Senior Software Engineer

Posted: 10/10/2025

Closing Date: 08/11/2025

Job Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Manila

Job Category: Engineering,IT

Who we are…

Founded in 2002, ELMO Software has established itself as a leading provider of innovative HR technology solutions, proudly serving over 2,000 mid-sized organizations and more than one million end users across Australia, New Zealand and UK. Our comprehensive suite of ISO-certified solutions covers the entire employee lifecycle, empowering HR professionals to effectively manage their workforce and contribute to strategic decision-making.

At ELMO, our purpose is to unleash the impact of HR. Designed with flexibility and scalability in mind, ELMO's one-stop HR Information System (HRIS) adapts to your unique needs and workflows, ensuring seamless integration into your existing processes. Leveraging powerful technology, automation, and data analytics, ELMO Software equips organisations with the tools they need to drive efficiency and enhance employee engagement.

Join us and be part of a dynamic team dedicated to transforming HR practices through cutting-edge technology

Life & Culture...

At ELMO, you'll join an extraordinary team dedicated to making a significant impact. We cultivate an authentic, collaborative, and vibrant work environment where creativity thrives.

As an ELMOnian, you become part of an exceptional community that encourages personal and professional growth. Here, you'll be supported through challenges, inspired to push your boundaries, and celebrated for your contributions. Join us to not only advance your career but also to enjoy a fulfilling and enjoyable workplace experience

Some of our benefits include:

• Remote work setup
• Annual paid vacation leaves (accrual)
• Annual paid sick leaves (accrual)
• 10 Filipino Public Holidays (accrual if you had to work you can use it later on)
• HMO provided for you and 1 free dependent
• Group life insurance
• Quarterly meet ups
• Birthday leave and YOU day
• Mental Health/EAP programs
• Work peripheral

Our values:

• Reimagine What's Possible - We believe innovation is human at its core. By staying open, fearless, and adaptive, we continuously push boundaries - while keeping people at the heart of everything we do.
• Obsess over Customers – Everything we do is designed to positively impact our customers.
• Help Others Thrive - Be they colleagues, communities or customers, we champion ways to help others thrive.
• Be Fearlessly Optimistic - We bring unwavering positivity to any challenge, as we know it will drive meaningful change.

Please note: Our internal Talent Acquisition team has got this covered, we're not open to using an agency for this role.

About the Opportunity...

As a Senior Front-End Engineer, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of our frontend experience. You'll work closely with cross-functional product squads to rebuild and reimagine pages that go beyond expectations, contribute to the development of a modern frontend framework, and help evolve and refine ELMO's growing design system.

If you're passionate about clean UI, thoughtful design, and building tools that truly make an impact — we'd love to hear from you.

What You'll Do…

• Customer-centric, and considerate of the product and its intent for end users.
• Primarily working directly with product squads to accelerate their frontend development.
• Creating and improving components, foundations and patterns within ELMO's design system.
• Contributing to the development and maintenance of ELMO's frontend framework.
• Create champion code examples and serve as a mentor to other engineers.
• Supporting and mentoring teammates to overcome obstacles, resolve blockers, and complete tasks.
• Developing in compliance with accessibility (a11y) standards and ELMO's inclusivity, privacy and security policies and procedures.
• Drafting and maintaining comprehensive documentation on technical patterns and guidelines to empower product squads.
• Collaborating with the Design team to create user centric designs.
• Apply AI tools like GitHub Copilot/Cursor to enhance development work and productivity

What we would like to see you bring to the team...

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 3-5 years of experience as a software engineer in an agile/scrum environment.
• Strong understanding of React and React frameworks.
• Solid understanding of frontend principles; User-Centric Design, Responsive Design, Accessibility, Performance Optimization, Scalability and Maintainability.
• Advanced knowledge of Typescript and coding patterns.
• Experience utilising or developing Design Systems is desirable.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.

Apply now and be part of the team shaping the future of work at ELMO

ELMO Software Pty Ltd is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to join our team. We are also committed to advancing reconciliation at ELMOthrough ourReflect Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP).

At ELMO, we are passionate about empowering HR with responsible, secure and safe AI, aiming to be among the first in Australia and New Zealand to achieve ISO 42001:2023 certification. Handling sensitive employee data necessitates strict adherence to our ISO 27001:2022 Certified security policies, making data privacy and security paramount in every role