Senior Frontend Engineer — Next.js & TypeScript

JobSpace; New Zealand; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

First Table is seeking a Senior Web Engineer to build customer-facing features and influence product direction.

You will work with React, Next.js, TypeScript and Tailwind CSS to deliver fast, accessible interfaces across our platform. Collaborating with Product and Design, you will ship on a modern frontend stack and contribute to design systems while driving performance improvements.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with React and TypeScript.
• Experience building applications with Next.js.
• Excellent frontend engineering fundamentals.
• A good eye for UI quality and customer experience.
• Experience working closely with Product and Design teams.
• Confidence owning features from idea through to production.
• A pragmatic approach to balancing speed with quality.

Responsibilities

• Building new customer-facing features in our booking platform
• Creating polished, responsive interfaces with React, Next.js and Tailwind CSS
• Prototyping entirely new product ideas
• Improving performance, accessibility and user experience
• Working alongside Product and Design to solve real customer problems
• Building reusable components and evolving our design system
• Supporting experiments and A/B testing to improve conversion
• Occasionally contributing to our React Native mobile application
• Helping improve our engineering practices and AI-assisted development workflows

Skills

React

TypeScript

Next.js

Frontend engineering fundamentals

UI quality

Product collaboration

Tools

Tailwind CSS

GraphQL

React Native/Expo

GrowthBook

Job description

First Table is seeking a Senior Web Engineer to build customer-facing features and influence product direction.

You will work with React, Next.js, TypeScript and Tailwind CSS to deliver fast, accessible interfaces across our platform. Collaborating with Product and Design, you will ship on a modern frontend stack and contribute to design systems while driving performance improvements.