Key Frontend Engineer

Key Frontend Engineer

Our team is seeking a highly experienced frontend engineer with deep expertise in Angular and React to help shape the direction of our frontend architecture, tooling, and practices.

This role involves hands-on development, frontend strategy and standards, technical leadership, and design collaboration.

The ideal candidate will have experience working on large-scale frontend applications, a strong understanding of frontend security principles, and a passion for shipping high-quality user-friendly experiences.

As a senior technical expert, you will collaborate with design and engineering leaders to elevate the frontend craft across multiple squads.

You will drive cross-cutting frontend initiatives, set coding standards, lead strategic discussions, and champion frontend quality across the board.

This is an opportunity for someone who loves building robust web applications, has strong Angular and React experience, and wants to make a lasting impact on our frontend architecture.

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on development: Write, review, and maintain high-quality frontend code primarily in Angular and React.
• Frontend strategy & standards: Define and advocate for coding best practices, architecture guidelines, testing strategies, and maintainability principles.
• Technical leadership: Be a thought leader across squads, influencing design and implementation decisions, particularly in frontend-heavy initiatives.
• Design collaboration: Work closely with the Head of Design to align implementation with design vision and plan cross-team frontend efforts.
• Storybook & UI consistency: Maintain and evolve our component libraries using tools like Storybook, ensuring reusability, accessibility, and design fidelity.
• Security champion: Advocate security and privacy best practices across frontend applications, from secure handling of sensitive data to safe usage of third-party dependencies.
• Tech mentorship: Guide engineers through informal mentoring, code reviews, and pairing in writing secure, maintainable, and well-tested frontend codebase.
• Elevate engineering thinking through high-quality feedback and modelling best practices.
• Department-wide engagement: Present technical decisions, demos, or initiatives to the broader engineering department and advocate for frontend improvements company-wide.
• Proactive improvement: Identify and drive improvements to tooling, architecture, and developer experience before being asked.
• Polyglot mindset: Comfortably pick up and evaluate new tools, libraries, or frameworks where appropriate.

Requirements:

• Deep expertise in Angular and React.
• Experience working on large-scale frontend applications.
• Strong understanding of frontend security principles.
• Passion for shipping high-quality user-friendly experiences.
• Ability to influence design and implementation decisions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguous requirements and creating clarity for others.

Benefits:

• Keep Active – All employees get a fitness membership.
• Daily Fuel – Barista-made coffee, breakfast, snacks, lunches, and drinks on us.
• Phone Credits – We pay you $50 per month to put towards your plans.
• Wellness Days – Receive an additional day off each month.
• Monthly Massages – We offer monthly in-house massages to soothe those sore spots and tight knots.
• Bonus Shares – We offer our dedicated employees' performance-based bonuses.
• Fun Activities – We love escaping the workplace to do fun stuff.
• Legal Services – Our employees get access to free legal services.

Our Culture:

We value innovation, growth, and excellence. We believe that small efforts or improvements in any aspect of our work collectively lead to significant success.

Our commitment to going that one step further sets us apart, as we believe that reliable and trusted services are key to our clients' success.

We provide our people with challenges and opportunities, supporting them to live their best lives. We are committed to you and offer a fantastic culture with open communication and rewards and recognition that include probation celebrations, all-staff birthday and service anniversary celebrations.