Frontend Team Lead

About CORTO

We are CORTO, a cutting-edge software company dedicated to revolutionising the legal industry. Our mission is to empower legal practitioners with AI-driven solutions that streamline their workflow, boost productivity, and provide more efficient client service.

Our team of AI experts and engineers collaborate to develop intelligent software tailored to the unique needs of lawyers, paralegals, and legal assistants.

Our innovative AI solutions automate routine tasks, simplify document management, and enhance decision-making, allowing legal professionals to focus on what they do best—providing expert legal counsel.

We’re rapidly scaling from 80 to 150+ employees, with a highly technical workforce where around 90% of the team are developers and engineers. Working alongside our Sydney-based team of passionate high achievers, you’ll join a fast-growing technology business where things rarely stay the same for long - and if you’re smart, caring, and ambitious, you’ll be in great company.

Meet the CORTO Accounting Frontend team

You’ll lead the Frontend Engineering team responsible for building and evolving CORTO’s legal accounting products.

This team sits at the intersection of greenfield AI-driven features and the re-imagining of core accounting workflows - including timesheets, billing, payments, and financial reporting.

We operate in a low-bureaucracy, high-ownership environment, where engineers are trusted to shape both the how and the what. As we scale, we’re investing in stronger technical leadership to ensure we maintain speed without sacrificing quality or cohesion.

What You’ll Do

As Frontend Team Lead, you’ll be responsible for the health, velocity, and technical direction of the frontend team.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You’ll split your time between:

• Supporting and growing engineers
• Driving delivery and execution
• Setting technical direction and standards
  
  

You’ll work closely with the Principal Engineer (currently the existing lead) to evolve the architecture and long-term strategy, while taking ownership of day-to-day team leadership and delivery outcomes.

Lead the Team

• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of frontend engineers
• Run regular 1:1s, provide feedback, and support career development
• Foster a strong, collaborative, and accountable team culture
  
  

Own Frontend Delivery

• Ensure consistent, predictable delivery across projects
• Work with Product and Design to plan, scope, and prioritise work
• Remove blockers and keep the team focused on outcomes
  
  

Drive Technical Standards

• Establish and enforce best practices across React, TypeScript, and frontend architecture
• Maintain high standards for performance, accessibility, and code quality
• Guide decisions around state management, data fetching, and UI architecture
  
  

Collaborate Across Teams

• Partner with backend engineers to ensure clean API design and integration
• Work closely with Design to deliver high-quality user experiences
• Align with Principal Engineers and other leads on broader system direction
  
  

Scale the Frontend Function

• Improve development workflows, CI/CD, and release processes
• Contribute to hiring and onboarding new engineers
• Help evolve the team structure as we grow
  
  

To Make This Happen, You Will

• Help lead development of applications using React, Next.js, Electron, Tailwind and TypeScript
• Own and evolve our frontend architecture
• Improve performance, reliability, and maintainability across the codebase
• Introduce and refine patterns for state management, data fetching, and component design
• Drive better observability and debugging practices for frontend applications
• Champion incremental improvements over large rewrites
  
  

What You’ll Bring

• 6+ years of frontend engineering experience
• Strong expertise in React and TypeScript
• Experience with modern React frameworks (Next.js preferred)
• Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers
• Strong understanding of frontend architecture and scalable UI systems
• Experience working in cross-functional product teams
• Ability to balance technical quality with delivery pragmatism
  
  

Nice to have

• Experience with Electron
• Exposure to AI or data-heavy applications
• Familiarity with building or scaling team processes from scratch
• Experience with design systems or component libraries
  
  

You Are The Type Of Person Who

• Enjoys helping other engineers succeed as much as writing code
• Brings structure and clarity to ambiguous problems
• Balances speed and quality without being dogmatic
• Communicates clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Takes ownership and follows through
  
  

CORTO is an inclusive, people-first company committed to breaking down institutional barriers that keep people from reaching their potential. If you meet some, but not all the requirements above, we encourage you to still submit your application.

Why join CORTO?

• Your work matters. We solve real world problems that improve and support local, everyday law firms. So they can do their best work for the people in the communities they serve.
• Make an impact. You won’t be another ‘cog in the wheel’ here. We give full trust and autonomy for you to be heard, to work on big & complex projects – and to make a real difference.
• Work with a group of authentic, passionate people who love what they do.
• Well-funded and global. CORTO is part of ATI Global – one of the largest international LegalTech companies.
• Flexible and hybrid working. We engage, share, and collaborate on ideas and workflows.
• Career and learning opportunities - we move fast and need smart people to get us where we're going. We are a scaling business and looking for people who want to grow with us.
• Have fun with us. Celebrations. Socials. Sports teams. Access to sailing and yacht events.
• We value your well-being with additional time off, gym membership and other perks.
• Fast-paced tech environment, if we don't disrupt ourselves someone else will do it!
• Access to LEAP Home - a program unique to the ATI Group to support you in buying your primary residence.