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Staff UI Engineer

Hireup

Hireup is an online platform and community for people with disability and their families to find, hire and manage support workers that fit their needs and share their interests. Whether it’s support with getting to work or catching a local footy game, Hireup gives people the tools to live life on their own terms. With thousands of registered users, Hireup is a national network of local supports committed to delivering an individualised approach and a community-driven future for the disability sector. As a purpose-led organisation with over 200 HQ staff (and growing), we are dedicated to powering the evolution of the disability sector. We do this by keeping the community at the heart of our decision making and encouraging a culture defined by kindness, innovation, equality and storytelling.

At Hireup, we understand the important role technology, and specifically, digital product plays in connecting people. For our team, it’s not only about creating the most elegant, intuitive, accessible and powerful peer-to-peer platform in Australia, but to ensure we are building an efficient and lean model that maximises choice and control for both Australians living with disability and their support workers. The team is passionate about solving complex problems and love being able to see the direct impact these solutions have for the thousands of people in Hireup’s rapidly growing community.

As a highly experienced UI Software Engineer, your primary focus will be to support and collaborate with other members of our Product team to discover, design and implement product features that will have significant business and user impact. As a technical leader within the team you’ll actively contribute to front-end architecture, team health and process while role modelling engineering best-practices.

The role

  • Work closely with product designers and other engineers to deliver accessible, robust and performant user interfaces
  • Assist in the implementation, maintenance and evolution of our component library and design system
  • Build new features, and iterate on existing ones through creative and technical excellence
  • Help mature the testing practices within the team
  • Facilitate team process and technical decision making through collaboration with the team and business stakeholders
  • Contribute to our front-end replatforming efforts
  • Grow our development capabilities through mentoring, educating and supporting other engineers
  • Help build a culture of innovation and technical excellence and actively contribute to our various engineering & design communities of practice

The person:

You...

  • Are passionate about building great digital products for the web
  • Have a thorough understanding of and ability to implement accessibility best practices
  • Possess a deep understanding of modern CSS: architecture, best practices, performance and maintenance and a comprehensive knowledge of semantic HTML
  • Have a keen design-eye, and appreciation of common design principles and understand the things that create delightful user experiences
  • Care about quality, maintainability and the craft of software development
  • Think and operate in terms of end user value and strive to balance technical priorities with pace of delivery
  • Have an interest in the development of the team and wellbeing of team members
  • Are collaborative and like working with fast-paced agile product teams
  • Have a strong connection to, or interest, in building an understanding of the Australian disability sector and community

You ideally have experience with (most but not necessarily all)...

  • Multiple, modern JavaScript front-end frameworks such as Vue.js, Angular or React
  • Front-end performance optimisation techniques
  • Solving cross-browser and cross-platform differences and challenges
  • Working with tools to design, orchestrate, test, build and release your work

The benefits

  • The chance to be part of a meaningful challenge and witness the positive social impact of your work
  • An open, inclusive and supportive team culture that thrives on new ideas and innovation
  • Access to exciting and challenging projects and tools for your personal and professional development
  • A highly flexible environment that includes part-time and remote work opportunities 
  • 9 additional days of leave per year to support you with your wellbeing and learning goals; plus
  • A leading approach to Family Leave that offers 12 weeks of paid leave for all new parents!

Apply now

People with lived experience of disability are strongly encouraged to apply.

For more information about the role and how it fits within Hireup, contact our Talent Acquisition Manager Jess via [email protected], using the subject line: Senior UI Engineer enquiry via EthicalJobs, or 0436 450 457. Heads up! Our recruitment and onboarding process is currently being conducted remotely via Zoom.

We are dedicated to creating inclusive and accessible candidate experiences for all and we encourage you to contact us if you have suggestions on how we can improve or adjust our approach to ensure an enjoyable, fair and informative candidate experience.

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