Frontend Developer - Next.js & React

Job description

**About Legend** At Legend, we're building next-level player experiences. With 20+ years of proven success we’re the world's leading Sports and Gaming marketing company. Our people are our edge. 600+ sharp, ambitious Legends across 22+ countries who move fast, learn quickly and win together. Here growth isn’t a perk, it’s the standard. You’ll stretch, level-up and carve out a career as bold as the products we build. We celebrate wins and create experiences that people talk about for years - for our players & for each other. If you’re ready to shape the future of player experience and enjoy the ride while you do it, this is where you’ll thrive. **The Role:** We’re hiring a **Frontend Developer** to join our five-person team here at Legend. AI is part of how we build every day: exploring ideas, solving problems and shipping faster. You’ll bring the engineering judgement to turn that into great work. Working with **React and Next.js**, you’ll build live casino game trackers, ship new features and shape the pages our users rely on. Performance matters here. Speed, Core Web Vitals and SEO directly support our business. Small team. Visible impact**.** ### Your Impact: - Build and launch experiences for new live casino games, from statistics and big wins to betting strategy trackers. - Develop features across our React and Next.js platform, making thoughtful choices about rendering, state and performance. - Own the speed and Core Web Vitals of key pages. Organic traffic is central to our business, so performance and SEO are part of the job. - Work with APIs and live data feeds, including third-party data that can be unpredictable. - Partner closely with Product, Content, SEO and Analytics to decide what will make the biggest difference. - Use AI tools in your day-to-day work to explore ideas, solve problems and move faster while staying accountable for the result. Build, release and help run the product with your team. ### Why Legend? - Super smart colleagues to work alongside and learn from. - Engaging development opportunities at all levels. - Tailored flexibility for your work-life balance. - Annual discretionary bonus to reward your efforts. - Paid annual leave PLUS a well-deserved break to recharge your batteries during the festive season! Our offices are closed between Christmas and New Year's, allowing you to enjoy downtime without dipping into your annual allowance. - Exciting global Legend events, where we unite in person to ignite our shared passion and unveil the exciting strategies for the year ahead! Unlock your full potential by joining the Legend team. To support you on this journey, we provide an extensive array of global benefits, alongside local perks. ### What You'll Bring: - Experience in working on responsive web products with React and Next.js is essential - Understand the practical differences between server-side and client-side rendering. - Be comfortable consuming and shaping REST APIs - Be performance lead - Experience/knowledge with Technical SEO, Java, SpringBoot, MongoDB, Kafka, Kubernetes would be beneficial