Frontend Developer UI Designer

One of our Federal Government Clients is seeking to engage a Front End Developer UI Designer - APS6

Please check below all the job details

• Contract Duration: 03 Years (12 Months initially + 24 Months extension)
• Work Location: Canberra (Hybrid – 03 Days Office / 02 Days home each week)
• Eligibility: You must need to have Baseline Security Clearance or above.
• Tentative Start Date: 1st July 2026

Role Description

We are seeking experienced Front End Developers / User Interface Designers with a dual skillset, working across both disciplines to deliver intuitive, fit for purpose interfaces through a lean design process involving rapid prototyping, testing, and implementation of solutions.

Candidates will work in multi-disciplinary teams to design and develop product improvements, features, user flows, user interfaces, and front-end development.

Key duties and responsibilities

You will work closely with others in the team to:

• Help define user-centric designs, iterate and improve to add additional value, based on user feedback
• Be responsible for user-focused UI designs and specification of user flows, prototypes, high-fidelity interfaces
• Plan and perform user experience evaluation to check and confirm that usability and accessibility requirements have been met
• Implement UI component using HTML/CSS and JavaScript Work closely with the team’s user researcher and designers to translate findings from usability testing into improvements for the user interface
• Advocate and problem solve for user-centric design solutions with developers and cCoach back-end engineers on usability and front-end development

As a UI Designer, you will tackle complex problems and transform them into intuitive and easy-to-use designs. Then, communicate them by user flows, wireframes, and prototypes.

As a Front-end developer, you will work with developers translating and problem-solving designs, POC and wireframes into modules and high-quality codes for the best usability and accessibility outcomes.

Technical skills

• Experience implementing responsive UI components for web applications and websites using HTML/CSS, ReactJS and/or Angular Experience using prototyping tools such as Adobe XD, Axure or Figma is highly desirable
• Understanding and application of design principles and systems
• Understanding and implementation of WCAG 2.1 level AA guidelines as a minimum, how those guidelines relate to websites and applications, and how visual design, page and code structures.

Essential criteria

• Demonstrated experience designing user interfaces working within to an existing style guide and/or design system using HTML, CSS, and Javascript framework such as ReactJS, and/or Angular.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to work with and influence multiple stakeholders, and clearly articulate design decisions through a well-conceived rationale.
• Demonstrated experience in working with others to translate findings from usability testing into actionable improvements to a user interface.
• Knowledge and implementation of Accessibility requirements - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, level AA as a minimum.

Desirable criteria

• Demonstrated experience designing wireframes, user interfaces, and interactive prototypes with a high attention to detail and ability to rapidly prototype, test, and iterate designs.
• Tertiary Qualifications in a design or computer science/ICT related discipline (Human Factors, Communication/Graphic Design, Systems Design, Psychology, Computer Interaction, Web development etc.)

The Next step is easy: If you are interested, you may send an email to ***email_hidden***

Referral incentive program: As always, we have the candidate referral incentive program through which you will get

$1000 for each successful referral after the successful selection and joining of the referred candidates