Job Description
Sydney, hybrid |Full-time | Lead level| Package: competitive, open to discuss
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The company
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A well-established financial services group is rebuilding a client-facing software platform used by businesses in a niche services vertical to run their day-to-day operations. The work is being shaped closely with those clients, and the architecture calls made now will shape how the platform scales for years.
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The group has a long-standing global presence and is continuing to modernise its technology, running a mix of newer cloud platforms alongside long-standing home-grown systems. Engineers here need to be comfortable owning architecture in a live, revenue-critical estate, not just greenfield builds.
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The role
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You will own architecture direction for a multi-team frontend, deciding when a domain becomes an independently deployable micro-frontend versus staying in the core app. Expect real influence over composition strategy, rendering approach and design system governance, not just ticket delivery.
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Day to day you will split time between hands-on development and setting technical direction, across design, testing and peer review. You will mentor engineers, drive AI-assisted engineering adoption, and have the autonomy to make hard technical calls and defend them.
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Core competencies
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Deep expertise in TypeScript and up-to-date Angular, including standalone components and signals, (or equivalent frameworks - React is fine), used to ground architecture decisions in a live production estate.
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Proven ownership of frontend architecture calls:



when to split into micro-frontends versus keep a monolith, and the judgement to push back on unnecessary fragmentation.
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Experience setting composition strategy for multi-team frontends, such as module federation versus build-time integration, weighed against operational and performance cost.
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Track record choosing rendering strategy (SPA, SSR, static, edge) based on real constraints like SEO, time-to-interactive and device conditions, not framework defaults.
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Hands-on performance work: diagnosing jank through the rendering pipeline and moving Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) in production, validated against real user monitoring.
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Sound judgement on state management, including treating the URL as a first-class store for shareable, bookmarkable views.
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History building and governing design systems adopted across multiple squads.
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Demonstrated success embedding AI-assisted engineering practices to lift team productivity and delivery.
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Mentoring track record with evidence of measurable skill uplift across a team, not just occasional pairing.
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Why it's worth a look
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Genuine architecture ownership in a large, revenue-critical estate, not a greenfield toy project.
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Hybrid working, with flexibility built into the role.
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Generous paid parental leave for both primary and secondary carers.
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Paid volunteer leave and support for charitable giving.
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Additional leave for wellbeing and long service.
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Learning and development support, including reimbursement for professional memberships.
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Reimbursement for work from home equipment.
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