Lead Front End Developer

ScorePlay; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A sports media company in Germany seeks a Lead Front End Developer to lead the front-end development team. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in React and TypeScript, showcasing leadership and collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams. Responsibilities include end-to-end feature ownership and contributing to the tech roadmap while ensuring high-performance user interfaces. Competitive compensation is offered for this senior role.

Qualifikationen

• Minimum 5 years building production React/TypeScript applications.
• Demonstrated mentorship and code-review leadership.
• Experience collaborating with product and marketing teams.

Aufgaben

• Lead front-end development and mentor junior developers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build intuitive user interfaces.
• Implement design workflows ensuring pixel-perfect execution.

Kenntnisse

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

HTML

CSS

AWS

GitHub CI/CD

Ausbildung

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Jest

Cypress

Datadog

Jobbeschreibung

As the Lead Front End Developer at ScorePlay, you will play a pivotal role in leading the front-end development efforts within our small development team. Reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), you will work collaboratively with a cross-disciplinary team of developers and designers to build and enhance front-end interfaces for our sports media platform. This is a senior-level position that requires expertise in front-end technologies, collaboration with product and marketing teams, and a strong understanding of cloud technology.

Clear Scope & Ownership

• End-to-End Feature Ownership: You’ll own front-end features delivered by the CORE MAM feature team (one of three cross-functional squads). From initial requirements and UI/UX mocks through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-release monitoring, you’ll be the single point of accountability.

• Tech Roadmap Contribution: Partner with the CTO and your peers to shape our front-end roadmap—choosing patterns for our component library, defining performance budgets, and setting standards for code reuse and modularity.

Key Responsibilities

1. Senior Development Position

   • Serve as a senior member of the development team (2 engineers for now), providing technical leadership and guidance in front-end development best practices, tools, and technologies.

   • Mentor junior developers, conduct code reviews, and ensure code quality and adherence to coding standards.

2. Front-End Development

   • Utilize your expertise in front-end technologies, including React, Redux, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, to develop responsive and intuitive user interfaces for our sports media platform.

   • Collaborate closely with product and marketing teams to translate design concepts and requirements into functional front-end solutions.

3. Cross-Functional Collaboration

   • Work closely with back-end developers to ensure seamless integration and functionality across ScorePlay's product portfolio.

   • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to deliver a high-quality customer experience that meets business objectives and user needs.

4. Design Interpretation and Implementation

   • Interpret design workflows and examples provided by our design team, then implement them within ScorePlay's environment, ensuring pixel-perfect execution and adherence to design guidelines.

5. Testing and Debugging

   • Test and debug your own code, as well as others', to ensure functionality, performance, and reliability across different browsers, devices, and screen sizes.

6. Product Architecture and Improvement

   • Understand our product architecture and suggest improvements to enhance performance, scalability, and maintainability.

   • Stay up-to-date with front-end development trends, tools, and technologies, and recommend relevant updates and enhancements to our tech stack.

7. Cloud Technology

   • Apply your solid understanding of cloud technology, particularly AWS, to leverage cloud services and infrastructure for front-end development and deployment.

Deep Technical Expectations

• TypeScript & Modern CSS: Ship type-safe React code in TypeScript, leveraging CSS Modules or Styled-Components for scoped, maintainable styles.

• Build & Deploy:

  • Vite for fast builds and local dev feedback loops.

  • GitHub CI/CD powered by GitHub Actions: you’ll author workflows that lint, test, bundle, and deploy.

  • AWS S3 + CloudFront CDN hosting—optimize cache headers and invalidation strategies.

• Testing Discipline:

  • Unit Tests with Jest and React Testing Library.

  • E2E/Integration tests using Cypress or Playwright.

  • Maintain > 90% front-end code coverage, with failing builds on regression.

• Performance & Observability:

  • Write lean, lazy-loaded bundles and tree-shakable components.

  • Instrument and troubleshoot every feature with the full Datadog suite (RUM, Synthetics, Logs, APM) - which we use across the board of the engineering team-

  • Set, monitor and own SLIs/SLOs for front-end latency and error rates.

• Multi-Context Delivery:

  • Author high-performance code that runs both in our customer-facing React web app and within our proprietary Adobe panel integration.

Leadership & Process

• Agile Best Practices: Drive refinement, estimation, and sprint planning for the Core MAM feature team. Champion CI/CD and trunk-based development.

• Mentorship & Guilds: Conduct regular code reviews, host “lunch-and-learn” workshops, and steward a Front-End Guild to evangelize best practices across all squads.

• DevOps Culture: Partner with our infrastructure and backend engineers on feature flagging (e.g. ConfigCat) and on-call rotations to rapidly detect and remediate incidents.

Must-Haves

• ≥ 5 years building production React/TypeScript applications

• Demonstrated mentorship and code-review leadership

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• Proven experience as a front-end developer, with expertise in React, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

• Proven experience in a A-Grade B2B Start-Up

• Experience collaborating with product and marketing teams to deliver high-quality customer experiences.

• Experience with cloud technology, particularly AWS, is preferred.

• Adobe CEP extensions or panel SDK experience is a great nice-to-have