusable UI.
• Care about quality accessibility, performance and testing and speak up early when something risks the customer experience.

Additional Information

TAL is one of Australia’s leading life insurers, committed to inclusion, and supporting the career growth of our diverse workforce. We’re proud to be:

• An Inclusive Employer – Recognised as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency and Bronze Tier Status within the Australian Workplace Equality Index
• Diversity Champions – Member of Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network, Pride in Diversity and Champions of Change
• Reconciliation Advocates – Read our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.
• We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, caregivers, individuals living with disabilities, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the LGBTIQ+ community.
• Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Let our team know by getting in touch with us here.—we’re here to support you.

You’re always accountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners. And you value working together to find the best solutions for problems. 

As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks.

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Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s responsibility.

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