Frontend Engineer - Design System

Be part of the team transforming global travel experiences!

Luxury Escapes is one of the world’s fastest-growing travel websites, with over 8 million members, recently winning the National Travel Industry Award for Most Outstanding Online Travel Agency! We are growing rapidly & seeking a Frontend Engineer - Design System, to join the Luxury Escapes team!

Working at Luxury Escapes

Our mission is to delight our customers with incredible deals for the world's best holidays. We are a collective of forward-thinking people, driven to challenge the travel industry and ourselves to bring outstanding travel experiences to our customer community.

** Luxury Escapes is an in-person company. We work and collaborate together, face to face in our Barangaroo office.**

About the team

Our cross-functional teams include Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers focused on delivering solutions and solving problems rather than simply completing tickets.

The structure is flat, and the process is lean, with a culture of MVP, iteration, and "build, measure, learn" at the heart of everything we do. We share in-depth experience in Node/ Typescript, React, PostgreSQL, AWS SQS, SNS, S3 Lambda, and more.

As the Frontend Engineer for Design Systems, you’ll take ownership of evolving our LuxKit Design System, shaping its future and ensuring it evolves to meet the needs of our growing business.

You’ll play a key role in maintaining consistency across our products, improving workflows between design and engineering, and making sure our design system is intuitive and scalable.

Working closely with our dedicated Design System designer, you’ll drive collaboration to ensure LuxKit is a powerful, flexible tool that enhances both our design process and the final customer experience. 

Our team members value engineering excellence, and as part of your role, you'll have dedicated time to focus on pushing the boundaries of engineering quality and development experience.

If you are a dynamic and driven Frontend Engineer with proven experience working on Design Systems, we invite you to join us in our mission to elevate luxury travel.

What you'll do

• Take ownership of the end-to-end build of our Design System - LuxKit!
• Collaborate closely with the dedicated designer to ensure smooth integration of design components into the codebase.
• Maintain documentation for utilising and implementing components
• Promote adoption of the design system throughout engineering teams
• Explore and promote best practices in working with LuxKit and Figma
• Partner with the delivery teams to plan and coordinate LuxKit initiatives in alignment with roadmap objectives
• Apply best practices and industry standards for software development, such as agile methodologies, test-driven development, and continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD).
• Monitor system performance and reliability
• Proactively identify and resolve issues to ensure maximum uptime and customer satisfaction
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior software engineers
• Participate in code reviews & other quality assurance activities to ensure high-quality software delivery.

Relevant Skills

• Proficiency in JavaScript and its frameworks, including React, Node.js and Typescript.
• Familiarity with RESTful API design principles and implementation.
• Experience in automated testing and continuous integration processes.
• Knowledge and experience working with microservices architecture.

What's in it for you?

• We consider our people one of our most important assets – and we want our team to love their working lives! When you work for Luxury Escapes, you can look forward to:
• Excellent Remuneration package
• 20% Discount on Luxury Holidays and Experiences
• Breakfast and lunch are provided 5-days a week
• Annual Hackathons!
• 1/2 day birthday leave
• A super collaborative team that enjoys creating great platforms

If you’re interested in the role but don't check every box, apply anyway, we’d love to hear from you (...being Sydney-based is the only non-negotiable!)

We embrace diversity in our people and make hiring decisions based on your experiences and skills. We do not discriminate based on gender identity, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. You'll find a collaborative, inclusive, and respectful workplace here at Luxury Escapes, and we are proud to celebrate who you are. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview.

We are a 2025 Circle Back Initiative Employer, committing to responding to every applicant.