Staff Software Engineer - SaaS

Title: Staff Software Engineer (Frontend) (SaaS)

Location: Sydney NSW AU

Type: Full-time

Workplace: Hybrid remote

Job Description:

Description

NEWLY CREATED ROLE !! 

Who are we?

So you might ask, who's CreditorWatch? Well, we are a leading Australian data and technology company that provides businesses with access to unique data and innovative products. By using our platform, our customers can confidently manage their commercial relationships, improve productivity and reduce financial risk.

As a commercial credit reporting bureau, we offer a complete suite of credit reporting products and data insights covering the entire customer lifecycle, from customer onboarding and credit decision automation to credit risk management and automated collections.

We were established in 2010 and most recently were named as one of AFR's Top 10 Best Places to Work as well as certified by Great Place to Work consecutively across 2022 and 2023.

We saw significant growth in 2024 and that's not about to change. We are on track to break records in 2025, scaling at pace, making this the perfect time to join CreditorWatch.

Our Purpose

 Empower Australian businesses to trade confidently with their customers.

Our Mission

 We aim to be number one in our industry by delivering unique data insights and innovative products.

Your Role & Team

We're looking for a hands-on Staff Software Engineer (Frontend) to help shape the direction of our frontend architecture, tooling, and practices across multiple squads. Youʼll operate as a senior technical expert, collaborating with design and engineering leaders to elevate the frontend craft across CreditorWatch.

In this role your influence will span multiple teams. You'll drive cross-cutting frontend initiatives, set coding standards, lead strategic discussions, and champion frontend quality across the board.

This is an opportunity for someone who loves building robust, user-friendly web applications, has strong Angular and React experience, and wants to lead by doing.

This role reports directly to the Engineering Manager and is a full-time opportunity offering hybrid working conditions out of our Sydney CBD Office.

Some of your responsibilities include and are not limited to:

• Hands-on development: Write, review, and maintain high-quality, scalable and secure frontend code primarily in Angular and React.
• Frontend strategy & standards: Define and advocate for coding best practices, architecture guidelines, testing strategies, and maintainability principles across teams.
• Technical leadership: Be a thought leader across squads, influencing design and implementation decisions, particularly in frontend-heavy initiatives.
• Frontend guild facilitation: Organise and lead the frontend guild, creating space for engineers to collaborate on shared challenges, demos, and learning.
• Design collaboration: Work closely with the Head of Design to align implementation with design vision, bridge gaps between design and development, and plan cross-team frontend efforts.
• Storybook & UI consistency: Maintain and evolve our component libraries using tools like Storybook, ensuring reusability, accessibility, and design fidelity.
• Security champion: Advocate security and privacy best practices across frontend applications, from secure handling of sensitive data to safe usage of third-party dependencies.
• Tech mentorship: Guide engineers through informal mentoring, code reviews, and pairing in writing secure, maintainable and well-tested frontend codebase. Elevate engineering thinking through high-quality feedback and modelling best practices.
• Department-wide engagement: Present technical decisions, demos, or initiatives to the broader engineering department and advocate for frontend improvements company-wide.
• Proactive improvement: Identify and drive improvements to tooling, architecture, and developer experience before being asked.
• Polyglot mindset: Comfortably pick up and evaluate new tools, libraries, or frameworks where appropriate. Understand when and why a new technology is (or isnʼt) a good fit.

Our ideal candidate

• Youʼre a highly experienced frontend engineer with deep expertise in Angular and React.
• You care deeply about shipping high-quality, user-friendly experiences that are robust and secure.
• Youʼve worked on large-scale frontend applications and know how to balance pragmatism with scalability.
• You have a deep understanding of frontend security principles (e.g., XSS, CSRF, CSP, CORS, authentication flows) and how to mitigate them
• Youʼre a strong communicator and can influence across squads and disciplines.
• Youʼre comfortable navigating ambiguous requirements and creating clarity for others.
• Youʼve worked with Storybook or similar tools to maintain component libraries and drive UI consistency.
• You regularly lead by example through clean, simple, and extensible code.
• Youʼve built observable frontend systems — you know how to instrument code for metrics that matter, and how to use them to debug and optimise experiences.
• You proactively improve systems, not just code – advocating for better testing, observability, and deployment strategies.
• Youʼre a strategic thinker who can align frontend architecture with broader business and design goals. 
• Youʼre constantly learning and exploring how emerging frontend tech might be applied to real business problems.

More than just work

 Keep Active – All employees get a Fitness First Platinum gym membership.

 Daily Fuel – Barista-made coffee, breakfast, snacks, lunches and drinks on us – we got you! Phone Credits - We pay you $50 per month to put towards your plans - how good.

 Wellness Days – Receive an additional day off each month. Whether you’re pursuing physical activities, cultivating your mental wellbeing or supporting your community… this is your time to switch off from work.

 Monthly Massages – We offer monthly in-house massages to soothe those sore spots and tight knots. Poor posture? Stressful week? We get it.

 Bonus Shares – We offer our dedicated employees’ performance-based bonuses. Our employees are also permitted to gain access to our bespoke Employee Share Scheme, giving you the rare opportunity to invest in a growing technology company.

 Fun Activities – We love escaping the workplace to do fun stuff. Whether its pasta-making, sailing classes, touch footy, winery tours, go karting or relaxing on the company boat (yeah… we own a boat) – these monthly team building activities will keep you feeling valued and connected.

 Legal Services – Our employees get access to free legal services – from conveyancing and property advice to legal assistance around wills, trusts, powers of attorney and more. We make life easier for you, saving you time, money and unnecessary headaches.

Our Values

 The 1%’ers add up – Our commitment to going that one step further sets us apart, as we believe that small efforts or improvements in any aspect of our work collectively lead to significant success.

 We are dependable and trustworthy – Our clients are everything to us and we are passionate about maintaining and delivering reliable and trusted services to them.

 We are committed to growth – Our success comes from our ability to grow and adapt; both collectively and individually. We set the bar high to ensure we continue to innovate and exceed expectations. We are dedicated to the development of our business and our people.

🫶🏾 Our people make the difference – Just as we help small businesses think big, we help our employees achieve their aspirations. We provide our people with challenges and opportunities, supporting them to live their best lives.

Recruitment Process – We like to keep it simple!

1. Phone Screening – A deep dive into the company, role and experience required, including a thorough review of your match to the role – let’s get to know each other and ensure the opportunity is a match!
2. Hiring Manager Meeting – This is an opportunity to showcase why your background and skill set aligns to the role and ask questions – be as curious as you want!
3. Functional Meeting – Let’s get technical. Here you’ll be set up with a take home case-challenge that is designed to look into the way you think and approach certain situations.
4. Values Meeting – We’d love to hear why CreditorWatch and see how you’d fit into our world.

We are committed to you

We offer a fantastic culture with open communication and rewards and recognition that include probation celebrations, all-staff birthday and service anniversary celebrations.

We are an equal opportunity employer and committed to excellence through diversity. We do not discriminate on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.