Principal Frontend Engineer

Lookahead; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model in Sydney

Permanent role with principal level

Small team with quick impact

AI tooling guidance and quality focus

Job summary

Lookahead is building planning and analytics software used by global apparel and retail brands. We seek a frontend architect to own the React/Redux stack and guide architecture as we scale.

You will work directly with product and design, own near-term rewrites, and ensure quality while shipping code. Hybrid work in Sydney after onboarding, permanent principal ownership in a tight-knit team.

Qualifications

• Ownership of client-side state and rendering architecture at data density.
• 5+ years React and TypeScript, commercial Redux, and strong architecture opinions.
• Still writing production code and maintaining hands-on skills.
• Set and enforce standards across a peer group with reviews and delivery practices.
• Collaborate directly with product and design rather than taking tickets.

Responsibilities

• Own the React/Redux codebase and guide frontend architecture for real-time, dense datasets.
• Lead code reviews, testing standards, and delivery practices across the frontend team.
• Collaborate directly with product and design to shape the product roadmap.
• Near-term work includes folding a standalone product back into the main app and scaling forecasting.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Redux

Frontend architecture

Data-dense UIs

Job description

Take frontend architecture off the CTO and own it, on a product where real time collaboration meets very large datasets.

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