Senior Frontend Developer

Location: Wellington
Job type: Permanent
Salary: $120,000 – $140,000 + Development + PPL + Wellness
Contact name: Greg Nicolas

Contact email: greg@placeme.nz
Published: 7 days ago

🚀 Senior Frontend Developer | Wellington | Full-time

Are you a Senior Frontend Developer ready for your next big move? We’re working with one of Wellington’s fastest-growing tech scale-ups who are after a talented coder to join their high-performing engineering team.

This is your chance to work on a product that Kiwis genuinely love 💛. You’ll be building clean, scalable features from idea to launch, mentoring junior devs, and collaborating across teams in a modern, agile environment that moves fast but values work-life balance (yes, jandals are encouraged).

What makes this role stand out:

  • Agile, impact-driven delivery with daily deployments

  • Strong code reviews and CI/CD processes to keep quality high

  • Time set aside for learning, refactoring, and avoiding burnout

  • Brand new project-based team

Your role:

  • Develop new frontend features with clean, reliable code

  • Work closely with product, engineering, and ops teams

  • Lead architecture planning and best practice discussions

  • Drive testing strategy and enhance code quality

  • Manage and improve a significant amount of legacy frontend code, with a willingness to work effectively within existing systems.

You’ll need:

  • 5+ years’ experience with React (This is key), JavaScript, HTML & CSS (the more, the better!)

  • Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset

  • A problem-solving approach with empathy for the end user

  • Experience with automated testing and CI/CD workflows

  • Full working rights in New Zealand

Nice to have:

  • Experience with design systems

  • Ruby on Rails skills

  • Scaling large platforms or systems

If you’re keen to work somewhere that ships fast, works smart, and still makes time for a flat white or a beach stroll, then get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!