Join the Global Pioneer of Predictive Demand Intelligence

At PredictHQ, we’re redefining how businesses forecast demand by eliminating blind spots caused by unforeseen, event-driven disruptions. As the leader in predictive demand intelligence, our AI-powered platform helps companies master predictability - empowering them to optimise inventory, staffing, pricing, and marketing by understanding not just what events are happening, but why they matter.

From concerts and sports games to unexpected weather events and airport disruptions, we track and forecast the impact of millions of real-world events across the world. Our platform leverages cutting-edge machine learning to create high-quality, forecast-grade data to deliver actionable insights via powerful APIs and an intuitive web app. The result? Businesses can anticipate demand spikes and dips with unmatched accuracy and agility.

Our dynamic models adapt to changing conditions in real time, allowing customers to make smarter, faster decisions. That’s why industry giants like Domino’s, Uber, Expedia, and IHG rely on PredictHQ to stay ahead of demand and turn unpredictability into opportunity.

Founded in 2016 and backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures, and Aspect Ventures, PredictHQ has offices in Auckland and San Francisco.

Our Values

PredictHQ is about teamwork to achieve huge things. We are building innovative and complex products, so our empathetic, hard-working culture is key to our success. We are proactive in helping our teammates grow and thrive in their careers, as well as making sure everyone can put their family and friends first.

Job Purpose 🛠️

As a Lead Frontend Engineer in our R&D team, you’ll lead the frontend technical direction within significant product initiatives that evolve PredictHQ’s platform and help customers get to value faster.

You’ll shape frontend architecture and user experience approaches early in initiatives, working closely with engineers, data scientists, product, design, senior architects, and the CTO. Much of your work will be customer-facing, building intuitive, data-rich interfaces where correctness, clarity, and performance directly affect customer decisions.

Alongside delivering complex frontend work yourself, you’ll guide how the frontend system evolves as the product grows - establishing patterns, influencing architectural decisions, and helping raise the engineering bar through mentorship, code reviews, and technical leadership.

You’ll be working within a global business trusted by some of the world’s most recognisable brands, contributing to a mature product used to make real commercial decisions while helping shape the future of the platform’s frontend architecture.

Key Responsibilities 🔑

• Lead frontend delivery within significant product initiatives, owning major areas of the frontend system end-to-end.

• Shape technical approaches and user experience decisions early in initiatives, contributing to solution design and direction.

• Help define initiative scope and make pragmatic technical and UX trade-offs to deliver strong outcomes within fixed delivery windows.

• Guide the evolution of frontend architecture, applications, and components so they remain understandable and maintainable as the product grows.

• Collaborate closely with Product and Design, helping translate product ideas and designs into clear, workable frontend solutions.

• Build intuitive, data-rich interfaces where correctness and clarity are critical to customer decisions.

• Ensure frontend work performs reliably at scale and supports customers in making high-impact decisions.

• Improve shared frontend systems, patterns, and component libraries when it materially improves clarity, maintainability, consistency, or delivery speed.

• Raise the engineering bar through mentorship, code reviews, pairing, and thoughtful technical feedback.

Skills, Knowledge and Competencies ⭐️

• Experience building data-rich interfaces where correctness, clarity, and usability directly influence customer decisions.

• Strong experience designing and evolving modular, stateful UIs using TypeScript-first frameworks (Vue preferred, React acceptable, Nuxt useful).

• Experience guiding frontend architectural decisions and establishing patterns that improve system clarity and team velocity.

• Strong understanding of modern frontend fundamentals, particularly TypeScript, component-driven development, browser behaviour, and scalable styling approaches.

• Ability to understand complex business rules and represent them clearly and correctly in frontend systems and interfaces.

• Experience shaping technical approaches within product initiatives, helping bring clarity and direction when requirements are still evolving.

• Awareness of frontend security best practices when building customer-facing applications, including safe handling of data, authentication flows, and common web vulnerabilities.

• Comfortable collaborating across disciplines, particularly with Product, Data Science, and Design.

• Able to quickly build context in unfamiliar systems or technologies and apply sound engineering judgment when adopting new tools.

• Bonus: experience with design or UX, or a strong appreciation for usability, accessibility, and visual clarity in complex interfaces.

General ⚙️

• Applicants for this position must have New Zealand residency or a valid New Zealand work visa.

• Ensure that all activities are conducted in accordance with internal policies and procedures, applicable legislation, rules and standards, including relevant Acts, Advertising Standards Authority rules and regulations, and industry body requirements.

• Based in Auckland, this role follows our hybrid approach - combining the flexibility of working from home with one to two days a week in the office to foster team connection and collaboration.

Benefits 💛

• Health Insurance.

• Paid Birthday Leave and Paid Family and Friends Day Leave.

• Strong focus on your training and development.

• 10 weeks of fully paid parental leave.

• Flexible work arrangements.

• A hybrid work environment centred on collaboration, agility and fun.

• Options in a fast-growing company.

• $500 annual stipend to support your work-from-home setup.