Frontend Developer

Engagement Details

Our client is a globally recognized leader in interactive entertainment, operating some of the most played online games in the world with hundreds of millions of players across multiple titles. Their frontend and client teams build the player-facing experiences, web platforms, and in-client interfaces that millions of people interact with every day. This is an opportunity to craft high-performance, polished interfaces at a scale very few products reach.

What You’ll Do:

• Build and maintain responsive, high-performance player-facing web and client interfaces.
• Translate design and product requirements into clean, maintainable, well-tested frontend code.
• Collaborate closely with backend engineers to define and consume APIs.
• Improve frontend performance, accessibility, and observability across the stack.
• Contribute to unit and integration testing, automated builds, and deployment tooling.
• Contribute to the frontend engineering discipline, shaping component standards, tooling, and best practices.

Availability: Full-time, based in Australia, with reasonable overlap with the client's core collaboration hours.

What’s in it for you?

1. Learn and evolve your skills using the latest and greatest technology tools in a rapidly growing company.
2. Learn from the best people around you. We constantly challenge the status quo and invent new ways of building a great product.
3. 100% remote. Work anywhere, whether it is remotely in the comfort of your home, in a shared co-working space, in an RV on the beach, or while being a nomad in another country.
4. Work on challenging problems, innovate, and positively impact many people's lives while having fun doing it.

Required Qualifications

• Upper-intermediate to fluent speaking and writing English. Able to have a real-time conversation.
• 5+ years of full-time hands-on frontend software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency with a modern frontend framework. We're open to a range, including React, Angular, or Vue.
• Strong command of TypeScript, plus modern JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Experience consuming RESTful APIs and working closely with backend services.
• Solid understanding of frontend performance, cross-browser behavior, and responsive design.
• Experience with testing, automated builds, and deployment workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and design teams.

Nice to Haves

1. Experience with real-time or high-traffic consumer-facing applications.
2. Prior experience in gaming, live-service, or interactive media.
3. Familiarity with build tooling, telemetry, and analytics pipelines.
4. Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are your typical clients?

The majority of our clients are venture-backed startups at the growth stage. Usually, at this stage, the company already achieved a product-market fit and is looking to expand rapidly. That’s where we bring the best engineering practices, strong architecture, the latest technologies, and consistent processes to help companies scale.

What is the length of your engagements?

Most of our long-term full-time engagements last multiple years. It allows you to evolve your career with the client company taking on more responsibilities.

What’s your company size?

The Right Balance team is 55+ engineers going to 75+ by the end of the year. The current client size team is 125+ people. The timing is great to be a part of a rapidly growing team making meaningful contributions.

What happens if the engagement is completed?

Most of our engagements are long-term in nature. That said, if the current engagement is ramping down, we’ll present you with more long-term opportunities to transition into.

What are your core values?

• Client First: we only win when our clients win. We treat client challenges as our own.
• Ownership: we embrace responsibility, taking on challenges, getting them to completion, and enjoying getting things done.
• Quality: we’re passionate about achieving quality outcomes by applying meticulous attention to detail.