Software Engineer (Front-end)

Melbourne | Full-time | 1–3 Years Experience

About the Opportunity

UCentric is exclusively partnering with a high-growth, Melbourne-based technology venture as they enter a pivotal expansion phase following a successful platform rollout. This organization is at the forefront of Australian-led innovation, now focusing on scaling its engineering capability to support complex product delivery and production readiness.

We are seeking an early-career Software Engineer (Frontend) who is eager to contribute to a live, high-performance production environment. This is an ideal role for an engineer with 1–3 years of experience who possesses strong Computer Science foundations and a genuine passion for engineering excellence.

Your Mission

You will build and maintain the frontend systems that turn a complex model into a seamless, trustworthy product. This includes creating on-brand, aesthetic, yet functional UIs with UX at the center of every design decision. You will work on everything from real-time streaming tokens to safety-focused UX workflows.

What You’ll Actually Do

• Master Streaming UX. Implement fast, reliable streaming for model outputs, handling real-time tokens, partial results, and retries.
• Design for Trust. Create UI workflows that support safe and responsible AI use, such as reporting and content handling.
• Performance Engineering. Optimize the application for latency, bundle size, and perceived responsiveness.
• Operational Tooling. Build internal dashboards to track usage, quality signals, and feedback triage.
• Collaborate Across the Stack. Work closely with backend and infra teams to integrate APIs, auth, and observability.

The Kind of Person Who Will Thrive

We use an uplifting, encouraging, and authoritative tone, and we look for engineers who reflect these values. You are someone who:

• Cares deeply about Quality, has an eye for aesthetic UI, and an instinct for edge cases that appear in production.
• Driven by Curiosity, eager to learn how AI systems behave with real users.
• Thinks Architecturally, building clean, maintainable frontend systems rather than one-off screens.
• Remains calm under Pressure, has strong debugging instincts, and stays focused when complex systems break.

Technical Skills & Experience

• Experience: 1–3 years of experience building production-grade software.
• Tech Stack: Proficiency in TypeScript and modern frontend tooling (component architecture, state management).
• Real-time Systems: Experience with SSE or WebSockets for streaming experiences is a plus.
• Foundations: Strong Computer Science or software engineering fundamentals.

Why Apply? This is a rare opportunity to work at the heart of the full AI stack—from data and training to infrastructure and operations. You will be part of a small, high-impact team that treats product quality and reliability as core components of the intelligence system itself.

How to Apply: If you want to build the product surface of a model trained from scratch and ship it to real users, we want to hear from you. Feel free to apply here or email at [email protected]

Please include a link to your portfolio or GitHub within your CV.

Note: This is a full-time role based in Melbourne. Applicants must have existing and unrestricted work rights in Australia.