🎮 Lead Frontend Engineer Build products. Shape experiences. Create something people genuinely care about.

📍 Auckland | Hybrid | Permanent 💰 $150,000-$165,000 + benefits Not every frontend role is about another dashboard. Not every engineering team gives you a genuine voice. We're working with an ambitious New Zealand entertainment company that's building an engineering-first culture where product quality, craftsmanship and user experience genuinely matter. This is your opportunity to own the frontend experience across a suite of digital products, customer-facing websites and internal platforms used every day by a passionate global community. If you're the type of engineer who notices the small details others miss, enjoys solving real user problems and loves building beautiful, intuitive interfaces, keep reading. This isn't just another React role. You'll work across multiple digital experiences, including: 🎯 Product experiences 🌐 Marketing and website experiences ⚙️ Internal tools and operational platforms You'll partner closely with Product, Design and Backend Engineering to shape not only how things look, but how they work. From early concepts through to production, you'll have genuine ownership and influence over the user experience. You'll thrive here if you... ✔ Love building polished digital experiences. ✔ Care about UX as much as engineering. ✔ Enjoy improving existing products rather than constantly starting from scratch. ✔ Think in reusable components and scalable frontend systems. ✔ Like variety and context switching between products, websites and internal applications. ✔ Want to influence technical direction without moving into people management. What you'll bring 5+ years building modern web applications.Strong JavaScript, HTML and CSS fundamentals.Commercial experience with React, Vue or similar frameworks.Experience building production-ready applications.REST and/or GraphQL API experience.Responsive UI expertise across desktop and mobile.Experience collaborating closely with Product and Design.Confidence contributing to UX decisions, not simply implementing them.Git, CI/CD and modern development workflows. Bonus points if you've worked with: WordPressDesign systemsAccessibilitySEOPerformance optimisationMarketing or campaign experiencesGaming or interactive entertainment Why you'll love it This is a business where engineering is becoming central to the company's future. You'll work alongside experienced Product and Engineering leaders who value thoughtful solutions over rushing features out the door. There's very little bureaucracy, plenty of ownership and the opportunity to make a visible impact across multiple products. You'll be trusted to challenge ideas, improve experiences and build software properly. Sound like you? We'd love to hear from engineers who enjoy building products that people actually use and love. If you've been looking for a role where frontend engineering, product thinking and great user experience all matter equally, this could be exactly what you're looking for.