Senior Frontend Engineer — React & TypeScript for AI Studio

Creative Fabrica; Wellington; Remote; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Creative Fabrica is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to own the Studio frontend, delivering fast, polished UI used daily by creators. You’ll collaborate with product designers and engineers, ship production-ready React/TypeScript features, and push performance improvements in a highly capable AI-driven design suite.

You will shape architecture, drive key frontend decisions, and stay at the forefront of performance and UX patterns while working from New Zealand or Australia.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional frontend engineering experience shipping production web applications.
• Strong proficiency with React and TypeScript in real product codebases (not only prototypes).
• Deep understanding of frontend performance: rendering, bundling, caching, profiling, and fixing real bottlenecks.
• Experience building complex, interactive product UI (dashboards, editors, creative tools, or similarly rich apps).
• Comfortable using AI tools to accelerate your own engineering process.
• Good written and spoken English.
• Creative and proactive: comfortable proposing ideas, not only implementing briefs.
• Thrives in ambiguity: clarifies incomplete requirements, makes sound calls, and keeps shipping without waiting for perfect specs.
• Independent and resourceful: unblocks yourself, finds answers fast, and owns delivery without heavy hand-holding, while still partnering well with design and engineering.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship high-quality product UI for Studio in React and TypeScript.
• Own complex frontend features end-to-end: architecture, implementation, polish, and follow-through in production.
• Obsess over performance: load time, runtime responsiveness, rendering, and perceived speed in a heavy creative/AI product.
• Partner tightly with Product Design: turn Figma into buildable reality, improve the experience together.
• Bring ideas to the table, including better interactions, smarter component patterns, UX improvements, and technical approaches that make creators faster.
• Raise the quality bar for frontend code: clarity, maintainability, testing where it matters, and reusable systems.
• Work with APIs, state, and real-time or media-heavy flows typical of an AI creative suite.
• Collaborate with backend and platform engineers to deliver reliable, scalable product experiences.
• Use AI tools to accelerate your own work without lowering engineering standards.
• Help shape frontend standards, reviews, and technical direction as a senior voice on the team.
• Stay current with React, TypeScript, modern frontend performance practices, and AI product UX patterns.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Frontend performance

UI polish

English proficiency

Tools

Figma

Job description

Creative Fabrica is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to own the Studio frontend, delivering fast, polished UI used daily by creators. You’ll collaborate with product designers and engineers, ship production-ready React/TypeScript features, and push performance improvements in a highly capable AI-driven design suite.

You will shape architecture, drive key frontend decisions, and stay at the forefront of performance and UX patterns while working from New Zealand or Australia.