Lead Frontend Engineer
Corto Pty Ltd4 days ago
Sydney, AustraliaSenior
Responsibilities
- Partner with the UX/UI Lead to understand design intent, explore alternatives, and improve product clarity and usability.
- Translate Figma designs into high-quality, responsive React interfaces with careful attention to layout, typography, spacing, transitions, and interactions.
- Complete frontend experiences by implementing loading, empty, error, validation, focus, and disabled states.
- Refine initial frontend implementations from full-stack developers into production-ready interfaces with improved component structure, state handling, usability, and consistency.
- Build and maintain reusable component libraries, frontend conventions, documentation, and shared interaction patterns.
- Improve loading performance, rendering efficiency, interaction responsiveness, accessibility, and cross-browser reliability.
- Write maintainable, tested code and participate in code reviews and collaborative technical discussions.
Requirements
- Strong React and TypeScript skills with a solid understanding of JavaScript, semantic HTML, CSS, and modern frontend frameworks and tooling.
- Experience building and maintaining substantial frontend applications rather than isolated screens.
- Experience with reusable components, application state, API integration, responsive design, accessibility, testing, and performance optimization.
- Ability to interpret Figma designs, discuss design intent, prototype ideas, and resolve implementation details with designers.
- Strong visual and interaction judgment, including attention to spacing, hierarchy, feedback, behavior, clarity, and predictability.
- A proactive and collaborative approach with the ability to improve existing implementations and share ownership of finished products.
- Examples of products, components, or case studies demonstrating frontend engineering decisions and meaningful user-experience improvements.
- Experience with design systems, Storybook or similar component documentation tools, complex forms, workflow-heavy applications, or AI-powered interfaces is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid and flexible working in Sydney, Australia.
- Career and learning opportunities in a scaling business.
- Additional time off, gym membership, and other well-being perks.
- Social events, celebrations, sports teams, and access to sailing and yacht events.
- Access to LEAP Home, an ATI Group program supporting employees in buying a primary residence.
- Opportunity to work on complex projects with significant autonomy and impact.
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About Corto Pty Ltd
Corto builds AI-powered legal software for law firms, combining practice management, legal research and drafting assistance, workflow automation, and integrated accounting. The cloud-based platform is sold on a subscription basis to legal practitioners and firms, supporting matter management, billing, and document automation. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Sydney, Corto is part of ATI Global, an international legaltech group.