Front End Developer

Role: Front End Developer (UI Designer)

Location: Canberra

Must hold a current Baseline security clearance

Job Description:

Key duties and responsibilities

You will work closely with others in the team to:

• help define user-centric designs, iterate and improve to add additional value, based on user feedback
• Be responsible for user-focused UI designs and specification of user flows, prototypes, high-fidelity interfaces
• Plan and perform user experience evaluation to check and confirm that usability and accessibility requirements have been met
• Implement UI component using HTML/CSS and JavaScript Work closely with the team’s user researcher and designers to translate findings from usability testing into improvements for the user interface
• Advocate and problem solve for user-centric design solutions with developers and cCoach back-end engineers on usability and front-end development

As a UI Designer, you will tackle complex problems and transform them into intuitive and easy-to-use designs. Then, communicate them by user flows, wireframes, and prototypes.

As a Front-end developer, you will work with developers translating and problem-solving designs, POC and wireframes into modules and high-quality codes for the best usability and accessibility outcomes.

Technical skills

Required skills and experience: Experience implementing responsive UI components for web applications and websites using HTML/CSS, ReactJS and/or Angular Experience using prototyping tools such as Adobe XD, Axure or Figma is highly desirable Understanding and application of design principles and systems Understanding and implementation of WCAG.

Essential criteria

• Demonstrated experience designing user interfaces working within to an existing style guide and/or design system using HTML, CSS, and Javascript framework such as ReactJS, and/or Angular.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to work with and influence multiple stakeholders, and clearly articulate design decisions through a well-conceived rationale.
• Demonstrated experience in working with others to translate findings from usability testing into actionable improvements to a user interface.
• Knowledge and implementation of Accessibility requirements - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, level AA as a minimum.

Desirable criteria

• Demonstrated experience designing wireframes, user interfaces, and interactive prototypes with a high attention to detail and ability to rapidly prototype, test, and iterate designs.
• Tertiary Qualifications in a design or computer science/ICT related discipline (Human Factors, Communication/Graphic Design, Systems Design, Psychology, Computer Interaction, Web development etc.)

Interested Candidates can share their updated resumes on [email protected] or can reach me on +61283195549