Frontend Engineer

Reports to: CEO Location: Hybrid - minimum 3 days/week in office Come work for Australia fastest growing and leading independent climate and sustainability firm. We are taking our work digital with Scenova - a digital platform designed for Australia’s mandatory climate reporting landscape covering ASRS, NGER and NPI. The Role We've validated our product logic in a no-code prototype - now we're rebuilding it as a real, secure application. You'll take the client-facing wizard (focal framing → scenario construction → narrative output) and rebuild it as a proper React/TypeScript app against a real backend API, working closely with our data engineer as one of the first two hires into the company's new data and engineering function. A core part of the product is AI-assisted content - assumptions, questions, and narratives drafted by a model. Your job is making it unmistakably clear, at every step, what the AI proposed versus what a human reviewed and approved. What You'll Do Rebuild the client wizard flow as a production React/TypeScript app, connected to a real API (not embedded page logic) Partner with the data engineer to define the API contract - confirmed vs. draft vs. gap - so state survives a refresh and multiple users Build the genuinely interactive pieces as real components: a draggable scenario-positioning canvas, editable assumption grids, and live-recalculating timeline bars Design clear UI patterns for AI-assisted content: AI-drafted / user-edited / approved states, and simple edit-or-regenerate flows Treat tenant isolation as a frontend responsibility - no client should ever see another client's data, including drafts and unsaved edits Identify where the current prototype won't hold up in production (missing loading states, error handling, network assumptions) and fix it Must-Haves 4–6+ years production React and TypeScript; comfortable owning component architecture, not just individual screens Strong JavaScript, HTML, CSS Modern build tooling (Vite, Webpack) Testing experience (Playwright, Jest, or Vitest) State management (Redux, Zustand, React Query, or similar) Git and collaborative GitHub workflows Real experience building against a proper backend API - not querying the database directly from the frontend Comfortable with data-dense UI: editable tables, derived values, interactive charts Experience building UI around AI-generated content - streaming/async responses, provenance indicators, graceful handling of missing or bad generations Confident working from a rough but functional prototype as the spec, without needing polished designs handed over Practical fluency with AI-assisted development tools (Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar) - you use them as part of your daily workflow, not just experimenting Nice-to-Haves Prior data visualisation-heavy roles B2B/SaaS experience, ideally in a dense (not consumer) product Exposure to ESG, sustainability, or another regulated reporting domain Experience designing draft/review/approve UX for LLM-backed features Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP Why Join Ground-floor role shaping how the frontend discipline is built here - not just executing a fixed brief Hybrid, flexible working environment Professional development support