Job description
About Us
At Displayr, our mission is to make it easier for everyone to find and share the stories in their data. We do this by creating software that makes it easy to do all aspects of data analysis and reporting, from simple tables through to machine learning, PowerPoint automation to online dashboards.
Our Engineering team is at the heart of this mission, and we need YOU.
As a bootstrapped company with no corporate debt or external advisors, we’ve grown steadily over seven years from 11 to over 95 team members, serving 1,700+ clients, including industry leaders like Nielsen, Meta, and Amazon. We’ve earned recognition as a Great Place to Work for three years in a row and ranked 1st in ANZ’s Best Tech Companies 2023.
We are the proud winners of Work180 Equitable Workplace Awards for flexible working in both 2023 and 2024.
With our head office in Sydney and teams across Australia, New Zealand, North America, and the UK, we’re shaping the future of data storytelling—join us as we make data more accessible, insightful, and actionable.
About the Role
We’re seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to take a leadership role in shaping the experience and architecture of Displayr’s platform. This is a high-impact, senior engineering role where your decisions will influence how thousands of users interact with our software daily.
You’ll design and implement major features, define frontend architecture, and collaborate closely with product, design, and other engineers to drive best practices across the team. You’ll also mentor peers, champion high-quality code, and play a key role in setting the technical direction for the frontend.
This is a role for someone who thrives in a fast-growing, product-focused environment, enjoys solving complex technical challenges, and wants to make a tangible impact on a platform used globally to turn data into actionable insights.
What You’ll Do
- Lead the design and implementation of major frontend features, with end-to-end ownership from concept to production.
- Define and evolve frontend architecture to support scalability, maintainability, and performance.
- Mentor and guide engineers, sharing your expertise and raising the bar for technical excellence.
- Collaborate with product and design to create intuitive, polished, and high-performing user experiences.
- Drive frontend best practices in testing, accessibility, performance, and maintainability.
- Continuously explore new technologies and approaches to improve our stack and development processes.
- Influence long-term engineering direction and contribute to product strategy.
About You
- You have extensive experience building complex, large-scale web applications and have led frontend projects with significant business impact.
- Expert in JavaScript, TypeScript, and React, with deep understanding of frontend patterns, state management, and performance optimization.
- Experienced in architecting maintainable, scalable, and high-performance frontends that serve a large, global user base.
- Proven track record of mentoring engineers, leading initiatives, and influencing product and technical direction.
- Skilled in frontend testing, accessibility, performance optimization, and long-term maintainability.
- Strong communicator who can collaborate across teams, balancing technical excellence with product and business needs.
- Passionate about continuous learning, innovation, and elevating the frontend team.
Our Tech Stack
- Frontend: TypeScript, JavaScript, React
- Backend: C#, SQL
- Other: Python, R, Rust, Node.js
- Infrastructure: Azure, Kubernetes
Why Displayr?
At Displayr, you’re more than just a cog in a machine—you’re a key player driving meaningful change. Your decisions will have tangible impacts, and you’ll tackle big, thorny problems that challenge and showcase your exceptional technical skills.
Here’s why you’ll thrive with us:
- Innovative and evidence-driven—Ideas are driven by data, not hierarchy.
- High-trust, high-autonomy culture—Enjoy the freedom to do your best work with flexibility and support.
- Global reach—As part of an international company with offices in Sydney, Chicago, and London, your contributions will have a worldwide impact.
- Stable and growing—We’re a bootstrapped, growing company with a strong foundation.
We also offer a range of benefits to support your well-being and professional growth:
- Competitive salary that recognizes your expertise and contributions.
- Share options—be part of our success as we grow.
- 14 weeks of paid parental leave, supporting you during life’s important moments.
- A relaxed, high-trust culture that values high performance and empowers you to do your best work.
- Flexible working hours to help you balance life and work.
- $2,000 learning allowance to invest in your professional growth.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Program, providing support when you need it.
- A hybrid work environment—enjoy the flexibility of working from home and our Pyrmont office, complete with perks like a pool and a tennis court.
We believe that a workplace that welcomes a variety of perspectives, experiences and backgrounds is important and will only push us to be better. We never discriminate on the basis of gender, age, ethnic background, disability status, religion, or sexual orientation.
