2025 is all about growth here at Squiz🚀 ! We are looking for a frontend developer to join the Squiz marketing team – working closely with marketers, UX/UI designers, and digital specialists to build, maintain and enhance our public-facing web presence. While you’ll be the solo developer in the marketing team, you’ll be backed by a global network of engineers, designers, product managers and technical consultants across the Squiz organisation.
Your day-to-day will involve building components and pages in our DXP, recommending frontend solutions, problem-solving bugs, and contributing ideas to help us create the fastest, smartest, most personalised experience for our customers and prospects.
We value independence, initiative and creativity – especially when it comes to leveraging AI tools, exploring new frontend tech, and challenging the status quo.
Sydney based with the ability to visit the Sydney Office on a weekly basis.
The Role:
- Build pages, components and interfaces using HTML, CSS (SCSS, Tailwind) and JavaScript (vanilla, React)
- Translate marketing requirements and designs into modern, responsive, high-performing web experiences
- Optimise frontend performance and accessibility across devices and browsers
- Work independently and manage your own work via Jira, in collaboration with stakeholders
- Troubleshoot and QA your own work (we also have a QA team to help); contribute to code reviews and technical planning
- Recommend the right features, tools and approaches from our DXP to meet business goals
- Work with global peers to solve new challenges and break new ground - you’ll have the people that built the product on-tap and the opportunity to influence product development as you build
- Collaborate with backend and product teams to ensure seamless integration
- Support website projects end-to-end, from idea to delivery
Who you are:
- Advanced proficiency in front-end technologies, including accessible HTML, JavaScript, CSS, APIs and frameworks such as Tailwind and React.
- Experience writing backend scripts and APIs using Node.js and related frameworks
- Strong understanding of content management concepts and experience using CMS to build websites, apps and portals
- Experience with a web software development lifecycle is advantageous, understanding written requirements, QA’ing your own code, releasing code to DEV/UAT and PROD branches and environments
- Strong experience using code repositories - we use gitlab extensively
- Knowledge of web security best practices and performance optimisation techniques
- Demonstrable troubleshooting skills, ability to understand how a solution or implementation fits within a large SaaS platform
- Experience working in collaborative agile environments, using tools such as Jira and Git
Who we are:
Squiz empowers complex, service-driven organisations to leverage the power of digital and enhance the services they offer online.
Founded in 1998, Squiz grew alongside the rise of the internet. Over the years, we've evolved from a web content management system into a comprehensive Digital Experience Platform (DXP), supporting our customers as they transition from content managers to experience creators.
Our Squiz DXP integrates content, search, data, and applications into a unified platform. To fully harness its potential, our customers collaborate with our digital experts to design tailored solutions and adapt to ever-changing needs.
Headquartered in Australia, we have teams and customers around the world, with offices in New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Poland.
Why Squiz?
You'll work with some of the most intelligent and down-to-earth people you'll ever meet. We are a diverse team of passionate professionals who love challenging the status quo. Every day is different, but one thing that's constant is that we all love what we do.
We are deeply committed to flexibility because we understand that our people's success depends on maintaining a balanced life. With our flexible working policy will have the flexibility to choose where and how you work each day. Our goal is for you to work in a way that fosters productivity, efficiency, and positive outcomes, while also encouraging connection and collaboration.
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.
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.
