Join the Cake Team 🍰

‍Cake is on a mission to accelerate startup team motivation through equity, used by over 17,000 startups across 70+ countries. We’re looking for a Front-End Engineer who’s passionate about building intuitive, user-focused solutions and loves solving complex challenges with clean, efficient code. If you love solving complex challenges with clean, efficient code and want to shape a product that users love, let’s talk.

What you’ll do‍

• ‍Drive the front-end. Turn complex requirements into beautiful, functional designs and see your impact from day one.
• ‍Build high-performance UIs using vanilla JavaScript, React18, and CSS/SCSS, focusing on responsiveness and seamless UX.
• ‍Shape our product and see your work's impact on some of the most exciting startups in the world.
• ‍Own front-end architecture. Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver engaging, scalable solutions.
• ‍Innovate with modern tools and bespoke frameworks, always keeping great UX core.

Must haves

• 5 years experience with a technology driven software company (no ecommerce or boilerplate backgrounds sorry)
• Solid React experience, with custom reusable component based architectures.
• Proficiency in vanilla JavaScript, CSS/SCSS.
• Passion for clean, maintainable code: performance, testing (Cypress experience is a plus) and building responsive, mobile-first designs.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to tackle front-end challenges independently.
• You’re great at working with a distributed team, with limited meetings.

Why Cake?

• ‍‍Culture: Think lunchtime surfing and yoga, regular get-togethers – we value creative, healthy lifestyles and have a work-hard & enjoy life ethos. Join a team that’s hungry & humble, health-oriented, built on trust, with belief of strength in diversity.
• Benefits: Enjoy 5 weeks of annual leave, birthday leave, flexible remote work + your own equity compensation of course!
• Tooling: Macbooks, G-suite, Figma, Github/co-pilot, Linear, Sentry, Cypress, Amplitude, GCP. Must be in Australia, we have a beautiful office in Palm Beach, Gold Coast.
• Global team: Work alongside a tight-knit, mission-driven crew across US, Portugal and Australia.‍‍

Important. Studies show that women and people from other underrepresented groups tend to apply for roles only when they meet every qualification. But at Cake, we value diversity of experience and perspective, so if you’re excited about this role but don’t tick every box, we encourage you to tell us why your front end skills are excellent and apply anyway!