Senior Software Engineer (Frontend)

• Guide the future of our product
• Shape the user experience and set new standards in the industry
• Flexible, Hybrid Sydney-based role
  
  

About LEAP Dev

LEAP Dev is the “Software House” powering LEAP Legal Software, the leading provider of Legal Practice Productivity Solutions in the world. We’re part of ATI Global – one of the largest international LegalTech companies. For more than 30 years, our curiosity and commitment to continual improvement has kept us reimagining productivity tools for lawyers and their staff to support our guiding purpose, to ‘Help lawyers who help people’. The market leading software we develop and support is used by more than 100,000 lawyers and their staff in small and medium sized law firms.

Working alongside our team of passionate high achievers, you’ll join a fast-growing technology business where things seldom stay the same for long. With more than 1000 smart, caring and ambitious ‘LEAPsters’ working together across Australia, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Poland and New Zealand, you’ll find yourself in good company here.

Meet the Innovations team

Doing what it says on the tin, the innovations team is the team pushing new ideas and innovations for LEAP Dev's high priority projects. This team of experienced Developers are critical to ensure our ongoing success and enable us to live up to our reputation as a market leader in Legal Technology. They're a team of proactive, creative thinkers who take pride in being technologically adaptable, skilled at troubleshooting, and using their skills to facilitate great user experiences.

What You'll Do

This team is expanding and we're now looking for a Frontend Engineer to work on two of our products. This frontend work will be a blend of bug fixes/maintaining the product, and pushing new ideas and innovations. Your day to day might look like this:

• Design and develop high-quality, responsive UI using React, ensuring a seamless and engaging user experience.
• Lead the architecture of front-end solutions, optimizing code for performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Work closely with UX designers and back-end developers.
• Take ownership of front-end projects, driving the technical direction and setting coding standards.
• Participate in agile ceremonies such as stand-ups, sprint planning and retrospectives.
  
  

What you'll bring

Skills

You are a focused motivated and hard-working developer who wants to join a fantastic growing team at a critical time and learn on the job to expand your skills. Your technical skillset might look like this:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Software Development
• A deep understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, along with experience in React or other modern frameworks.
• A knack for UI/UX design principles and a passion for creating visually appealing and user-friendly interfaces.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure), CI/CD pipelines and containerization (Docker).
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative spirit, ready to work closely with back-end developers, designers and other stakeholders.
• Proven track record in front-end development, and passion about keeping up with the latest trends and best practices.
  
  

LEAP is an inclusive, people-first company committed to breaking down institutional barriers that keep people from reaching their potential. If you meet some, but not all of the requirements above, we encourage you to still submit your application.

What You'll Get

• Our hybrid work environment offers the best of both worlds, whether you prefer to be in the office or work from home you have the flexibility to work however suits you and your team.
• As a LEAP Dev employee, you will receive a competitive salary, paid learning and development opportunities, free platinum gym membership, generous parental leave benefits, an additional paid wellbeing day, social events and MUCH MORE!
• We build and develop a market leading, “Legal Tech” product, with offices in Australia, New Zealand, United States, Canada, United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
• We are committed to innovation and global expansion of our products and are constantly utilising new technologies to better our client experience.
• We encourage our employees to have a voice and to collaborate with each other to work on technical solutions, of course we have company visions and goals, but we want you to help us achieve these!
• We will invest our time and money in you to help develop your career. Open discussions and reviews will help us understand your career aspirations, maybe it’s a new AWS certification you are after or an internal move to a new area, we will support you and your goals