Senior Software Engineer, Frontend

Sorare, SAS; Paris (TX); Hybrid; USD 91,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellness benefits

Commuter benefits

Latest tech equipment

Lunch vouchers

Paid holidays

Job summary

Sorare in Paris is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to craft officially licensed digital sport cards that connect fans worldwide. You’ll architect and develop delightful experiences for our users, shipping high-quality features across web and mobile.

You will work with React and TypeScript, production GraphQL, and AI-assisted workflows to drive performance, speed, and maintainability while collaborating with product managers, designers, and backend engineers. Hybrid work.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of frontend engineering experience shipping high-traffic consumer web products.
• Hands-on experience with React and TypeScript.
• Production experience with GraphQL.
• Strong web performance focus: fast load times and mobile smoothness.
• Fluent English and French communication, both written and spoken.
• Ability to ship quickly, measure outcomes, and iterate.
• Bias for simplicity with strong attention to detail.
• Autonomous, pragmatic, entrepreneurial, and collaborative.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship web features used weekly by hundreds of thousands of fans.
• Drive projects from inception to launch.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers and backend engineers.
• Use AI as a productivity multiplier in PR workflows.
• Prioritize performance and mobile experience, maintaining quality.
• Help shape the web strategy, including mobile considerations.

Skills

React

TypeScript

GraphQL

Web performance

English & French

Job description

At Sorare, we want to hire passionate and innovative people! Are you looking for an empowering environment to grow professionally and personally? Join us in this tremendous adventure!

Our Mission

Sorare is a fantasy sports gaming experience and marketplace featuring officially licensed digital player cards. With Sorare you build legacy teams – buying, selling, collecting and trading player cards -- and compete with them in free-to-play fantasy games to win rewards week over week and season over season, just like a professional sports owner.

Sorare is revolutionizing digital sports fandom, and now has over 5 million users across 180 countries. More than 300 iconic teams, clubs, and organizations including the Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, MLS, NBA, NBPA, MLB, MLBPA, and many others have partnered with Sorare to build the next sports entertainment giant.

Our Journey

Sorare was founded by Nicolas Julia and Adrien Montfort in 2018 in Paris to bring sports fans across the globe closer to the players, teams, and leagues they love.

With 60-plus employees in France, Sorare is one of Europe’s fastest-growing startups and recently raised a $680 million Series B funding round from world-class investors including SoftBank, Accel, and Benchmark. Sorare also has athletes Serena Williams, Zinedine Zidane, Rio Ferdinand, Antoine Griezmann, Gerard Piqué, Blake Griffin, and Rudy Gobert among its investors, ambassadors, and advisors.

Our Values

• Own your game: Think and act like an owner, and expect your teammates to do the same. You are an “entrepreneur” empowered to make decisions and own the outcomes.

• Build with the fans, and for the fans: Have an obsession for high-quality user experiences. Engage our community with transparency to build trust and learn from the fans to deliver effective changes.

• Win as a team: We are all in this together as one team, win or lose. Inspire your teammates to always be better.

Please note that Sorare is a hybrid work company; employees are required to be in office 3 days a week.

Sorare is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to join the team. We craft officially licensed digital sport cards that connect hundreds of thousands of fans to their favorite athletes every week, and we're growing the team to reach the millions to come.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll architect and develop delightful experiences for our fans, fueling their passion where fantasy meets live sport.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship web features used weekly by hundreds of thousands of sport fans worldwide

• Drive projects from inception to launch

• Work with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to execute on our roadmap, owning metrics and outcomes

• Use AI as a productivity multiplier (60% of our PRs with AI-assisted workflows)

• Care deeply about performance, mobile experience, and maintainability

• Help shape our web strategy, mobile included

Skills and requirements

• You have 5+ years of frontend engineering experience with a clear track record of shipping high-traffic consumer web products

• Hands-on experience with React and TypeScript

• Production experience working with GraphQL

• A real feel for web performance: load times, smoothness on mobile, degraded networks

• You have fluent spoken and written communication skills in English and French

• Comfort with speed: you ship fast, measure success, iterate

• Bias for simplicity: you solve complex problems with simple solutions

• Attention to detail: you strive for high quality from top to bottom, without confusing craftsmanship with perfectionism

• Autonomous, pragmatic, and entrepreneurial: you take ownership of outcomes, make decisions with imperfect information, and drive projects forward without hand-holding

• You are a team player who collaborates with empathy and respect
  

Nice to have

• An appetite for backend work or for native mobile. Our needs shift from one period to the next, and we're looking for someone who isn't locked into a single platform.

Perks

• Health Care: Great medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage fully covered by Sorare

• Wellness Benefit: Sorare contributes to employees wellness (gym membership and sports classes in our office)

• Commuter Benefits: Sorare contributes to the cost of your commute with 100% of Navigo pass reimbursed

• Latest Tech: Sorare provides equipment such as laptop, monitor, etc.

• Lunch: Sorare will contribute to their employees lunch vouchers

• Time Off: we offer 5 weeks of paid holidays per year in addition to the national holidays and attached RTT

Where you will work

• Based in our Paris office

• Hybrid setup: up to 2 days of remote work per week

Our Hiring Process

• Step 1: Hiring Manager Screen (25 min)

• Step 2: Tech Lead Screen

• Step 3: Case Study + Panel interviews

• Step 4: Reference Check

• Step 5: CEO call & Offer

Sorare is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to: race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

As we are an international company, please note we speak English in the workplace. Please apply for the role with an English CV so we can process your application.