Software Engineer, Front-End

WORK OPTION: Remote

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Position Summary:

As a Front End Engineer, you will be responsible for the building, testing, and deployment of entirely new NBA products across the ever-growing ecosystem of HTML5 powered connected devices (Xbox, PlayStation, Samsung, Hisense, and others). You possess strong technical aptitude and wish to further your expertise in software design and architecture. You'll contribute to a team distinguished by diversity in life, vision, and previous experience while sharing an ambitious and creative worldview reflecting the values of our organization. You will find an opportunity to shape and scale products to millions of passionate, engaged fans around the world, and to shine with a team of collaborative, supportive, and visionary builders alongside you.

Major Responsibilities:

• Contribute TypeScript/JavaScript code with responsibility for major product features while addressing issues across the product
• Create iterative and approachable code commits illustrated in well-documented pull requests
• Design, implement, and maintain the appropriate unit, UI, and integration tests
• Follow workflow processes, automations, and integrations
• Manage workload and organization using agile methodology and project ticketing tools
• Perform constructive code reviews and collaborate in larger architecture and design discussions
• Mentor and encourage your peer and associate engineers
• Work with your colleagues to ensure project milestones and shared objectives are well-planned, transparent, and balanced for the team to achieve

Required Education/Professional Experience:

• 2.5+ years of professional experience architecting, developing, and launching software products and/or services
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Required Skills/Knowledge Attributes:

• Knowledgeable of prevailing platform patterns, designs, idioms, and a desire to respectfully debate their merits and trade-offs
• Versed in standard workflow tooling for source management and CI/CD
• Experience with agile development philosophies and practices
• Understanding of the role asynchronous code plays in modern application architectures
• Interest in specific domains for sports and live-sport-event technologies: Video streaming, low-latency networking strategies, etc.
   

Salary Range: $115,000 - $145,000 

Job Posting Title: Manager 

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