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Careers at National Digital

Senior remote roles across Australia in engineering, design, machine learning and sales. Every role states its salary up front.

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What is it like to work at National Digital?

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National Digital is a small, senior, remote-first engineering team working across Australia. Roles are stated with salary up front, hours are genuinely flexible, and every engineer owns real production platforms — with AI-assisted workflows and no bureaucracy.

Why work at National Digital

National Digital is a small, senior digital engineering consultancy that builds custom software, integrations and AI automation for established Australian organisations. We've been shipping production platforms since 2016 — customer portals, booking systems, e-commerce and headless CMS builds that real businesses depend on every day. You can read who we are and how we work, or browse the case studies behind that claim.

We keep the team deliberately small, which changes what a job here looks like. There are no layers between you and the client, no work handed down a chain, and nowhere for quality to hide. You'll own real slices of real platforms, with your name on the outcome — and with senior engineers reviewing your work because they're on the same codebase, not because a process says so.

How we build

We work remote-first across Australia, on a modern production stack, with an AI-assisted engineering workflow — code review, test generation and content operations run with the same automation we build for clients. We adopted these tools early because we build them for a living; you'll learn to use them well, and just as importantly, to hold the quality bar on their output.

What we offer

  • Remote-first, Australia-wide — flexible hours that respect your life outside work
  • Small senior team: direct mentorship, direct client impact, no bureaucracy
  • A modern production stack on AWS, and the time to use it properly
  • Professional development budget for courses, conferences and certifications
  • Varied work across industries: accommodation, medtech, SaaS, e-commerce
  • Salaries reviewed against the Australian market, stated up front on every role

Current openings

Senior Frontend Engineer – UX & Accessibility

Full Time

Location
Remote (Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia)
Salary
$110,000 – $125,000 per year
Hours
38 hrs/week

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

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Senior Backend Engineer – API Design & Integration

Full Time

Location
Remote (Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia)
Salary
$115,000 – $130,000 per year
Hours
38 hrs/week

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional backend engineering, including 4+ years designing APIs that other teams and third parties build against
  • API design decisions you can explain in detail, covering resource modelling, versioning and deprecation, pagination, idempotency, error contracts and rate limits
  • Contract-first delivery with OpenAPI, including generated clients and CI checks that fail when an API and its consumers disagree
  • Production experience in both Node.js (TypeScript) and Laravel, and the willingness to work in either
  • Authentication and authorisation design for multi-tenant systems, including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, per-role and per-resource access, and tenant scoping on every query
  • Integration design for systems you do not control, including verified webhooks, retries, queues and reconciliation
  • Relational data modelling and migration on PostgreSQL or MySQL
  • Security practice to the OWASP API Security Top 10
  • Tertiary qualification in 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

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QA Engineer – Product Quality & Test Automation

Part Time

Location
Remote (Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia)
Salary
$85,000 – $95,000 per year
Hours
15–25 hrs/week

Requirements

  • 4+ years in software quality assurance, including writing and maintaining automated tests in the codebase
  • Production Playwright experience, or Cypress experience and the willingness to switch
  • Technical investigation skills, including browser developer tools, direct API calls, SQL queries against a test database and reading application logs
  • Enough code literacy to read a pull request, understand what changed and judge what it puts at risk
  • API testing alongside UI automation, including contract checks against an OpenAPI specification
  • Accessibility testing to WCAG 2.2 with axe and screen-reader checks
  • Risk-based test planning that starts from how the product makes money and where its users get stuck
  • Clear written bug reports that let a developer reproduce the fault on the first attempt
  • Tertiary qualification in IT/Computer Science, ISTQB certification, or equivalent demonstrated 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

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Business Development Manager – New Business

Full Time

Location
Remote (Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia)
Salary
$110,000 – $130,000 per year
Hours
38 hrs/week

Requirements

  • 5+ years in B2B new-business sales, including 3+ years selling software development, digital services or technology consulting
  • A record of winning new clients from your own prospecting, with deal sizes and win rates you can discuss
  • Experience selling to senior leaders in mid-sized and large organisations, such as chief executives, operations leads and IT leads
  • Enough technical understanding to discuss integrations, custom platforms and AI automation with a client, and to know when to bring in an engineer
  • Experience responding to tenders and procurement panels in Australia
  • Disciplined use of a CRM for pipeline management, forecasting and follow-up
  • Clear writing for proposals, emails and LinkedIn
  • 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

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Senior Machine Learning Engineer – Model Design & Evaluation

Full Time

Location
Remote (Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia)
Salary
$150,000 – $180,000 per year
Hours
38 hrs/week

Requirements

  • 5+ years in machine learning engineering, with models you trained or adapted running in production
  • Fine-tuning and post-training experience with open-weight language models, including supervised fine-tuning, preference optimisation and parameter-efficient methods such as LoRA
  • Evaluation design, including task-specific test sets, graded rubrics, model-graded evaluation and the statistics to separate a real improvement from noise
  • Model design judgement about when a prompt is enough, when retrieval is needed, when to fine-tune and when a small classifier will outperform a large model
  • Training data work, including collection, labelling, synthetic data generation and quality control within Australian privacy law
  • Serving and optimising models in production, including quantisation, batching, latency and cost per request on cloud GPU infrastructure
  • Production Python and the PyTorch ecosystem
  • A degree in Computer Science, mathematics, statistics or a related field, or equivalent research or 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

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How we hire

We believe in a transparent, respectful process that values your time and gives you a realistic view of what working here is like. No surprise stages, no puzzles on a whiteboard.

1. Application review

We reply to every application, typically within a week. If your experience aligns with the role, we'll set up an initial conversation.

2. Initial interview

A 30–45 minute video call about your experience, technical background and what you're looking for. Ask us anything — including the uncomfortable questions.

3. Practical assessment

A short, role-relevant exercise (typically 2–3 hours, completed in your own time). Real-world problem-solving, never algorithmic trivia.

4. Final interview

A deeper conversation (usually 60–90 minutes): we review your assessment together, dig into technical judgement, and make sure the fit works both ways.

5. Offer and checks

If everything lines up, we typically extend an offer within 2–3 business days. Offers are subject to a National Police Check and reference checks — standard for a team trusted with client systems and data.

The fine print

All roles require you to be based in Australia with full, unrestricted working rights (Australian citizen or permanent resident) — we can't offer visa sponsorship at this time. Successful candidates complete a National Police Check and provide professional references before commencement.

Equal opportunity

National Digital is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to an inclusive environment for everyone. If you need accommodations at any point in the application or interview process, tell us and we'll make it work.

No role that fits?

We're always open to meeting strong engineers, designers, testers and salespeople — headcount grows deliberately, but the door is never closed. Send a short introduction and links to your work to careers@nationaldigital.com.au and we'll keep you in mind as roles open up.