Senior Frontend Engineer
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What does the Senior Frontend Engineer role at National Digital involve?
It is a full-time, remote senior frontend role open Australia-wide, paying $110,000–$125,000 plus superannuation. The role centres on user experience and accessibility. You design and test client platform flows with users and assistive technology, and build interfaces to WCAG 2.2 AA.
Senior Frontend Engineer – UX & Accessibility
Full TimeRemote (Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia)38 hrs/week
National Digital is hiring a full-time Senior Frontend Engineer whose main strength is user experience and accessibility design. The role is remote and open anywhere in Australia. You will shape how people use our clients' platforms, including customer portals, booking flows, e-commerce checkouts and content sites. You will research and design the flows, test them with users and with assistive technology, and make sure the finished interface meets WCAG 2.2 AA. You will write production frontend code, and you will spend as much of your time on research, interaction design and accessibility review as on code. The salary range is $110,000–$125,000 plus superannuation, depending on experience.
Salary
$110,000 – $125,000 per year
Key Responsibilities
- Lead UX design for client platforms, from research and flows to prototypes and usability testing
- Own accessibility on every platform, including audits, remediation plans and the automated checks that block a release
- Build and maintain design systems that keep interfaces consistent across a client's products
- Build interfaces in production code where a design needs an engineer to hold it
- Review frontend pull requests for usability, accessibility and performance
- Advise clients on their accessibility obligations and report on conformance
Requirements
- 6+ years in frontend or UX engineering roles, with a portfolio of shipped interfaces you designed and built
- UX practice you can show, including user research, journey mapping, prototyping and usability testing with users
- Expert knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA, including manual testing with screen readers (NVDA and VoiceOver) and keyboard-only use
- Interaction design for complex flows such as multi-step forms, booking and checkout, with clear error and recovery states
- Design-system experience covering tokens, component specifications and documentation that designers and engineers both use
- Fluency in Figma, and the ability to take a design into production yourself
- Production frontend development with semantic HTML, modern CSS and TypeScript in a component framework
- Tertiary qualification in design, Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrated industry experience
- Based in Australia with full, unrestricted working rights (Australian citizen or permanent resident)
- Willingness to complete a National Police Check and provide professional references prior to commencement
Bonus Skills / Nice to Have
- IAAP certification (CPACC or WAS)
- Experience writing accessibility conformance reports or VPATs
- Content design and plain-language writing
- Experience designing interfaces for AI features such as chat, search and agent workflows
- Motion design that respects reduced-motion settings
Contract Details
Full-time / Remote (Australia)38 hrs/week
Benefits
Full-time remote work anywhere in Australia, with flexible hours$110,000–$125,000 plus superannuation, depending on experienceOwnership of UX and accessibility across long-term client platformsHardware of your choice and a professional development budgetA small senior team in which you set the design and accessibility standards
How to Apply: Send a short summary of your experience and a link to your portfolio. Pick one project and tell us what you learned from its users, what you changed because of it and how you checked that it worked for people using assistive technology.
Email Application careers@nationaldigital.com.au