Senior Frontend Engineer — AI UI & Real-Time Apps

Hume AI; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Hume AI is seeking a product-minded frontend engineer to build the interfaces through which developers, enterprises, and consumers interact with Hume’s voice AI platform. You will work primarily in TypeScript, React, and Next.js, collaborating with backend engineers, product managers, designers, and research teams.

This senior role focuses on frontend architecture, performance, usability, and engineering quality, with autonomy from design to production support.

Qualifications

• Significant professional experience building production web applications.
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript, React, and Next.js.
• Strong understanding of modern JavaScript, HTML, CSS, browser rendering, caching, and frontend performance.
• Experience designing maintainable frontend architectures, including application state, data fetching, and data flows.
• Experience building responsive, accessible, and polished user interfaces.
• Experience with automated frontend testing, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to explain, validate, and modify AI-assisted code independently.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain production web applications using TypeScript, React, and Next.js.
• Build intuitive interfaces for Hume’s voice AI products and developer platform.
• Develop reusable frontend components and shared engineering patterns.
• Integrate frontend applications with APIs, WebSockets, and real-time services.
• Build and maintain automated frontend tests.
• Diagnose and improve frontend reliability, performance, and usability.
• Collaborate with product and design to ship polished user experiences.
• Write clear technical documentation for the systems and features you build.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Next.js

Frontend architecture

UI/UX intuition

API integration

Automated frontend testing

Strong communication

Tools

Playwright

Job description

Hume AI is seeking a product-minded frontend engineer to build the interfaces through which developers, enterprises, and consumers interact with Hume’s voice AI platform. You will work primarily in TypeScript, React, and Next.js, collaborating with backend engineers, product managers, designers, and research teams.

This senior role focuses on frontend architecture, performance, usability, and engineering quality, with autonomy from design to production support.