Life at Steadfast

Steadfast is built on a simple belief: none of us are as good as all of us. It shapes how we work, how we support our brokers and partners, and how we show up for each other every day. Our Together values guide everything we do – we listen, we collaborate, we include, and we back each other to succeed. As Australia’s largest general insurance broker network, we help businesses and communities feel supported, protected and confident in the moments that matter. When you join Steadfast, you become part of a team where your ideas are welcomed, your wellbeing matters, and your growth is genuinely encouraged.

Your New Role at Steadfast

We're looking for a Senior Engineer – Frontend who is passionate about building modern, intuitive digital experiences and enjoys solving complex engineering challenges. This is a hands-on role within Steadfast Technologies, where you'll play a key role in modernising our technology platforms and shaping the future of our customer and business-facing applications.

You'll work closely with Product Managers, Architects, Engineers, Business Analysts and Cloud teams to deliver scalable, high-performing solutions across our evolving technology ecosystem. As a senior member of the engineering team, you'll bring deep expertise in React, TypeScript and modern frontend development, while contributing to broader engineering practices that drive quality, security, performance and innovation.

This role offers the opportunity to influence frontend architecture, champion engineering excellence, and help accelerate our transition from legacy technologies to a modern cloud-native environment.

What Your Days May Look Like

You might start your day collaborating with engineers and product teams to plan upcoming work, review technical designs or support solution discussions. Throughout the day, you'll be designing and developing modern React applications, building reusable components, improving user experiences, and helping shape frontend architecture decisions.

You could be reviewing pull requests, mentoring fellow engineers, contributing to CI/CD pipelines, or partnering with cloud and backend teams to deliver seamless end-to-end solutions. As part of our modern engineering culture, you'll also explore emerging technologies, AI-assisted development tools and innovative ways to improve how we build software.

No two days are the same, but every day you'll be helping deliver technology that supports thousands of brokers and customers across Australia and New Zealand.

The Work You Will Lead and Shape

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Create modern React applications, scalable UI components and shared design system assets that improve consistency and user experience.
• Collaborate with product, cloud, architecture and engineering teams to deliver high-quality solutions across multiple platforms.
• Challenge traditional approaches by contributing innovative ideas, modern frameworks and engineering best practices.
• Deliver enterprise-scale frontend modernisation initiatives, helping transition legacy platforms to contemporary architectures.
• Support engineering excellence through code reviews, mentoring, testing, automation and continuous improvement.
• Drive adoption of modern development practices including DevSecOps, AI-assisted development and cloud-native delivery.

You will also:

• Design and build reusable components, design systems and micro-frontend solutions.
• Develop scalable integrations with APIs, distributed services and Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) architectures.
• Contribute to frontend architecture, performance optimisation, accessibility and security standards.
• Build and maintain automated testing solutions, CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Support production environments, troubleshoot issues and continuously improve platform reliability.

Our Technology Journey

You'll help shape our transition from:

Current Environment

• ASP.NET Web Forms
• Ember.js
• .NET Framework and .NET Core
• Azure SQL
• PowerShell
• Jenkins and Robot Framework

Future-State Platform

• React, TypeScript, Vite and Tailwind CSS
• Design System-driven development
• .NET 8, Dapr and gRPC
• Azure SQL, Cosmos DB and Azure AI Search
• Docker, Terraform and GitHub Actions
• Playwright, Postman and modern testing frameworks
• AI-assisted development tools including GitHub Copilot

What You'll Bring

We're looking for someone who combines strong technical capability with a collaborative and growth-oriented mindset.

You'll bring:

• Experience developing modern frontend applications using React and TypeScript.
• Strong understanding of component-based architecture, state management and frontend design patterns.
• Strong understanding of state management approaches including React Query, Redux, Context API and related frontend patterns.
• Experience building reusable design systems and component libraries.
• Experience supporting incremental modernisation initiatives, including migration from legacy frontend technologies to modern React-based architectures.
• Experience with micro-frontends, modular architectures and enterprise-scale application development.
• Experience working with Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) patterns, API aggregation layers or GraphQL-based architectures.
• Experience integrating with REST APIs, GraphQL services and distributed systems.
• Experience working within Azure-based environments and modern DevSecOps practices.
• Strong understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG), responsive design and frontend performance optimisation.
• Familiarity with observability, monitoring and frontend performance instrumentation practices.
• Demonstrated ability to apply AI-assisted engineering practices across the SDLC, leveraging specification-driven development approaches, AI agents and tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code or similar to accelerate delivery while maintaining quality, security and governance
• Ability to operate within a T-shaped engineering model, combining deep frontend expertise with collaboration across APIs, cloud platforms and supporting service layers.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with a collaborative approach to problem solving.

Why Steadfast?

You will join a team that genuinely believes we are stronger together. You will be supported by leaders who want you to grow, colleagues who value your perspective, and a culture built on respect, inclusion and shared success. Here, your contribution matters and your voice is heard.

Our benefits program is built to support you through the moments that matter most, whether you're at work, at home, or anywhere life takes you. This includes generous leave entitlements, flexible work options, wellbeing resources, an employee assistance program and a range of insurance offerings that help you feel supported and protected. You will also have access to meaningful learning and development opportunities that help you build capability, explore new ideas and grow your career with confidence.

Most importantly, you will be joining a workplace where people feel safe to be themselves. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and experiences because we know that when we bring different perspectives together, we do our best work and create a place where everyone can thrive.

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