Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Employment Hero operates in the HR and payroll SaaS category, where product quality and reliability directly affect day to day operations for customer businesses. A frontend role in this space tends to sit close to core workflows, with meaningful constraints around performance, accessibility, and trust. The listing also signals an AI first engineering approach, which is becoming a differentiator in how established SaaS companies ship and iterate.
For a SaaS focused engineering career, this kind of position builds durable experience in scaling user facing surfaces that serve a broad customer base across multiple markets. It naturally develops judgement around incremental delivery, instrumentation, and web performance, alongside the practicalities of CI/CD and testing in production systems. The emphasis on contributing to technical direction also aligns with the way mature SaaS teams distribute ownership beyond a single lead.
This role suits an engineer who prefers clear accountability for frontend outcomes and is comfortable collaborating across a globally distributed setup. It will fit someone who enjoys balancing product iteration with engineering fundamentals, and who wants to deepen React and TypeScript expertise while staying open to a wider full stack scope over time.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Who we are
Employment Hero is on a mission to make employment easier and more valuable for everyone. Our Employment Operating System brings hiring, HR, payroll and benefits into an all-in-one solution.
Since our inception in 2014, we’ve scaled to a $2 billion valuation and gained a presence in 6 countries globally - Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, the UK and Canada. We now service over 300,000 businesses and more than 2 million employees.
As a Frontend Engineer at Employment Hero, you will
- Build and scale product experiences used by thousands of businesses globally
- Take ownership of frontend delivery in a fast-moving, high-performance environment
- Work in an AI-first engineering culture, leverage AI and agentic ways of working to move faster and solve problems more effectively
- Contribute to product and technical direction within a collaborative, remote-first team
- Continuously raise the bar on how we build, from code quality to delivery speed and product impact
Who you are
To thrive at Employment Hero, you’ll need to embody The EH Way, operating with focus, agility, and an obsession with impact. For this role, you’ll also bring
- 5+ years in Frontend Engineering with ownership of production systems
- Strong in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and modern build tools
- Experience with CI/CD and web performance optimization
- Solid understanding of testing, engineering fundamentals, and Agile
- Strong English communication for global collaboration
- AI-first and agentic mindset, leveraging AI to improve delivery
- High ownership, fast execution, adaptable in high-change environments
- Open to expanding beyond frontend towards Fullstack
- Proactive, able to challenge and contribute in a high-performance team
What we can offer
At Employment Hero, we don’t just talk about a better way to work - we live it. Joining Employment Hero means
- You will work remotely, with the flexibility to own your time and impact
- You will access cutting-edge tools to amplify your work, knowledge and outputs
- You’ll surround yourself with ambitious, outcome-driven colleagues who challenge you to do the best work of your life
- You’ll own ESOP (employee share options) in one of the world’s fastest-growing tech companies
- You’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits that includes - a very generous paternity leave policy, subsidised egg freezing (so you can make the choice that’s right for you, on your terms), a WFH office expense budget, and outstanding learning & development opportunities
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Employment Hero celebrates diverse perspectives and experiences, we invite people of all backgrounds and identities to apply for this position.