Senior Frontend Engineer (Australia - AEST, Remote)

Tailor; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

Tailor is hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer to join the Frontend Platform team. You will build delightful frontend experiences for developers on Tailor’s headless platform, including the Console and frontend libraries.

You’ll collaborate with global teams and craft scalable UI components and system primitives that power customer solutions. You’ll shape developer experience, contribute to architecture on React/TypeScript, and work asynchronously across AU/JP/US time zones, delivering

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional frontend development experience.
• Deep expertise in React and TypeScript.
• Experience building design systems, component libraries, or developer-facing tools.
• Thoughtful perspectives on frontend architecture, state management, and developer experience.
• Comfortable working asynchronously across timezones (AU/JP/US).
• Shipped production software to real users and understands product vs code.
• Experience building on headless/composable platforms or enterprise software.
• Terraform and Go experience is a plus, or eagerness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve Tailor's Console — the primary interface for developers configuring and managing their Tailor applications.
• Develop reusable UI components and design system primitives used across our platform and customer applications.
• Create frontend abstractions (AppShell) that accelerate how forward deployed teams deliver customer solutions.
• Collaborate with Platform teams based in Japan to ship features end-to-end.
• Shape the developer experience for engineers building on Tailor's platform.
• Contribute to architectural decisions around our React/TypeScript stack.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Frontend architecture

Design systems

Developer tools

Remote collaboration

Headless/composable platforms

Terraform

Go

Tools

Terraform

Go

Job description

About Tailor

Tailor is pioneering Headless ERP technology — a new way for growing companies to design internal workflows that fit their business, not the other way around. Our platform combines the flexibility of modern developer tools with the power of enterprise-grade operations.

We’re helping multi-channel retailers, manufacturers, and B2B businesses replace rigid systems with adaptive, composable infrastructure. If you care about solving complex real-world problems and building products that scale from first principles, you’ll fit right in.

Lastly, we’re a Y-Combinator backed startup and have recently closed our $37M USD Series A to accelerate the future of composable ERP.

The Role

We're looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join Tailor's Frontend Platform team full time.

This role will focus on building delightful frontend experiences for developers, building on top of Tailor's platform. This includes our developer Console application and frontend framework, components and libraries.

You’ll work with our Core Platform teams in building user interfaces for platform features in Console and also the Forward Deployed teams in creating frontend applications used for delivering end-customer solutions.

What you’ll do

• Build and improve Tailor's Console — the primary interface for developers configuring and managing their Tailor applications

• Develop reusable UI components and design system primitives used across our platform and customer applications

• Create frontend abstractions (AppShell) that accelerate how forward deployed teams deliver customer solutions

• Collaborate with Platform teams based in Japan to ship features end-to-end

• Shape the developer experience for engineers building on Tailor's platform

• Contribute to architectural decisions around our React/TypeScript stack

Who you are

• 5+ years of professional frontend development experience

• Deep expertise in React and TypeScript

• Experience building design systems, component libraries, or developer-facing tools

• Thoughtful perspectives on frontend architecture, state management, and developer experience

• Comfortable working asynchronously across timezones (AU/JP/US)

• You’ve shipped production software to real users and understand the difference between code and product

• Experience building on headless/composable platforms or enterprise software

• Terraform and Go experience is a plus, or you’re excited to learn it

Location

Remote, AU East Coast