Senior/Lead Frontend Developer (Website/CMS/Consulting) - 12 Month Fixed Te

at  Squiz

Squiz is looking to add a Senior/Lead Front End Developer to it’s professional services team, someone who is looking for a role where you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects within various sectors. You will focus on assuring our clients get the best result possible (technical and best practice). Ability to not just develop but work with clients to design/architect solutions.

WHO WE ARE:

Squiz helps complex, service-led organisations harness the power of digital, improving the services they offer online.
Founded in 1998, Squiz grew during the rise of the internet. Since then, we have evolved from a simple web content management system into a full digital experience platform (DXP), helping customers make the shift from being content managers to experience creators.
The Squiz DXP brings together content, search, data and applications in one place. To get the most out of the platform, customers can collaborate with our digital experts to design solutions and adapt as demands change.
We are headquartered in Australia, with teams and customers across the globe, and offices in New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom and Poland.
Come as you are - We celebrate diversity and unite on the elements of our company DNA, starting every customer conversation with “why?” to really understand their needs, working hard to find a way to overcome every challenge, and fighting for better outcomes with the work we do. We also check our egos at door, we don’t take ourselves too seriously and we have fun along the way.

FOR THIS ROLE, WE ASK THAT YOU CAN DEMONSTRATE:

• Strength in frontend web development technologies - Javascript (vanilla Js and various frameworks React), Html, CSS etc
• Strong experience with website, portals, intranets and CMS
• Desire to continue coding and being very hands-on
• Confidence and articulate communication skills
• Experience in a client-facing role, and skilled at managing stakeholders
• Experience in planning, designing and building, high-quality, robust websites or applications.
• Experience at providing technical leadership
• Analytical capabilities to consider multiple solutions, and assess strengths and weaknesses of each
• Experience in gathering and writing technical specifications

WE UNDERSTAND THE EFFORT IT TAKES TO APPLY FOR A ROLE. WE ARE COMMITTED TO RESPOND TO EACH AND EVERY APPLICANT, SUCCESSFUL OR NOT.

Recruitment Agencies: We politely ask that you avoid making any approaches or sending any unsolicited resumes to our Recruitment Team or Hiring Leaders across our business. Squiz is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

What you would do:

• Overall technical delivery of projects (budget, timeline, quality, scope)
• Ensure buy-in from development teams and stakeholders to proposed solutions
• Ensure best development practise is followed
• Provide accurate estimates on tickets
• Mentor and provide direction to peer developers
• Strong, respected partnership with the Agile Project Manager
• Technical delivery of the project/work to the client’s satisfaction
• Constant evaluation and validation of technical assumptions
• Feedback to Development Manager on areas of training / professional development for developers
• Note - this is not a daily rate contrac