Principal Frontend Engineer
- Company
- Lookahead
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
- Salary
- 200 000–220 000 $/yr
- Posted
- 2026-10-18
Skills: React, Redux, TypeScript
Salary: $200-220k base + super
The role This company builds planning and analytics software used by global apparel and retail brands to decide what they make, buy and range each season. Engineering is seven people, five of them on the frontend and all mid to senior. There is no frontend technical leadership today, so the CTO is carrying it. You would own direction for the React and Redux codebase while still shipping code. Near term work includes folding a standalone product back into the main app and rebuilding the forecasting engine so it scales.
About you
• You have owned client side state and rendering architecture at data density: collaborative editing, virtualised grids, or datasets in the hundreds of thousands of rows • 5+ years React and TypeScript, commercial Redux, and real opinions about store architecture • Still writing production code, and you want to keep it that way • You have set
Full text and application on the employer's site.