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Lead Software Engineer – React

Challenger Limited
New South Wales, AUS
Full-time
Lead
Onsite
Discovered 1 weeks ago

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Key Responsibilities

  • Architecture & Standards
  • Lead the design and ongoing evolution of Challenger's React portal architecture, frameworks and engineering standards
  • Own the technical integrity of the React platform as new capabilities are introduced, partnering with Solution Architects, Designers and delivery teams on scalable, secure, maintainable solutions
  • Shape decisions on React, micro-frontend architecture, API integration, authentication and platform scalability
  • Evaluate new technologies and engineering approaches to improve quality, performance and developer productivity
  • Hands-On Delivery & Quality
  • Design and maintain high-quality React applications and reusable front-end components, staying actively involved in coding, code reviews and troubleshooting
  • Review and validate code quality across development teams, including AI-assisted development outputs, ensuring adherence to engineering standards
  • Establish and maintain shared component libraries and development patterns that enable scalable delivery across multiple portal experiences
  • Integrate front-end applications with enterprise APIs and Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) patterns, working with identity, security and backend teams to deliver seamless customer experiences
  • Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and quality controls — testing, code review, security and release management that support secure, automated, reliable delivery
  • Identify and resolve performance, scalability, accessibility and maintainability issues, and support observability and operational readiness across portal environments
  • Partnership & Influence
  • Provide technical leadership and informed challenge to engineering teams and delivery partners, including Accenture, acting as a credible counterpart in design and delivery discussions
  • Communicate technical trade-offs clearly to Product Owners and non-technical stakeholders, translating architectural decisions into business impact
  • Lead delivery through influence rather than direct reports — setting direction and standards that Accenture and internal teams build against
  • Help establish Challenger's internal capability and technical ownership within the portal programme as it matures
  • The Team
  • This role reports to the Product Owner, Digital, and forms part of the Digital team and Customer Technology Uplift (CTU) programme. You'll work closely with Product Owners, Solution Architects, UX/UI Designers, Technology Delivery Leads, Integration teams and Security specialists, and partner extensively with our technology partner's engineering teams - operating as an embedded technical lead alongside on and offshore delivery resources.
  • While the role initially has no direct reports, it is expected to take on responsibility for a developer as the internal React capability grows.
  • About You
  • Significant proven hands-on experience designing, building and supporting enterprise-scale greenfield developments of React platforms, establishing the foundational architecture, application framework and reusable component libraries
  • Deep expertise in modern React architecture, including component composition, custom hooks and local, shared and server-state management, with the ability to select and govern patterns that support scalability, maintainability and performance
  • Experience establishing front-end frameworks, engineering standards, reusable component libraries and development guardrails
  • Experience integrating front-end applications with enterprise APIs and Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) architecture patterns
  • Exposure to AI-assisted software development tools and experience governing or validating AI-generated code
  • Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and automated software delivery processes
  • Experience conducting code reviews and maintaining engineering quality standards
  • Demonstrated ability to balance hands-on development with technical leadership - influencing technical decisions and providing informed challenge to engineering teams, delivery partners or systems integrators
  • Experience delivering customer, adviser or self-service digital portal solutions
  • Experience working within large-scale digital transformation or platform modernisation programmes
  • Tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience
  • Why Join Challenger? You'll join Australia's leading investment management firm - a business with a clear vision to deliver customers financial security for a better retirement. As Challenger's React subject matter expert, you'll set the technical foundations for a brand-new digital capability, with the scope to shape architecture, standards and delivery practices from day one.
  • For an engineer seeking greater strategic influence, genuine greenfield ownership and the chance to build something that scales, this is a rare opportunity to leave a lasting technical footprint. We provide access to a range of exclusive employee benefits that will support you both personally and professionally and a hybrid work environment including.
  • Discretionary bonus scheme
  • Employee share plan
  • Eighteen weeks paid leave for all new parents
  • Flexibility on when, and how, parental leave is taken
  • Challenger Day – one extra day off every year in recognition of the effort our people make
  • Subsidised on-site café and fantastic central location a stone's throw from Martin Place Metro
  • Additional support leave (fertility treatment leave, gender affirmation leave)
  • Access to Fitness Passport
  • #LI-KM1
  • #LI-Challenger #LI-Hybrid
  • Challenger's employee value proposition guides how we work: Grow and realise your potential, supporting each other, stronger together and making things happen. Our culture encourages curiosity, considered thinking and meaningful contribution, with opportunities to build a broad and rewarding career.
  • We are committed to fostering a safe, inclusive and respectful workplace where people of all backgrounds, identities and ways of thinking can thrive, and promoting flexible working to support work-life balance.
  • Challenger is proud to be a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality, a Family Friendly Workplace and recognised as a Bronze Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI), the national benchmark for LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion.
  • Job type:
  • Permanent
  • Posting Close Date:
  • 16/10/2026
  • Why Join Challenger?
  • You'll join Australia's leading investment management firm - a business with a clear vision to deliver customers financial security for a better retirement. As Challenger's React subject matter expert, you'll set the technical foundations for a brand-new digital capability, with the scope to shape architecture, standards and delivery practices from day one.
  • For an engineer seeking greater strategic influence, genuine greenfield ownership and the chance to build something that scales, this is a rare opportunity to leave a lasting technical footprint.
  • We provide access to a range of exclusive employee benefits that will support you both personally and professionally and a hybrid work environment including.
  • #LI-Challenger
  • #LI-Hybrid

Qualifications

  • Significant proven hands-on experience designing, building and supporting enterprise-scale greenfield developments of React platforms, establishing the foundational architecture, application framework and reusable component libraries
  • Deep expertise in modern React architecture, including component composition, custom hooks and local, shared and server-state management, with the ability to select and govern patterns that support scalability, maintainability and performance
  • Experience establishing front-end frameworks, engineering standards, reusable component libraries and development guardrails
  • Experience integrating front-end applications with enterprise APIs and Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) architecture patterns
  • Exposure to AI-assisted software development tools and experience governing or validating AI-generated code
  • Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and automated software delivery processes
  • Experience conducting code reviews and maintaining engineering quality standards
  • Demonstrated ability to balance hands-on development with technical leadership - influencing technical decisions and providing informed challenge to engineering teams, delivery partners or systems integrators
  • Experience delivering customer, adviser or self-service digital portal solutions
  • Experience working within large-scale digital transformation or platform modernisation programmes
  • Tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience
  • Why Join Challenger?
  • You'll join Australia's leading investment management firm - a business with a clear vision to deliver customers financial security for a better retirement. As Challenger's React subject matter expert, you'll set the technical foundations for a brand-new digital capability, with the scope to shape architecture, standards and delivery practices from day one.
  • For an engineer seeking greater strategic influence, genuine greenfield ownership and the chance to build something that scales, this is a rare opportunity to leave a lasting technical footprint.
  • We provide access to a range of exclusive employee benefits that will support you both personally and professionally and a hybrid work environment including.
  • Employee share plan
  • Eighteen weeks paid leave for all new parents
  • Flexibility on when, and how, parental leave is taken
  • Challenger Day – one extra day off every year in recognition of the effort our people make
  • Subsidised on-site café and fantastic central location a stone's throw from Martin Place Metro
  • Additional support leave (fertility treatment leave, gender affirmation leave)
  • Access to Fitness Passport
  • Challenger's employee value proposition guides how we work: Grow and realise your potential, supporting each other, stronger together and making things happen. Our culture encourages curiosity, considered thinking and meaningful contribution, with opportunities to build a broad and rewarding career.
  • We are committed to fostering a safe, inclusive and respectful workplace where people of all backgrounds, identities and ways of thinking can thrive, and promoting flexible working to support work-life balance.
  • Challenger is proud to be a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality, a Family Friendly Workplace and recognised as a Bronze Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI), the national benchmark for LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion.
  • Permanent
  • 16/10/2026

Preferred Qualifications

  • Discretionary bonus scheme

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