Senior Front End Engineer

A well-established Australian digital marketplace is rebuilding and modernising its core platform after a major business transformation. This is a high-ownership role where you will shape front-end standards, help scale a growing team, and deliver fast, reliable user experiences used by a large, national audience.

The role

• Own and evolve a customer-facing web application in React, focusing on performance and scalability
• Help optimise real-time user experiences for speed and resilience under high traffic.
• Contribute to front-end architecture decisions as legacy patterns are replaced and the platform is consolidated.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering peers, and mentor others on front-end best practices.

About you

• Strong commercial experience building production web apps with React
• A pragmatic mindset: you know when to iterate vs when to invest in longer-term foundations.
• Experience in mentoring other engineers.
• Comfortable in a changing environment with a lot of autonomy and ambiguity.

The offer

• High visibility role during a major platform modernisation.
• Real influence over front-end direction, standards, and ways of working.
• Hybrid working (typically 2 days in-office), with flexibility for the right person.

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I'm a technical recruiter who comes from a technical background, and I enjoy being part of the tech community. If you’re a developer, I’d love to hear from you, even if you’re not sure if this role is quite right. Most of our jobs at Lookahead aren’t advertised so we may have another role that’s a fit.

Fiona Chan
fiona@lookahead.com.au | www.lookahead.com.au