Senior Front End Developer

Salary: $120,000 – $125,000 per year

Role Description

July 2026

Overview

Litmaps builds web-based visualisation and search tools for scientists and researchers. Our mission is to accelerate impactful science: we believe we can improve outcomes for the world by improving the rate of breakthroughs and new technologies by scientists and engineers. To do this we’re building a modern research platform that’s intuitive, concise, collaborative, and promotes the accessibility of knowledge.

As a Senior Front End Developer, you’ll interpret product specifications and
technical designs, build and modify the code for our front end applications, translate business
requirements into technical specifications, and test and document your work, while helping
shape the practices of a small, fast-moving team.

Our web-app is an awesome challenge to work on: it’s highly interactive, requires a complex layer of state management, and performant real-time visualisations.

About Us

We’re a team of eleven based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, New Zealand, with remote team members spread around the country (and the world). We enjoy the tight-knit size of our team and the flexibility it affords us. We collaborate openly across disciplines and pick up all sorts of pieces of work that aren’t traditional for our job descriptions! We’ve been in business for 8 years and look forward to many more to come.

Main tasks

• Interpret product specifications, technical designs, and flow charts to develop production
  releases for our product updates and new products

• Research, evaluate, and design lightweight code testing processes~~; identify technology
  limitations and deficiencies in our existing front end systems and processes~~

• Build, maintain, and modify code across the entire front end codebase: from API
  systems to component libraries and style systems

• Test, debug, and diagnose errors and faults within established quality standards, and
  maintain code quality processes like source control strategies

• Write and maintain technical documentation for the systems and features you build

Secondary tasks

• Coordinate, mentor, and grow a small front end development team

• Run R&D experiments alongside other team members

• Provide advice and guidance on front end tooling, framework, and software choices

Skills

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, and at least 5 years’ relevant front end development experience

• High degree of expertise with React and Typescript

• Intimate familiarity with vanilla javascript, HTML, and CSS

• Demonstrated ability to design and build performant and extensible front end systems for single-page apps

• Experience with real-time graphics performance, particularly with HTML Canvas or WebGL

• Experience with state-heavy single-page web applications

• Experience growing small teams of front end developers

• Proficiency with Figma

Salary

$120k NZD / year

Hours

9am - 5:30pm, Mon - Fri

We enjoy having all Wellington staff in-office 2-3 days per week, with flexibility to work from home.

How to Apply

Think you’d be a good fit for the role and for our team? We’d love to hear from you, apply through the website or send us an email at careers@litmaps.com. Please include a CV and cover letter in PDF format telling us about awesome projects you’ve worked on and why you’d be a great fit for this role! Please reference the skills section in the JD, we would like to hear about what you did that shows those skills.

At Litmaps we are always looking to hire the best talent and recognise that diversity in our experiences and backgrounds makes us stronger. To reduce unconscious bias in our recruitment we will redact names, gender, age, and any other information which may prime us from your application in the long listing process. Due to this, please do not contact individual team members about your application. If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please send an email to careers@litmaps.com.