About the job
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Hybrid)
Contract: Permanent
Start: Immediate / ASAP preferred
Join Whiteshield, a pioneering company where artificial intelligence meets economic expertise to address real-world policy challenges. Our AI Economics Unit is dedicated to transforming complex datasets into actionable insights that influence governmental and business policies, resource management, and strategic growth planning.
As a Front-End Developer in our AI Economics Unit, you will play a pivotal role in creating modern, high-performance user experiences for data-centric policy platforms. You will be responsible for implementing analytical dashboards, decision-making tools, and workflow-driven interfaces, working closely with product managers, designers, economists, and backend engineers to convert intricate policy concepts into intuitive front-end solutions.
Your responsibilities will include developing robust integrations with API-driven backends, ensuring effective data-binding patterns, creating resilient asynchronous user experiences, and maintaining strong alignment with teams providing OpenAPI/Swagger documentation. You will also contribute to innovative chat-enabled and AI-assisted product experiences, enhancing user engagement through conversational interfaces that facilitate exploration and guided workflows based on structured policy data.
Overview:
* Front end: Next.js, React, TypeScript, modern CSS (TailwindCSS or equivalent)
* Backend integration: Python APIs (FastAPI) documented via Swagger/OpenAPI
* Data layer: PostgreSQL, SQL-based analytics surfaces
* DevOps: Docker-first development, Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines
* Nice-to-have: Mapbox/MapLibre for geospatial UX, .NET/C# exposure for middleware contexts
Typical initiatives include:
* Interactive dashboards and decision platforms for ministries and public entities
* Data-driven interfaces built on administrative and alternative data sources
* Policy indices, forecasting models, and scenario simulators
* AI-enabled workflows, including LLM-assisted insights, with strong governance and security
What you will do:
* Build high-quality front ends using Next.js and React, delivering responsive, accessible, and maintainable UI components
* Implement modern React patterns including hooks, composable components, and predictable state management
* Translate design specifications into pixel-perfect, production-ready UI with attention to spacing, typography, and interaction design
* Integrate front-end applications with backend services through well-structured API calls.

