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Mid-Level Frontend Engineer (Sports Technology)
Mid-Level Frontend Engineer (Sports Technology)Black Pen Recruitment • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Mid-Level Frontend Engineer (Sports Technology)

Mid-Level Frontend Engineer (Sports Technology)

Black Pen Recruitment • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
30+ days ago
Job description

Our client is a fast-growing sports technology company transforming how professional sports are played and experienced. They bring together innovators from tech, science, and design to solve complex challenges at the intersection of elite sport and advanced technology.

With a global footprint and a track record of industry-firsts, they’re expanding across multiple team sports, from rugby and football to high-impact games in the US and Australia. If you're passionate about sport and innovation, this is your chance to be part of the future of the game.

Job Type : Full-time | Hybrid

Location : Cape Town

Reporting directly to : Head of Software

Requirements

  • 3+ years’ experience with frontend engineering using JavaScript and TypeScript
  • Strong experience with React (or similar frameworks like Angular or Vue)
  • Expertise with HTML5, CSS3 and responsive web design
  • Familiarity with frontend testing frameworks (e.g. Jest, Cypress)
  • Experience working with APIs and asynchronous data flows (AJAX, Fetch, etc.)
  • Comfortable with Git and CI / CD pipelines

Nice to have

  • Experience with real-time data visualization (e.g. Babylon.js, D3.js, Three.js)
  • Exposure to sports technology or wearable tech environments
  • Responsibilities

    As part of their engineering team :

  • Build and maintain performant, user-friendly web interfaces for their sports technology products
  • Collaborate with product and design teams to implement new features and improvements
  • Support data visualizations that help teams and athletes interpret performance data
  • Write clean, maintainable code and participate in code reviews
  • Contribute to improving UI / UX across platforms
  • Participate in an on-call rota to support live deployments
  • Working closely with

  • Backend and Frontend software engineers
  • Product team
  • Data Science team
  • Embedded software team
  • Benefits

  • Generous annual leave
  • Occupational sick pay
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Budget for training
  • Team socials
  • Working from home allowance
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