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Job type full-time
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About sportsrecruits
Sportsrecruits is the platform that provides clubs, student-athletes and their families access to every college coach in the countryClub and high school organizations use our platform to empower their student-athletes in the recruiting process and oversee their efforts and communication with complete transparencyConnections made on the platform have resulted in commitments to the best academic and athletic institutions across the country.
Sportsrecruits is an equal opportunity employer and embraces diversity and equal opportunity on our teamJust like the student-athletes we support, we are trying to get better and stronger as a team everydayWe are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skillsWe truly believe that the more inclusive our team is, the better we can serve all student-athletes, as well as their families and coaches, who are pursuing their dreams.
About the position
We are a product development team full of fun, intelligent, happy, and hardworking engineers, designers and product managers distributed across the united statesWe are profitable, funded and giving more high school athletes the ability to play college athletics than any other recruiting tool out thereYour input and coding/problem solving skills will make a direct impact in how we scale and grow the company.
We are looking for a senior front-end developer that will take ownership of maintaining and building new javascript components, profiling front-end application performance, instilling best practices and working with the design team to iterate on our digital design system, style guide, and application user interface.
You would join our team working remotely with the option to go into our downtown manhattan wework office if you are based in nycWorking remotely you would be expected to be able to travel to nyc a few times per year for team building eventsYou will contribute to solving complex problems that will make our platform even better at connecting thousands of student athletes and college programsSome interesting projects we’ve recently worked on are:
New, in-browser video clipping and editing for making highlight reels
Robust player search for college coaches
React-native based hybrid ios/android app for recruiting events scheduling
Tools for partner events to import rosters of athletes with built-in column mapping, de-duping and validation rules to automatically merge duplicate user data
Our two main technologies that we are investing most of our resources in are laravel (a modern php framework) and vue.js, which currently powers the frontend application and react native for our mobile appWe are looking for a candidate who is already interested and excited by the vue ecosystem and by writing code that adheres to solid principles.
About you:
5+ years developing web based applications in a professional team-based environment
Will act as the primary front-end developer of all client facing digital products including websites, mobile apps, and other software efforts
Write flexible and reusable code for ui components with a focus on performanceYou know the trade-offs, when to make concessions and how to be adaptive in presenting these difficulties to various groups
Have experience with vuejs or reactYou understand the pros and cons of scoped slots vs mixins vs higher order componentsYou’ve written tests to ensure the reliability of reusable components
Advanced knowledge of flexbox, css grid, and css3 animationsYou’ve pushed the boundaries of svg and canvas animations and you’re often figuring out how the fancy animated effect you stumbled onto works
Have experience with cli toolingYou’ve set up build processes to compile various front end projects
Ability to work with and debug rest api responsesYou’ve mocked data to start on the front end project without the backend being ready
Understand cross-browser issues and debuggingWe support the latest two versions of all the major browsers but occasionally need to make something work for even older browser
Passionate about good design and usability
Nice to have:
Experience with tailwind css and/or utility based css frameworks
Familiar with with seo optimizations and analytics tools
Familiar/involved with open source projects and workflows
Personal:
Experience working with teams of developers and designers on web projects
Independent, self-motivated, inquisitive
Fluent in english, written and spoken
Proven track record of always learning and growing
Proactive and positive attitude
Culture:
Daily standups and weekly “product development team meetings” give everyone on the team a voice into what products we`re building, what we are tracking and what tools we are using.
Our monthly all hands presentations keep everyone in the loop with what is happening across all departments within the company
Friday (virtual) team happy hours
Unlimited pto through our “personal responsibility vacation policy”
This is a full time position available as remote or in nyc, no freelancers pleasePrincipals only, no recruiters please.
Learn more about us at sportsrecruits.com.
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