Front End Developer
We're seeking a passionate Front End Developer who sweats the details and elevates our front-end practice.
Shape beautiful, impactful digital experiences with a team that values your expertise.
Who We Are
At Inlight, we create thoughtful digital products that solve complex business challenges and deliver real results. Our cross-functional team of 40+ friendly professionals combines strategy, design, and technology to build experiences that make a difference for our clients and their users.
The Opportunity
We're seeking a passionate Front End Developer who sweats the details and elevates our front-end practice. Whether you're a mid-level developer ready to grow or an experienced Staff Engineer, if you love creating polished interfaces and setting technical standards, we want to talk.
You'll join a team of skilled developers who are fluent in React, Next.js, and today's modern front-end technologies. Working closely with our design team, you'll transform creative concepts into polished, functional interfaces. We're specifically seeking someone who excels in crafting exceptional user experiences, meticulously translating design systems into beautiful UIs, and obsessing over the fine details—whether establishing clean Tailwind foundations or perfecting the subtle nuances of styling and interaction design.
Depending on your experience and aptitude, there’s potential to grow into a technical leadership role (Front End Practice Lead), where you’ll act as a mentor and force multiplier across multiple teams.
About the Role
As a Developer at Inlight, you'll write and (peer review) plenty of high quality, well-tested and thoughtfully structured code. You'll also take ownership of everything around the code which is necessary to build great products, including: requirements analysis; design collaboration; backlog refinement; prototyping / proof of concept; solution architecture; technical design; automated testing; manual QA & release management; troubleshooting and support in production.
We're looking for people who prefer this high-responsibility model, rather than wanting to be told exactly what code to write.
What We're Looking For
Required Experience & Skills
- 5+ years of professional front-end development experience
- Expert knowledge of modern CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML and React
- Breadth of understanding of topics relevant to frond end development
- Strong interest in UI/UX design and experience working closely with designers
- Strong Experience with component-based architectures (React.js; Next.js or comparable frameworks)
- Demonstrated ability to translate designs into thoughtfully crafted interfaces with precision and care
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent knowledge in software development
Nice to Haves
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent knowledge in software development
- Experience with TailwindCSS and design systems
- Strong practical understanding of front end build pipelines
- Strong understanding of the internals of at least one framework
- Competency in other languages, frameworks
- Background or education in design
- Experience mentoring other developers
- Potential to grow into a front end practice lead (technical leadership role)
Our Tech Stack
- Front-end: typically React (JavaScript/TypeScript), Next.js, React Native, TailwindCSS
- Back-end: Node.js + various (tRPC, REST, GraphQL, SQL, Redis, DynamoDB)
- Infrastructure: Vercel, AWS, serverless architectures
What We Value
We embrace diversity as an equal opportunity employer, knowing different perspectives strengthen our thinking. We create an environment where everyone feels welcome to contribute, make an impact, and build an exciting career.
Our belief is simple: highly engaged, autonomous, expert teams deliver the best results—and make Inlight a great place to work.
Ready to Apply?
If this opportunity excites you, we’d love to hear from you! Apply via the link or reach out to Malou (Talent Lead & People Ops) at careers@inlight.com.au with any questions.
Check out our Glassdoor reviews to see what makes Inlight a great place to work:
- Department
- Development
- Locations
- Melbourne
- Remote status
- Hybrid
About Inlight
We are a Melbourne-based agency that crafts digital products and experiences. We’re a bunch of curious humans - the kind of curious that makes us great at what we do. We challenge how things are done, ask questions, be creative and uncover real problems.
Front End Developer
We're seeking a passionate Front End Developer who sweats the details and elevates our front-end practice.
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