Senior Front End Developer

Port Macquarie - Australia

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 07-11-2025

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description

We are unique

Join our organisation and experience a culture that fosters camaraderie and personal growth serving and connecting the regional communities of NSW and southern QLD. Enjoy work-life balance and training and development opportunities across a diverse range of career pathways.

This is a secondment/fixed term position for 12 months and can be based anywhere within Essential Energys operational footprint.

About the role

As a Senior Front End Developer at Essential Energy youll be responsible for designing and developing highly scalable responsive web applications for enterprise systems. Youll work across the full software development lifecycle collaborating with Product Owners Project Managers Backend and UX teams to deliver outstanding user experiences. Your expertise in modern frameworks and best practices will help drive innovation maintain compliance and ensure our digital products are robust secure and accessible.

Key responsibilities include:

Design develop and implement high-quality front-end solutions using agile practices and defined frameworks.
Build responsive and scalable user interfaces ensuring alignment with overall design and strategic objectives.
Promote automation controls for development source control release and support activities.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions that meet business needs and enhance user experience.
Monitor solution health troubleshoot issues and drive improvements in application stability and performance.

About You

You are an experienced front-end developer with a passion for creating intuitive visually appealing and accessible web applications. You thrive in agile environments bring strong technical skills in React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript and have a strategic mindset for solving complex problems. Your communication skills enable you to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and youre committed to continuous learning and improvement.

To be successful you will have:

Extensive experience working with React or similar frameworks and proficiency in UI development with modern JavaScript (ES6) and TypeScript.
Skilled in HTML and CSS frameworks such as Tailwind or CSS-in-JS with a strong command of UI/UX design and design systems.
Strong working experience with Azure services for frontend deployment and scalability.
Hands-on knowledge of performance optimization security and accessibility best practices.
Experience with front end testing frameworks (Jest React Testing Library Playwright) consuming REST APIs.
Prior working experience with google maps or similar mapping solutions in a web set up is highly desirable but not mandatory.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor Degree of Computer Science Software Engineering Information Technology or demonstrated capability through past employment experience and/or relevant qualifications.

Why Essential Energy

Essential Energy provides employees with a broad range of employee benefits through our corporate partnerships with organisations such as Qantas Optus NIB and Mildura Health Fund. You will also gain access to our Health and Wellbeing programs including fitness passport. Visit our employee benefits page for more information.

We are proud to be recognised as aWORK180 Endorsed Employer for All Women.

An energy network doesnt just keep the lights on its a living network that needs to adapt to new and emerging energy generation technologies while still meeting the energy needs of customers.

It requires innovation commitment and collaboration to bring people together to solve the energy delivery challenges of the modern world.

Your potential will be realised and youll feel a real sense of purpose and satisfaction knowing you have a pivot role to play in delivering the energy of the future to the people who need it today.

For further information please contact Ganesh Thiagarajan Technical Solutions Manager on.

Applications close on Sunday 16 November 2025 at 11:55pm.

Passionate people. Global thinking. Regional heart.
Building a better energy future.

Essential Energy is committed to building a culturally diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourages applicants to apply regardless of gender age ethnicity sexual orientation or disability.
As an organisation our aim is to champion inclusivity in the workplace and celebrate the difference in all our employees.
At Essential Energy we are committed to supporting adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process as well as during employment. We actively support and encourage people with disability to apply to Essential Energy (including alternate formats of application forms or alternate ways for accessibility). To discuss adjustment requirements please contact or call us on

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