Mid-Level Developer (Frontend focus)

2025 is all about growth here at Squiz! We are building a high-performing, nimble team focused on delivering continuous enhancements and fast-turnaround digital solutions for our customers. After a 3-6 month induction period embedded in our Professional Services squads, you'll transition into a standalone business unit dedicated to enhancement work. This is more than just a developer role—it’s a customer-facing, problem-solving opportunity. You’ll be empowered to manage your own backlog, collaborate directly with clients, and deliver meaningful updates with speed and precision. This role requires a high degree of independence and responsibility. You will be expected to prioritize and manage your workload efficiently, ensuring tasks are completed on time and to a high standard, even under tight deadlines.

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, you 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 the door, we don’t take ourselves too seriously and we have fun along the way.'

The Role:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and maintain digital solutions on Squiz's DXP.
• Communicate technical solutions and updates clearly to clients and internal team members.
• Participate in client meetings to gather requirements and provide technical guidance.
• Provide feedback and suggestions on best practices for project implementation and client-facing solutions.
• Engage in regular discussions with the team to share insights, resolve challenges, and enhance team efficiency.
• Independently manage your own work priorities and meet deadlines without supervision.
• Organise tasks and balance multiple projects at once.
• Problem-solving and troubleshooting, debugging, and resolving issues in web applications.

Who you are:

• Strong HTML and CSS skills are foundational to the role; you should have experience delivering frontend implementations.
• Experience developing websites in CMSs such as Drupal, Wordpress, Silverstripe is advantageous, but not essential.
• Experience with a web software development lifecycle is advantageous, understanding written requirements, QA'ing your own code, doing code reviews of others' code and releasing code to DEV/UAT and PROD branches and environments.
• Some experience with back-end technologies such as Node.js. (We develop in services which run Node.js; you may need to convert implementation from scripting languages like Python or PHP occasionally.)
• Familiarity with data modelling; you will not be writing SQL but need to understand how data can be modelled in SQL and key:value stores.
• 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.
• Familiarity with using tools like Jira to manage your own backlog and communicate with clients.
• This role will require SC clearance.

Benefits:

• Squiz Flex - Have flexibility as to where and how you work every day.
• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• 2 days of Compassionate Leave.
• Company Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.
• Open Door Policy - No need to worry about chain of command here at Squiz.

We understand the effort it takes to apply for a role. We are committed to respond to each and every applicant, successful or not.