Senior Application Developer

About Us

UniSuper is a workplace where highly skilled professionals are empowered to Think Great and deliver exceptional retirement outcomes for our members.

The Technology & Delivery team ensures the sustained health and maintenance of UniSuper’s core systems and platforms - to provide high availability, stability and performance. We remain committed to partner with business units to provide business driven scale and simplification, guidance and delivery of the Enterprise Portfolio and technologies required to enable business capabilities and support the execution of UniSuper’s Strategy.

Make an impact as a Senior Application Developer - Next.js, shaping modern digital experiences that are secure, accessible, high-performing and built to support our members and employers.

The role

You will design, develop and support modern web applications with a strong focus on front-end engineering, Next.js, React, TypeScript and scalable component-based architecture.

Working in a cross-functional Agile team, you will collaborate with Product, UX, Architecture, Quality Engineering, Technology teams and business stakeholders to deliver maintainable digital experiences.

You will:

• Design, develop, test and maintain modern web applications using Next.js, React and TypeScript.
• Deliver scalable, maintainable and reusable component-based architecture.
• Build accessible, responsive and high-performing user interfaces aligned to UX, brand and engineering standards.
• Contribute to reusable component libraries, design system patterns and modern front-end practices.
• Apply modern Next.js patterns including server-side rendering, static generation and app-based routing where appropriate.
• Support performance, accessibility, security, search engine optimisation, release readiness and production issue resolution.

About you

You bring strong commercial experience in front-end or web development, with hands-on expertise across Next.js, React and TypeScript.

You enjoy solving technical problems, working closely with product and design teams and building clean, maintainable solutions that improve the digital experience.

You will bring:

• Strong experience building responsive, accessible and high-performance web applications.
• Strong understanding of component-based architecture, state management, API integration and front-end testing.
• Experience contributing to front-end architecture, coding standards, reusable patterns and code reviews.
• Experience working with REST APIs, GraphQL or other integration patterns.
• Strong understanding of web performance, accessibility, browser compatibility and secure front-end development practices.
• Experience working in Agile delivery teams alongside Product, UX, Quality Engineering and backend or platform teams.
• Experience with Storybook, design systems, Vercel, Sitecore XM Cloud, Sitecore JSS, Angular, Node.js, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub or Azure DevOps would be highly regarded.

What We Offer

UniSuper believes that the best way to achieve great things is when we come together and collaborate. Therefore, we ask you to be able to commit to 60% of your time in office. UniSuper is proud of our culture and benefits, which empower our people to achieve their full potential, thrive, and grow their career with us. These include:

• $1,500 development budget
• Office closure
• Culture, Community and Wellbeing Leave
• Parental leave

It should go without saying, but at UniSuper, we value and celebrate diversity and inclusion. We believe that a variety of perspectives, backgrounds, interests, abilities, and skills is crucial for delivering great retirement outcomes for our members. We invite you to apply for the roles that suit your career aspirations, even if you don’t meet all the requirements.

If you feel you have the experience and skills required for this role, please apply!

Think Great. Create Great.