Senior Front End Engineer – Adelaide, SA

HappyCo is a company where people can grow their careers and work with like minded people, with no egos or politics. HappyCo is values driven and offers a flexible, supportive culture. Join HappyCo and Make Work Happy!

We’re looking for a Senior Front End Engineer to join our team.

The Position

As a Senior Front End Engineer you will be a key contributor to the development of experiences that meet our customers needs. You will apply your expertise to design, develop, test, and maintain responsive and performant user interfaces using modern JavaScript frameworks, especially React. At HappyCo we empower our teams to solve problems in ways our customers and partners love and that work for our business. Working alongside Product Managers, Designers and Engineers you will help advance us along our technology roadmap, leveraging your experience to ensure the user experience is optimised to deliver a performant, scalable and best in class experience to our customers.

You will bring your experience translating product requirements and UI/UX designs into clean, efficient code, ensuring you identify potential problems and risks in both the code and feature design and communicate these with your peers. You will be able to take moderately complex products and features and break down work into tasks and deliver them in collaboration with your team, ensuring that value can be delivered to customers early. As an AI-powered company, we equip you with the latest tools and services to amplify your impact every day. We provide our engineers with the opportunity to work across our technical stack (React, Ruby, GraphQL, Golang) but front end experience will be essential to be successful in this role.

During your first week you will:

Setup your Development Environment

Push your first front end change for review and deployment

Get to know our leadership, culture, and values

Familiarize yourself with our products, systems and tools

During your first six weeks you will:

Onboard with the product, design and engineering teams

Implement well structured code aligned to our product architecture and engineering principles

Interact with our customers and customer representatives, either directly or asynchronously, to build an understanding of their needs and to increase your domain knowledge

Work with your Product Team to apply your Front End expertise to solve customer problems that will progress you towards achieving your team outcomes

Attend your first Company Wide Meeting (quarterly)

During your first six months you will:

Assist in driving the improvement of software development processes ensuring the early delivery of value to our customers

Provide coaching and mentoring to other software engineering staff in Front End Engineering practices

Continue to develop your knowledge and technical skills to grow your engineering capability

Champion our culture of transparency, success and happiness

Required Qualifications & Skills:

Relevant tertiary qualifications (e.g. Bachelor/Grad Dip. Science/Computer Science/Software Engineering, IT Certification or similar) or equivalent practical experience

At least 5 years proven working experience in front end software development

Expert knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript

Strong experience with React and modern frontend frameworks

Demonstrable experience in building solutions based on an understanding of your users and the objectives of the business

Experience translating design artifacts e.g. Figma prototypes, into scalable and maintainable front-end code.

Demonstrable experience in taking complex solutions and breaking them into development iterations that provide early value to customers

Deep understanding of the use of APIs such as GraphQL in front end software applications

Knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG), performance optimization and experience with testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Cypress, Playwright)

Sound understanding of design and architectural patterns, and coding practices

Experience with software development and quality processes, especially Agile development methodologies

Positive work attitude and a growth mindset

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment across multiple time zones (North America and AUS) requiring effective asynchronous communication

Desirable Qualifications, Skills & Experience:

Familiarity with Ruby, GoLang, GraphQL

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and build tools like Bazel

Familiarity with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, including an understanding of performance tuning techniques

Knowledge of design systems and component libraries (e.g., Storybook, Mantine)

Experience working in a B2B / SaaS / Agency environment

Our HappyCo Culture & Benefits

HappyCo strives to build better communities. So naturally, we are dedicated to making our own community an enjoyable place that lets us do our best work. We’re devoted to building an inclusive, supportive culture that empowers each HappyCo’er to succeed and grow. To learn more about our culture, check out our careers page!

We Offer:

– Opportunity to work for one of the fastest growing technology companies in the PropTech industry

– Generous paid parental leave

– Competitive and equitable pay, including stock options

– Access to employee assistance programs to support both physical and mental wellness