Senior Frontend Developer

VALE Partners; City of Brisbane; Remote; AUD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Australian technology recruitment firm is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to join a small, high-trust team in Brisbane. The role involves building and maintaining frontend features in React and TypeScript, leading architectural strategies, and mentoring fellow engineers. Applicants should have strong experience in improving frontend codebases and collaborating effectively with designers on usability. This position allows you to influence technical decisions in a stable, remote-friendly environment that values quality coding practices.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with React and TypeScript in production environments.
• Track record of improving frontend codebases meaningfully.
• Experience making and communicating architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain frontend features in React and TypeScript.
• Lead the consolidation of a mixed frontend stack toward a consistent approach.
• Improve frontend tooling and development workflows.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Frontend tooling

API design

Accessibility

User experience

Job description

VALE Partners have been engaged by an established, Australian-owned technology company to find a Senior Frontend Engineer to help shape and strengthen their client-side architecture.

This is a product company with genuine scale, over two decades of operational history, and a small, tight-knit engineering team that takes its craft seriously. For the right person, this is an opportunity to have real technical influence without the noise of a large organisation

Role Overview

• Build and maintain frontend features in React and TypeScript, working closely with a UX designer to translate thoughtful designs into clean, well-structured components that hold up over time
• Lead the consolidation of a mixed frontend stack toward a consistent, modern approach using React and Next.js, shaping the strategy, not just executing it
• Improve frontend tooling, build processes and development workflows, and help define the standards and patterns that the broader engineering team will follow
• Mentor other engineers and collaborate with the team on API design and data flows, acting as a technical anchor for frontend quality and decision-making across the platform

What You'll Ideally Have

• Strong experience with React and TypeScript in production environments, with a solid understanding of modern frontend tooling, build systems and the full frontend lifecycle from development through to deployment
• A track record of improving frontend codebases in a meaningful way, not just shipping features, but leaving things more maintainable than you found them
• Experience making and communicating architectural decisions, ideally including frontend technology migrations or consolidation work
• An awareness of performance, accessibility and user experience considerations, and the ability to collaborate effectively with designers to bring those values into the work

This Role Will Interest You If

• You want to work in a small, high-trust team where your technical opinions carry real weight and the work you do is genuinely visible
• You're looking for a primarily remote role with a stable, long-standing Australian business behind it, the kind of place that isn't going anywhere, and that values thoughtful engineering over chasing trends
• You enjoy the challenge of working with an evolving codebase, not a greenfield rewrite, but a considered, pragmatic modernisation of a platform that real people use every day
• You care about frontend craft: clean component design, maintainable architecture and a culture that takes quality seriously without being precious about it

If you'd like to apply for this role but are unsure about your suitability - please reach out!

With over 25 years of combined experience recruiting for the QLD technology market, VALE Partners love to help you see that you are suitable or assist you in any other way we can.