front end engineer Remote
Job description
About Us
StatsBomb was founded in January 2017 to provide data, analytics and consultancy to football teams, media and gambling companies, and has grown into a global multi-sports data and analytics SAAS provider.
StatsBomb are well known in the sports analytics industry for providing unique insights into the game of soccer and have developed a strong brand synonymous with highest quality and accuracy of data coupled with excellent customer service and support.
Our core products are data and analytics tools, with a tech stack that includes computer vision, machine learning, stream processing, and web-based dataviz. We currently create B2B products for Soccer and American Football, with strong vision to expand to additional sports.
From our origins as a blog pre 2017, StatsBomb have always had a strong foothold in the football analytics community and education remains a constant feature of both our products and our customer support ethos.
StatsBomb is an inspiring place to work. Our vision is clear - to be the world's leading sports data company - and we have a driven and dedicated management team to get us there, including the original founders, and headed by CEO Ted Knutson.
Our culture is open, honest, transparent, supportive and driven. Our employees are dedicated, motivated and genuinely love their work as well as the people they work with.
About The Role
You will be joining a remote team including other software engineers, UI designers, 3D designers and a project manager to develop new products to support American Football. You will be working in an Agile environment, and you will also share best practice and insights with other product teams at StatsBomb. You will have access to industry leading senior engineers to help develop and hone your development skills as well as other leading technology disciplines such as Computer Vision, machine learning, database management, data streaming and many others.
We are a fast growing company, with an incredibly full roadmap and are therefore looking for someone who is driven, self-motivated, flexible and comfortable working at a fast pace delivering new functionality on a regular basis.
As well as having the required technical skills, communication is a critical skill especially as the team will be largely remote, so sharing progress and working collaboratively online will be a vital part of the role. The working culture at StatsBomb is creative, collaborative, open, and informal whilst maintaining high standards in working ethos and coding best practice. Attention to detail and ensuring our products are accessible to all users are critical to all front end development and we are looking for someone who is as happy perfecting the finer UI details as they are experimenting and testing new software.
Job Responsibilities
- Work with designers and SMEs to develop front-end features
- Document new features, research, and user feedback
- Make contributions to the StatsBomb shared components library
- Being an active participant in code reviews/pull requests
- Present improvements and ideas to peers
Your technical skills:
Essential:
- Proficiency in React, JSX, HTML, CSS
- Experience using state management (e.g. Redux, Contexts)
- Understanding of JavaScript Fundamentals (ES6+)
- Experience with Git
- Experience with Unit Testing
- Basic visualization skills in SVG/D3/ggplot/Tableau or similar
Desirable:
- Fluent in American Football
- Experience working with a centralized UX team
- Experience working with complex relational databases
- Experience building responsive, touch enabled web applications
- Design-led, user experience focused UI development
- Experience with developing for production
- Experience with Linux servers
Other technical skills:
- GraphQL
- AWS (Amplify, S3)
- Storybook, TailwindCSS, CSS-in-JS styling
- Accessibility
Your background:
- Commercial experience using a range of software languages
- Ideally a BSc in a CS / Science based degree, or equivalent knowledge
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Team player, self-motivated, hard-working, keen to learn
- Basic understanding of football
- Experience of working in the sports media industry would be a bonus
StatsBomb is an inspiring place to work. If you think you have the passion, drive and talent to join our exciting and fast paced team, we’d love to hear from you!
In return, we offer the following:
- Excellent career development opportunities
- The opportunity to work with smart and dedicated colleagues, working towards a shared vision
- A collaborative and diverse team environment
- Remote and flexible working as well as inclusive wellbeing benefits
- Team social activities
- Competitive salaries
- Competitive stock option package for all employees
- Competitive annual holiday allowance:
- 25 days holiday (prorated),
- 1 wellbeing day per quarter,
- 1 day off on your birthday,
- Possibility to buy and sell holidays
- Equal maternity and paternity provision
- Family friendly policies
Working at StatsBomb
If you think you have the passion, drive and talent to join our exciting and fast paced team, we’d love to hear from you! With excellent career development opportunities and a collaborative and diverse team environment, StatsBomb is an inspiring place to work - as described below by some of our colleagues….
“It is a class place to be and the people are phenomenal. I feel so lucky to spend everyday working with amazing technology, on fascinating projects, as part of the most entertaining industry in the world.Statsbomb is one of those places where the company’s focus is so exciting that you want to be a part of it...some projects are totally confidential and game changing in the industry which is thrilling to be part of. Everyday I work in collaboration with industry leaders and learn from experts pushing the boundaries of computer vision, data science and sporting analysis. I have worked in all environments from global investment banking to growing startups and the culture here is like nothing I've seen. We recruit from different cultures all around the world who feel like distant cousins - events like our conference are like a wedding party that brings everyone together!”
Chris, Senior Tech Engineer
“StatsBomb is such a fun and exciting company to work for. Working with, and learning from, diverse and intelligent colleagues in such a supportive and friendly atmosphere is amazing.”
Corinne, Project Manager
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