Staff Front End Engineer

Job Title:
Staff Front End Engineer

Experience Required:
10-12 yrs of product development experience

Skills : 7+yrs working experience with Reactjs

Location: North Melbourne

Work from Office – 4 days per week

At Oolio, we're reimagining what hospitality software can do. From powering mission-critical payments to enabling seamless order flows across kiosks, QR, POS, and beyond—we're building the operating system for modern hospitality.

We're looking for a
Staff Engineer (Frontend)
to help drive technical direction, own critical front-end systems, and partner with product and design to deliver high-quality, scalable experiences. You will set the bar for engineering excellence, lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers across squads, and champion world-class usability, performance, and reliability across our front-end stack.

This is a
hands-on, high-impact leadership role
— shaping our front-end platform, accelerating developer experience, and guiding our vision for modern, AI-powered product interfaces.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Execution

• Lead architecture and delivery of complex, high-impact front-end initiatives and shared UI systems.
• Design and evolve scalable, modular front-end architectures and codebases across multiple product surfaces.
• Own core front-end infrastructure, micro-frontend patterns, and shared component libraries.
• Build high-performing, secure, accessible, and responsive interfaces with exceptional UX quality.
• Ensure high coverage with automated testing, type-safe systems, and robust release pipelines.

Platform & Developer Experience

• Drive front-end platform improvements including tooling, performance, observability, and CI/CD workflows.
• Establish coding standards, documentation practices, and frontend governance models.
• Champion fast, reliable, AI-assisted developer workflows and efficient local dev environments.

Cross-Functional Influence

• Collaborate deeply with Product, Design, and Engineering leads to define the frontend roadmap.
• Lead technical discovery, RFCs, architectural reviews, and cross-team platform initiatives.
• Drive accessibility, internationalisation, performance, and usability best practices.

Mentorship & Culture

• Provide mentorship and technical coaching to engineers across squads.
• Champion engineering quality, customer empathy, and continuous improvement.
• Lead by example — solving hard problems, unblocking teams, and elevating engineering standards.

What You Bring

• 10-12 years of overall product development experience only
• 7+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining large-scale SaaS front ends using React, Typescript, and modern web technologies
  . Familiarity with Remix, , Storybook, and
  design systems is a bonus
• You bring knowledge of web application architecture, performance optimisation, accessibility, and user-centric design. You're comfortable "owning" the quality and standard of solutions delivered
• Experience in
  POS, payments, or mission-critical SaaS products
• Experience with
  micro-frontends, edge delivery, secure browser apps, offline-capable systems
• You've contributed to shaping internal engineering practices or frameworks, led significant technical initiatives, and coached peers or juniors to higher quality and autonomy
• Strong experience with
  CI/CD, automated testing, telemetry, and production monitoring
  of front-end systems.
• Strong product mindset — balancing shipping velocity with long-term quality and maintainability.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing cross-team technical direction.

Why Oolio?

• Work on mission-critical systems powering thousands of hospitality businesses.
• Join a team that values engineering excellence, autonomy, and continuous learning.
• Competitive salary, flexible work, and the chance to have real impact at scale
• Take part in our annual Hackathons, driving innovation and creativity.
• Access a yearly learning & development budget to invest in your growth.