Senior React Developer - Datascape

Our Why

Datacom works with organisations and communities across New Zealand and Australia to make a meaningful difference in people’s lives, helping organisations use technology to innovate, grow and deliver better outcomes.

Datascape is the newest and fastest growing product in the Local Government sector. We work with councils across Australia and New Zealand, providing a modern platform that supports day to day operations and enables stronger community engagement with the communities they serve.

About the role (your why)

This is an opportunity to contribute to how councils engage their staff and serve their communities, using intelligent, AI‑enabled products to redefine everyday work. As a senior React developer in the Datascape platform team, you will have a key role in building the user interface for the core “engine” of the product – ensuring the foundations are sound for our rapid growth. You’ll help implement a new design system into the core of the product, ensuring the user experience is modern, fit for purpose, and compliant.

You will be part of the experienced, talented Datascape platform team, based in Auckland or Tauranga. We like to bring people together in person when we can, but we are mindful of the benefits of working from home for work/life balance.

What you’ll do

You will be part of a team owning the design and development of the technical platform for Datascape. The platform is agnostic of particular customers and jurisdictions, but provides the foundations or engine that allows other Datascape teams and customers to configure solutions. The platform team is responsible for evaluating, selecting, and standardizing AI technologies, frameworks, and platforms and assisting the uptake of these across the wider Datascape team.

You will create UI components and UX patterns, implement a brand-new design system, implement best practices for a modern user interface; and collaborate with designers, product owners and other technical leads to implement modern performant designs.

You will design and implement UI components that support AI workloads; establish and champion engineering standards for AI quality, testing, security, and observability, and support automated testing.

What you’ll bring

You are an experienced front end developer who has built complex, enterprise‑scale products and knows how to deliver performant, resilient, high-quality systems at scale. You’ve likely built and evolved products in regulated or mission‑critical environments, and are experienced with security, accessibility, scalability and performance requirements.

You will be experienced working with both designers and back-end developers and architects, have an eye for aesthetics, and be familiar with modern design and UX patterns and practices including responsive design and WCAG compliance.

You bring a strong grasp of modern AI assisted product development — through discovery, design, build, operations, and continuous improvement. You know how to make technical trade‑offs, delivering what’s needed while managing technical debt.

Required experience:

• 5+ years’ experience in a senior developer role
• Strong experience with React, HTML, CSS, .NET, C#.
• Strong experience with design systems, Figma, working with designers.
• Familiarity with Entity Framework, SQL Server, Azure.
• Experience with agentic AI development practices.
• Commitment to quality, customer satisfaction and outcomes.

Nice to have:

• Experience building SaaS products with a leading product vendor.
• Experience in the Local Government sector, or sectors with similar financial and regulatory requirements.
• Experience with web components and Lit.
• Experience with automated testing techniques (Playwright).
• Experience with cyber-security best practice, responsible AI.

Why join us here at Datacom?

Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest Information Technology companies.

It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us. We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses — to name a few.

You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect, and bring your true self to work.

We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.