Senior Frontend Engineer

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20% discount on Luxury Holidays

Breakfast & lunch provided 5 days/week

Health & wellbeing programs

Annual Hackathons

Birthday leave half-day

Collaborative team culture

Job summary

Luxury Escapes, Sydney-based, seeks a Senior Frontend Engineer to advance our React/TypeScript frontend and enhance the customer journey across the platform.

You will collaborate with PMs and designers to rapidly iterate on features, run experiments, and optimize performance for millions of travellers. The role emphasizes AI-assisted tooling, code quality, and rapid delivery in a lean, fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Experience building large-scale React applications in production.
• Designing high-performance, responsive user interfaces and improving frontend reliability.
• Strong understanding of frontend architecture, including state management and scalable design.
• Experience writing automated tests and contributing to CI/CD workflows.
• Collaborating with product managers and designers to ship high-impact features.
• Familiarity integrating frontend with microservices and REST APIs.
• Comfort using AI-augmented development tools to accelerate delivery.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship high-quality frontend features in our React application to improve the customer journey and conversion.
• Work closely with Product Managers and Designers to rapidly iterate on features and improvements for the booking experience.
• Design and implement A/B tests and product experiments to accelerate learning.
• Use AI-augmented development tools to improve code quality and speed.
• Continuously improve frontend performance, accessibility, and reliability across the web platform.
• Collaborate with backend teams to integrate frontend with microservices and third-party systems.
• Contribute to engineering best practices, including automated testing and continuous delivery.
• Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews and pairing.

Skills

Large-scale React

Frontend performance

CI/CD

REST APIs

AI tools

Mentoring

Tools

React

TypeScript

Node.js

AWS

Job description

Be part of the team transforming global travel experiences.

Luxury Escapes is one of the world’s fastest-growing travel platforms, with more than 8 million members worldwide. Our technology powers a global travel marketplace where millions of travellers discover and book incredible holidays every year.

Our core web platform serves millions of users and processes millions of dollars in bookings every day, making engineering a central part of how we deliver exceptional travel experiences.

We’re growing rapidly and are looking for a SeniorFrontend Engineer to join our Engineering team, helping us continuously improve the customer journey and booking experience across the Luxury Escapes platform.

Working at Luxury Escapes
At Luxury Escapes, our mission is to delight our customers with incredible deals on the world’s best holidays. We’re a technology-driven company where engineers, product managers, and designers work closely together to build high-impact customer experiences.

Our engineering culture is fast-moving, low-bureaucracy, and very AI-forward. Our whole team is usingAI-augmented development tools and workflows to improve productivity, code quality, and product velocity.

Engineers here enjoy solving meaningful problems at scale alongside smart, ambitious teammates.

Luxury Escapes is an in-person company.
Our team collaborates face-to-face from our Barangaroo office in Sydney every day, working closely together to build and ship great products.

About the team
Our cross-functional teams bring together Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers to solve real customer problems rather than simply deliver tickets. We work in a lean, iterative way with a strong focus on MVP, experimentation, and “build, measure, learn.”

Used by millions of travellers each month. Our Frontend Engineers are responsible for improving key parts of the booking journey through product improvements, experimentation, and performance optimisation.

Small improvements to the customer experience can have a meaningful impact on how travellers discover and book incredible holidays.

Our engineers work primarily with React and Typescript, building and evolving a modern frontend platform integrated with a microservices backend running on Node.js and AWS.

Job Description

• Build and ship high-quality frontend features in our React application that improve the customer journey and increase conversion across the Luxury Escapes platform.
• Work closely with Product Managers and Designers to rapidly iterate on customer-facing features, experiments, and improvements to key parts of the booking experience.
• Design and implement A/B tests and product experiments that help us learn faster and improve how travellers discover and book incredible holidays.
• Use AI-augmented development tools and workflows to accelerate development, improve code quality, and help the team ship high-impact features faster.
• Continuously improve frontend performance, reliability, accessibility, and user experience across our web platform serving millions of sessions each month.
• Collaborate with backend teams to integrate frontend features with our microservice architecture and third-party travel systems.
• Contribute to engineering best practices across the team, including automated testing, code quality, and continuous delivery.
• Support and mentor other engineers through code reviews, pairing, and collaborative problem solving.

Qualifications

• Strong experience building and maintaining large-scale React applications in production environments.
• Experience designing high-performance, responsive user interfaces and improving frontend performance, accessibility, and reliability.
• Strong understanding of frontend architecture, including state management, component design, and scalable application structure.
• Experience writing automated tests for frontend applications and contributing to CI/CD workflows that support rapid, reliable releases.
• Experience working closely with product managers and designers to ship high-impact customer-facing features.
• Familiarity integrating frontend applications with microservice-based backends and REST APIs.
• Comfort using AI-augmented development tools and workflows to accelerate development and improve code quality.

Additional Information

What's in it for you?

We consider our people one of our most important assets, and we want our team to love their working lives! When you work for Luxury Escapes, you can look forward to:

• 20% discount on Luxury Holidays
• Breakfast and lunch are provided 5-days a week
• Health and Well-being programs
• Annual Hackathons!
• 1/2 day birthday bonus leave
• A super collaborative team that enjoys creating great platforms

We are a 2026 Circle Back Initiative Employer, committing to responding to every applicant.

As a 2026 Circle Back Initiative employer, we're committed to responding to every applicant.

We embrace diversity in our people and make hiring decisions based on your experiences and skills. We do not discriminate based on gender identity, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. You'll find a collaborative, inclusive, and respectful workplace here at Luxury Escapes, and we are proud to celebrate who you are. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview.