🐇 Front-End Developer (Mid-Level) — React + TypeScript + Node

🐇 Front-End Developer (Mid-Level) — React + TypeScript + Node

Chatswood \| 5 days on-site \| Mandarin required \| Game Development

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” — Alice

Choose Your Door…

Door A: The Safe Hallway

Fluorescent lights hum. Standups drag. Your pull request waits… and waits. You sigh, sip a lukewarm coffee, and promise yourself that “next sprint” you’ll actually ship something fun.

Door B: The Rabbit Hole

You step through a studio in Chatswood where prototypes become playable in days, not months. UI states shimmer like potions, builds deploy at the ping of a pipeline, and teammates switch between English and Mandarin like Cheshire Cats grinning between worlds. A game designer slides you a sketch: “Can this menu feel…

curiouser and curiouser

?” You smile, open your editor, and React.

If you picked

Door B

, read on. (If you picked Door A, we wish you many fluorescent bulbs.)

Your Quest

You’ll be the front-end adventurer turning wild ideas into polished, performant game interfaces for web and mobile titles. One day you’re refining animation timing so a button “pops” just right; the next you’re wiring a Node-powered API into a TypeScript state machine faster than you can say “Eat Me.”

You’ll pair with artists, designers, and backend mages, shipping features frequently via CI/CD. Dailies might be in Mandarin; code reviews in crisp TypeScript; launches with cake (sometimes literally).

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” — The Cheshire Cat

Power-Ups You Wield (a bit later, as promised)

React + TypeScript

mastery for building sleek, reusable UI components.

Node.js

know-how to integrate front end with services/SSR/APIs.

Mandarin (spoken \& written)

for daily collaboration with offshore teammates.

CI/CD

familiarity (GitHub Actions/GitLab/CircleCI) to ship fast and safe.

3+ years

crafting

complex software

(this is a

mid-level

role).

Nice-to-Haves in Your Satchel

Next.js, WebSockets/real-time updates, performance profiling.

Testing (Jest/RTL/Playwright/Cypress).

Any game/web graphics tinkering (Canvas, WebGL, PixiJS/Three.js).

The Map \& The Loot

Where:

Chatswood studio,

on-site 5 days/week

(think buzzing dev floor + playtest nook).

Reward:

A$110k–$125k + super

(commensurate with your XP).

Start:

As soon as you can tumble down the rabbit hole.

Visa:

AU work rights required (no sponsorship this round).

Why This Adventure?

Ship like a speedrunner:

weekly releases, instant player feedback.

Small party, big impact:

your ideas aren’t lost in the forest.

Creative room to roam:

if you can prototype it, you can pitch it.

How to Enter the Rabbit Hole

Send your CV plus a few lines on the trickiest front-end puzzle you’ve cracked (links to repos/demos welcome). If you’ve ever made a micro-interaction feel like magic, we want to see it.

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Big Wave Digital 🌊

Since 1998, we’ve been the talent ally for Australia’s most imaginative tech \& gaming teams. Ready to pick

Door B

? Apply now and let’s make something wonderfully mad together.