Melbourne Hybrid Frontend Engineer (React/Next.js)

Shockbyte; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; GBP 63,000 - 89,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work

Flexible Working Hours

Career Growth

Professional Development Budget

Home Office / Coworking Stipend

Virtual Team Events

Company Merch Packs

Travel Opportunities

Esports & Gaming Events

Job summary

Shockbyte is seeking an experienced Front-end Engineer to own the customer journey across our Next.js-based stack. You will collaborate with marketing, CRO and a senior full‑stack engineer to deliver fast, accessible pages and a robust checkout experience.

You will work in a hybrid Melbourne office, 2–3 days per week, building components, integrating with WHMCS and Stripe, and shipping campaigns from design to production. Solid React/Next.js, TypeScript and AI tooling are essential.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years building and shipping production web applications.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve the customer journey from first visit through to completed checkout, with conversion as the measure of success
• Develop the front end of our self-built checkout, integrating with WHMCS for order creation and Stripe for payments
• Ship campaign and landing pages from Figma to production, on marketing's timelines
• Build and maintain components in our shared design system, used across all four of our apps
• Work with our headless CMS so the marketing team can move without waiting on you
• Build and maintain the tracking and tag management our CRO specialist relies on, implement the experiments they design, and roll winning variants permanently into the site
• Keep the site fast, accessible and technically sound for search, as organic is one of our biggest acquisition channels
• Support our growing set of locales and currencies
• Triage and fix front-end issues in production, including escalations from our support team
• Help retire the last of our legacy Nuxt code as we consolidate on Next.js
• Work with AI development tooling as a core part of how you ship, and help us get better at using it as a team

Skills

React

Next.js (App Router)

TypeScript

Tailwind CSS

Monorepo

API integration

Google Tag Manager

GA4

Web performance

Semantic HTML

Accessibility

SEO fundamentals

AI tooling

Written communication

Job description

Shockbyte is seeking an experienced Front-end Engineer to own the customer journey across our Next.js-based stack. You will collaborate with marketing, CRO and a senior full‑stack engineer to deliver fast, accessible pages and a robust checkout experience.

You will work in a hybrid Melbourne office, 2–3 days per week, building components, integrating with WHMCS and Stripe, and shipping campaigns from design to production. Solid React/Next.js, TypeScript and AI tooling are essential.