Frontend Engineer

Posted Feb 17

Sporty's sites are some of the most popular on the internet, consistently staying in Alexa's list of top websites for the countries they operate in

In this role, you’ll be responsible for developing mobile-first, responsive front ends that are used millions of times per day. We wrote our frontend from scratch in VueJS about 3 years ago, so you’ll be working with the latest technology instead of wrangling with decades-old spaghetti code. 

A willingness to work in VueJS is fine - as long as you are willing to learn and have demonstrable experience in a similar frontend framework.

Our Stack (we don't expect you to have all of these)

Vue + Vuex + Vue Router + Webpack + Less + SCSS

Element UI

FreeMarker

AWS, Circle, Drone CI, K8s

Responsibilities

  1. Develop mobile-first frontends in VueJS
  2. Focus on performance and user experience
  3. Create frontends for the backend management systems
  4. Participate in code reviews with peers and managers to ensure that each increment adheres to original vision as described in the user story and all standard resource libraries and architecture patterns as appropriate
  5. Participate in team ceremonies including planning, grooming, product demonstrations, and team retrospectives
  6. Mentoring less experienced team members

Requirements

  • Minimum of 3+ Years within a relevant role
  • Familiarity with at least one: Vue, React, Angular
  • Familiarity with Git, ES6, Webpack, Less or Sass, and NodeJS
  • Familiarity with state management like Vuex, Redux, Ngrx
  • Excellent communication skills 
  • Knowledge of backend stack is a plus

Benefits

  • Quarterly and flash bonuses
  • We have core hours of 10am-3pm in a local timezone, but flexible hours outside of this
  • Top-of-the-line equipment
  • Referral bonuses
  • 28 days paid annual leave
  • Annual company retreat - we all went to Thailand & Dubai together in 2023 and we aim to have 2 more trips in 2024!
  • Highly talented, dependable co-workers in a global, multicultural organisation
  • Payment via DEEL, a world class online wallet system 
  • Our teams are small enough for you to be impactful
  • Our business is globally established and successful, offering stability and security to our Team Members

Our Mission

Our mission is to be an everyday entertainment platform for everyone

Our Operating Principles

1. Create Value for Users

2. Act in the Long-Term Interests of Sporty 

3. Focus on Product Improvements & Innovation 

4. Be Responsible 

5. Preserve Integrity & Honesty 

6. Respect Confidentiality & Privacy 

7. Ensure Stability, Security & Scalability 

8. Work Hard with Passion & Pride

Interview Process

  • 30 min HackerRank Test 
  • Remote video screening + ID check with our Talent Acquisition Team 
  • Remote 90 min video interview loop with 3 x Team Members (30 mins each)
  • ID Check Via Zinc & 2 references from previous employers
  • 24-72 hour feedback loops throughout process

Working at Sporty

The top-down mentality at Sporty is high performance based, meaning we trust you to do your job with an emphasis on support to help you achieve, grow and de-block any issues when they're in your way.

Generally employees can choose their own hours, as long as they are collaborating and doing stand-ups etc. The emphasis is really on results. 

As we are a highly structured and established company we are able to offer the security and support of a global business with the allure of a startup environment. Sporty is independently managed and financed, meaning we don’t have arbitrary shareholder or VC targets to cater to. 

We literally build, spend and make decisions based on the ethos of building THE best platform of its kind. We are truly a tech company to the core and take excellent care of our Team Members.