Principal Frontend Engineer

Lookahead; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid in Sydney

Permanent role with principal level

Small team, quick impact

AI tooling usage with quality focus

Tight-knit engineering culture

Job summary

Lookahead is hiring a frontend engineering leader to own the React and Redux codebase within a small, high-skill team. You will still write production code while shaping the frontend direction, including folding a standalone product into the main app and rebuilding the forecasting engine for scale.

You will collaborate directly with product and design, set coding standards, and drive delivery practices. Sydney-based with 50/50 hybrid work after onboarding.

Qualifications

• 5+ years React and TypeScript experience in production.
• Proven track record owning client-side state at high data density.
• Desire to keep writing production code and influence architecture.
• Experience setting team standards, reviews, and delivery practices.
• Sydney-based with full working rights.

Responsibilities

• Own direction for the React and Redux codebase and shipping code.
• Fold standalone product back into main app and rebuild forecasting engine for scale.
• Collaborate with product and design to drive frontend decisions.
• Set and enforce frontend standards across peers (code reviews, testing, delivery).
• Work directly with product and design rather than taking tickets.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Frontend architecture

Redux

Code reviews

Tools

Redux

Git

Job description

The role

This company builds planning and analytics software used by global apparel and retail brands to decide what they make, buy and range each season. Engineering is seven people, five of them on the frontend and all mid to senior. There is no frontend technical leadership today, so the CTO is carrying it. You would own direction for the React and Redux codebase while still shipping code. Near term work includes folding a standalone product back into the main app and rebuilding the forecasting engine so it scales.

About you

• You have owned client side state and rendering architecture at data density: collaborative editing, virtualised grids, or datasets in the hundreds of thousands of rows
• 5+ years React and TypeScript, commercial Redux, and real opinions about store architecture
• Still writing production code, and you want to keep it that way
• You have set standards across a team of peers, code review, testing or delivery practice, and made them stick
• You work directly with product and design rather than taking tickets
• Sydney based with full working rights

The offer

• 50/50 hybrid working in Sydney after initial onboarding
• Permanent, with technical ownership at principal level.
• A team small enough that your decisions show up in the product quickly
• AI tooling is used across the team, with clear rules, and never at the expense of quality
• Tight‑knit engineering group that values thoughtful engineering, learning and collaboration