Senior Frontend Engineer

Dogs, cats, budgies and everything in between - pets deserve the world. They make us want to be better humans. That’s why we’ve made it our mission to build the most engaged and passionate community of pets and pet parents across the world. And we’re looking for talented team mates who can help us do it.

Founded in Sydney, our team of 500+ pet obsessives span Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines. We’ve scaled to become one of Australia's top five eComm companies and the no.1 online pet store. But we’re just getting started. Like a whippet who’s spotted their mate across the dog park, our growth is only going to accelerate, as we continue to disrupt the way that pet parents shop.

Excitingly, the pet industry is booming (as in $15 billion kind of booming) and online pet retail is set to grow exponentially in the next five years. So this is a unique career opportunity to be part of our epic growth story.

The opportunity

Reporting to our Frontend Lead, this is an opportunity to step into a pivotal Senior Frontend Engineer role where your work will directly shape our website technology and uplift the skills of those around you. We’re looking for someone who sees technology not just as code, but as a powerful way to solve real-world business challenges and create seamless customer experiences.

In this role, you’ll lead by example, raise the bar for technical excellence, and inspire collaboration across the team. If you’re driven by impact, excited to see your ideas come to life, and motivated to craft digital experiences that truly matter, this is where you’ll thrive.

What you’ll be doing

Our technology

• TypeScript / React / React Native /Next.js
• Docker
• Google Cloud Platform

The ideal toolkit

• 5+ years’ in development, with website and application experience.
• Strong understanding of React and Next.js
• Understanding of the browser engine and related technologies 
• Can write clean and scalable code and knows when to refactor 
• Can write scripts to automate tasks (bash/nodejs etc). 
• Client side Testing experience (e.g. BDD, TDD, UI). 
• System and architectural thinker, able to communicate intent and release it on top of a live system

Juicy perks

• Heaps of development opportunities - stretch projects, focus groups & secondments 
• Flexible working environment 
• Up to 50% employee discount
• Product sample giveaways
• Pawrental leave and wellbeing leave 
• Team charity volunteer days 
• Classpass subsidy

Role location

We believe that building connections and collaborating as Pet Circlers is super important. So this role is based in Sydney with a hybrid arrangement of 1-3 days per week in our pet friendly offices (your pet might love coming to the office even more than you).

Why join?

We reckon our mission to help the world Pet Better is an important one, but also an incredibly fun and rewarding one. Becoming a Pet Circler means you’re committed to help shape an entire industry - it’s pretty exciting stuff. Here’s what we stand for:

• We’re better together
• We operate with humble hearts and hungry minds
• Pets matter; so pets and pet parents always have a seat at our table
• We’re instinctively curious. Always

Belong at Pet Circle

Our unique perspectives and expertise is our superpower - we value diversity in all forms. So, no matter your background, please apply if this role makes you excited to bring your full self to work each day.