UX Engineer — The Rocks, Sydney

Expired

This is a UX Engineer role with one of the leading companies in AU right now Ignition with an amazing team. They are continuing to grow rapidly. This is the chance to join right as the takes off. More About the Role at Ignition Role location: We welcome candidates from Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane who have full work rights. Our APAC team operates across Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines, with primary hubs in Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne. We recognize that each employee has unique needs, and we strive to create an environment where you can thrive. That’s why we prioritize flexibility to enhance your productivity. Across all our locations, we have fully adopted hybrid work arrangements, allowing you the option to work from home, a shared workspace, or a combination of both. Job Description About the role: As a UX Engineer at Ignition, you will play a key role in shaping the overall user experience across our product. This role is focused on making our user interface more intuitive, polished, and consistent to create a seamless experience that is easy to navigate and use. You’ll not only write code but also work closely with our design team to evolve design patterns, remove user friction, and ensure a cohesive flow throughout the app. This position requires both strong frontend technical skills and a passion for delivering high-quality, user-centred solutions, with a focus on balancing design vision with technical feasibility. What your day to day will look like: - Plan and execute ongoing UX improvements, refining the user experience and resolving usability issues to make the product more intuitive and user-friendly - Help improve and maintain the component library to ensure our UI remains cohesive, reusable, and efficient across the product - Work closely with designers, giving practical feedback to ensure that design goals are achievable without sacrificing technical feasibility or maintainability - Support efforts to optimise frontend performance, enhancing speed and responsiveness for seamless user interactions across all browsers and devices. - Collaborate with other frontend engineers, reviewing code and sharing insights to help the team consistently raise the bar on quality - Stay sharp by keeping up with evolving frontend tools and best practices, and apply that knowledge to make the product and process better every day - Document your work and decisions, ensuring the team has a clear understanding of how things work and why choices were made How we do it - We care about quality where it counts, ensuring the details align with our high standards while staying focused on delivering impactful improvements - Collaboration is key, as we work closely across teams to ensure designers, frontend engineers, and product teams stay aligned and move toward shared goals - We design for scalability and maintainability, prioritising solutions that can grow with the product and are easy to maintain in the long term - Challenging assumptions is part of our process, encouraging open feedback and discussions to deliver better outcomes - We iterate quickly, shipping small, incremental changes that provide value fast while continuously learning and improving - Everything we do is centred on the user, whether it’s resolving usability issues or refining design patterns to create a smoother experience - Accountability is essential, and everyone takes responsibility for the quality of what we build, from start to finish - We stay current on best practices and share what we learn with the team, ensuring we’re always growing and improving together Qualifications What you need to succeed: - 3 years of frontend development experience, particularly in JavaScript and React, with a focus on building maintainable, scalable interfaces - A solid understanding of design systems and component libraries, and how they contribute to cohesive UI patterns - The ability to provide and receive constructive feedback, fostering a collaborative environment that enhances both design and engineering efforts - An eye for detail and a high standard for quality, balanced with a pragmatic approach to delivering impactful results - A proactive attitude toward problem-solving, with the ability to identify usability issues and suggest practical, user-centred solutions - A genuine passion for creating intuitive, user-friendly experiences that meet real user needs - Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams If you don’t think you're a perfect fit, you should still sign up to Hatch and create a profile, we'll match you to other roles that suit your profile. 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