Senior Frontend Engineer

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# Senior Front End Developer at Beyond Sports ## **Join Our Team as a Senior Front End Developer at Beyond Sports!** Are you passionate about building cutting-edge web interfaces, leading development squads, and creating digital products that capture the attention of millions of sports fans worldwide? At Beyond Sports, we don’t just visualize sports, we reinvent how fans experience them. Together with partners like NFL, NHL, FIFA, and Disney, we push the boundaries of real-time sports data, 3D graphics, and AI-driven storytelling across web and native mobile platforms. If you're an experienced Senior Front End Developer who excels as a Tech Lead, thrives on modern JavaScript and TypeScript architectures, and enjoys mentoring developers while driving high code quality, this is the perfect next step in your career. ## What Your Day Will Look Like As a Senior Front End Developer, you will have the opportunity to build and lead technical solutions that engage millions of sports fans globally, working with real-time sports data sources and modern front-end technologies to craft custom UI experiences. Working as an effective Tech Lead within a multi-disciplinary delivery squad, you'll bridge design, product, and engineering. One day you might be architecting component libraries, scoping technical requirements, and managing release pipelines across Dev, Staging, and Production environments. The next, you could be writing type-safe applications in TypeScript, optimizing web performance and accessibility, conducting code reviews, or establishing technical Guilds and Chapter initiatives to elevate development standards across the engineering team. You'll take real ownership of front-end delivery across your squad, driving clean code practices and communicating technical decisions clearly to internal teams and external client stakeholders. ## What We Value At Beyond Sports, we move fast, collaborate closely, and build things that haven't existed before. You'll fit right in if you: - Take pride in writing clean, scalable, maintainable code that functions flawlessly and is easily extended - Bring an effective Tech Lead mindset, taking ownership of squad delivery, release management, and task scoping - Possess a meticulous eye for detail, ensuring pixel-perfect translation of design into production UI - Enjoy sharing ideas, driving new technologies, and established best practices across the engineering chapter - Drive clear technical communication with cross-functional teams, clients, and external partners - Show a passion for continuous learning, taking your technical skills and domain expertise to an expert level - Elevate those around you by mentoring developers and establishing technical working groups or Guilds ## Your Background You don't need to tick every box, but we're generally looking for: **Expert Knowledge** - **Core Web Stack:** HTML5, CSS3, modern SASS/SCSS, responsive web architectures, and cross-browser/device testing and debugging - **TypeScript & JavaScript:** Deep fluency in TypeScript, modern vanilla JavaScript (ES6+), type safety principles, JSON data structures, and consuming REST/GraphQL APIs (GET/POST) - **Build & Versioning:** Advanced Git workflows, code management, build tools, and task automation - **Project Management:** Experience using Jira for ticket estimation, task assignment, and delivery tracking - **Documentation:** Proven track record of documenting front-end architectures, codebases, and integration guides **Competent / Working Knowledge** - Integration with third-party libraries and media services (e.g., video streaming providers, live data feeds) - Package managers and modern build systems (NPM, Webpack/Vite/Gulp) - Web performance optimization, Core Web Vitals, and responsive assets - Web accessibility guidelines (WCAG standards) - SEO considerations and technical implementation techniques **Leadership & Line Management (Optional / Desire-Based)** - Experience acting as a Tech Lead or Chapter Lead across front-end disciplines - Ability or interest in people management (e.g., conducting 1:1s, performance reviews, and career coaching) ## Why Level Up Your Career at Beyond Sports Fast-moving, creative, and innovative — that's our world. - **Massive Scale:** Build high-performance applications used by millions of global sports fans - **Technical Ownership:** Lead front-end architecture, drive modern toolsets, and manage release strategies - **Growth Culture:** Establish Guilds/Working Groups, lead Chapters, and continuously upgrade your tech stack - **Squad Autonomy:** Influence project scoping, task management, and squad delivery standards - **Real Collaboration:** Partner closely with creative directors, UX designers, product managers, and backend engineers