Senior Frontend Engineer

Pyrmont , Australia
full-time

AI overview

Lead the design and architecture of user-facing features in a collaborative environment, crafting high-performing frontends while tackling complex, large-scale applications.

About Us

At Displayr, our mission is to make it easier for everyone to find and share the stories in their data. We do this by creating software that makes it easy to do all aspects of data analysis and reporting, from simple tables through to machine learning, PowerPoint automation to online dashboards.

Our Engineering team is at the heart of this mission, and we need YOU.

As a bootstrapped company with no corporate debt or external advisors, we’ve grown steadily over seven years from 11 to over 95 team members, serving 1,700+ clients, including industry leaders like Nielsen, Meta, and Amazon. We’ve earned recognition as a Great Place to Work for three years in a row and ranked 1st in ANZ’s Best Tech Companies 2023.

We are the proud winners of Work180 Equitable Workplace Awards for flexible working in both 2023 and 2024.

With our head office in Sydney and teams across Australia, New Zealand, North America, and the UK, we’re shaping the future of data storytelling—join us as we make data more accessible, insightful, and actionable.

About the Role

We're hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer with deep expertise in TypeScript, JavaScript, and React. You’ll lead the design, architecture, and development of user-facing features that power our core product.

From your first week, you’ll be shipping code, contributing to architectural discussions, and collaborating closely with design and product. Over time, you’ll take full ownership of major features, drive frontend best practices, and help shape our long-term engineering direction.

This role is perfect for someone who wants to build large-scale, complex applications and craft polished, high-performing frontends.

About You

  • 5+ years of experience building modern software applications, including:
    • Web applications
    • Customer-facing features
    • Designing, architecting, and implementing modern frontends
  • Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript (essential)
  • Deep experience with React (and ideally MobX)
  • Strong understanding of frontend architecture, performance, accessibility, testing, and maintainability
  • A thoughtful builder who can balance performance, simplicity, and long-term scalability
  • Experience working on large-scale applications or complex frontends
  • Excellent communicator who enjoys collaboration with product, design, and other engineers
  • Writes clean, testable, production-ready code
  • A continuous learner who seeks improvement and contributes new ideas

Our Tech Stack

  • Frontend: TypeScript, JavaScript, React
  • Backend: C#, SQL.
  • Other: Python, R, Rust, Node.js
  • Infrastructure: Azure, Kubernetes

Why Displayr?

At Displayr, you’re more than just a cog in a machine—you’re a key player driving meaningful change. Your decisions will have tangible impacts, and you’ll tackle big, thorny problems that challenge and showcase your exceptional technical skills.

Here’s why you’ll thrive with us:

  • Innovative and evidence-driven—Ideas are driven by data, not hierarchy.
  • High-trust, high-autonomy culture—Enjoy the freedom to do your best work with flexibility and support.
  • Global reach—As part of an international company with offices in Sydney, Chicago, and London, your contributions will have a worldwide impact.
  • Stable and growing—We’re a bootstrapped, growing company with a strong foundation.

We also offer a range of benefits to support your well-being and professional growth:

  • Competitive salary that recognizes your expertise and contributions.
  • Share options—be part of our success as we grow.
  • 14 weeks of paid parental leave, supporting you during life’s important moments.
  • A relaxed, high-trust culture that values high performance and empowers you to do your best work.
  • Flexible working hours to help you balance life and work.
  • $2,000 learning allowance to invest in your professional growth.
  • Access to an Employee Assistance Program, providing support when you need it.
  • A hybrid work environment—enjoy the flexibility of working from home and our Pyrmont office, complete with perks like a pool and a tennis court.

We believe that a workplace that welcomes a variety of perspectives, experiences and backgrounds is important and will only push us to be better. We never discriminate on the basis of gender, age, ethnic background, disability status, religion, or sexual orientation.

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Flexible Work Hours: Flexible working hours to help you balance life and work.
  • Learning Budget: $2,000 learning allowance to invest in your professional growth.
  • Hybrid work environment with office perks: A hybrid work environment—enjoy the flexibility of working from home and our Pyrmont office, complete with perks like a pool and a tennis court.
  • Paid Parental Leave: 14 weeks of paid parental leave, supporting you during life’s important moments.

At Displayr, we're working to solve the biggest problem in data science: it is just too hard to do. We're building apps that bring data science, visualization, and reporting to everyone. Our two main products are Displayr, the world's first complete data science tool; and Q, the complete toolkit for market researchers. Our core business is a combination of advanced software engineering and data science, coupled with elegant design.We are a diverse team of thinkers and doers who are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to make it easy for anyone to discover and share the stories in their data. At Displayr you'll never be just a cog in the large engine. You'll have all the opportunities you need to grow and thrive quickly.We currently have offices in Sydney, Chicago, and London.

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