Front-End Engineer

About us

Acting to combat climate change is one of the world's most pressing challenges. Climate Friendly was founded in 2003 as a profit-for-purpose business. Our growing team is passionate about active land management, and we are focused on finding economically viable solutions to maximise our impact on climate change.

We are one of Australia's largest and most experienced carbon farming project developers. This includes more than 160 projects with farmers, plantation managers, agribusiness, and Indigenous groups on carbon farming projects.

Climate Friendly has delivered over 20Mt in carbon abatement as at the end of 2020. Our immediate mission is to establish partnerships, by 2025, that will store or reduce 150Mt of CO2-e, while repairing nature and supporting reconciliation. Join our team and you will be helping to build A productive, sustainable land sector that contributes to a zero net emissions & nature positive Australia by 2050

We have a genuinely friendly and supportive culture where everyone has a voice and opportunity to help shape our future and to fulfil our purpose.

The role

As Front-End Engineer you will lead the design and development of user-facing components and scalable design systems that deliver a consistent, accessible, and modern user experience across Climate Friendly's digital platforms.

This role plays a critical part in shaping how users interact with Climate Friendly's technology by ensuring performance, accessibility, and reliability are embedded into every product. Working closely with product managers, designers, and developers, the role translates UX requirements into high-quality technical solutions, mentors mid-level engineers, and contributes to front-end architecture, design standards, and agile delivery practices.

By combining technical expertise with a user-centred approach, the Senior Front-End Engineer helps enable Climate Friendly's mission through intuitive and impactful digital tools.

The role can be based anywhere in Australia, with flexibility to work fully remotely or in a hybrid capacity from home and one of our office locations.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Building, testing, and maintaining reusable UI components and scalable design systems to ensure consistent look, feel, and functionality across applications.
• Working closely with product managers and backend developers to ensure smooth integration of APIs, data flows, and user interface elements.
• Translating user interface and user experience requirements into technical solutions by coding features, layouts, and interactions using React and related front-end frameworks.
• Writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code, following established coding standards and best practices.
• Ensuring applications are responsive, accessible, and performant across devices and browsers by running audits, debugging issues, and applying optimisations.
• Providing mentorship and technical guidance to mid-level engineers by pairing on tasks, reviewing their code, and helping them troubleshoot challenges.
• Reviewing code written by other developers, giving constructive feedback, and ensuring quality and consistency across the codebase.
• Participating in regular team meetings and planning sessions, providing technical input and updates on progress, risks, or blockers.
• Monitoring and resolving front-end bugs, issues, and technical debt, ensuring timely fixes and stable releases.
• Documenting components, standards, and front-end guidelines for internal use to support knowledge sharing and long-term scalability.
• Staying up to date with emerging front-end technologies, frameworks, and accessibility standards, and proposing improvements for adoption where valuable.
• Supporting the rollout of new systems, features, and updates, including contributing to release notes, training material, or technical demos where required.

This position is being offered as a 12-month fixed term contract in the first instance, with the possibility of extension or permanency subject to business needs and performance.

About you

Essential

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional experience in front-end software engineering.
• Expertise in React, Retool, and modern UI frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of accessibility standards, responsive design, and performance optimisation.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining design systems and reusable UI component libraries.
• Proven ability to mentor and support mid-level engineers, fostering capability growth and continuous improvement.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and collaboration skills within agile delivery environments.

Desirable

• Experience with TypeScript, CSS-in-JS, or component libraries (e.g., Material UI, Chakra UI).
• Familiarity with design tools such as Figma or Adobe XD.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks for front-end applications.
• Exposure to DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines for front-end deployment.
• Interest in sustainability and contributing to climate-positive technology solutions.

Climate Friendly encourages people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from different cultural backgrounds and people with disabilities.

Why join our team?

Our goal is to be seen as an organisation that supports wholeness, lifestyle and wellbeing whilst rewarding individual and collective performance. In addition to competitive salary and transparent career progression opportunities, our benefits include:

• Work with purpose, contributing to a productive, sustainable land sector that contributes to a zero net emissions and nature positive Australia by 2050
• A fully hybrid workplace - work to your own rhythm and balance connection and productivity
• A supportive and inclusive environment that promotes diversity
• 2 all staff events a year to connect with your friends and colleagues
• Christmas holiday - 3 days of additional leave each year
• Floating public holidays
• Gender neutral paid parental leave
• 2 days each year for training / development / study leave
• Home office setup and refresh allowance
• Company performance bonus and shared equity