Front-end Engineer (Typescript/React) en Barcelona

Come join a creative team dedicated to improving football performance by combining cutting-edge technology with top football minds!

Kognia Sports Intelligence is seeking a Frontend Engineer for our Content Delivery Team, responsible for delivering football insights to our users. You will implement exciting new features in our webapp, in addition to playing other roles as a member of an agile team. The salary range is EUR 30-45K, commensurate with experience.

Kognia Sports Intelligence

We are a young Barcelona-based startup funded by football industry leaders including superstar Xavi Hernández. Since opening our office in early 2019 with the founders plus 2 engineers, we have grown to 20+.

Our technology begins with video capture in the stadiums, detects player movements and actions, and delivers insights to coaches and players in the form of video clips with overlay illustrating high-level tactical concepts. In September 2020 we went into production with a closed beta and are currently delivering insights to our first users. We have a backlog of improvements and exciting new features to implement in advance of a major public release for the 2021-2022 football season, and we need your help!

This position is currently remote but applicants must be open to commuting to our office in Sant Joan Despí  (20 minutes from Barcelona center) at some point in the future, when it is safe to do so.

Content Delivery Team

The Content Delivery team is responsible for building systems for processing data in order to produce football insights, and the delivery of these insights via user-facing applications. This includes analytics, video processing, data pipelines, and application development.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of the Kognia platform, in particular the React/TypeScript frontend of our primary webapp but also other components of the stack and internal apps as team needs and skills dictate.

• Review application requirements and interface designs.

• Improve software quality by identifying issues and opportunities for enhancements, and implementing best practices for reliable, maintainable, testable, and scalable solutions.

• Participate in architecture discussions, domain modeling, and other team decision-making.

• Investigate new technologies and approaches as needed.

• Provide code review and participate in other company activities such as recruitment, professional development, and engineering operations.

Skills and qualifications

Required

• Excellent experience and proven skills in front-end development with React.

• Strong knowledge of JavaScript ecosystem and tooling.

• Experience developing modular, extensible CSS/SASS.

• Hands-on experience with best practices in testing and developing with clean code, regardless of stack.

• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, changing agile environment.

• Excellent team player with strong verbal and written communication skills, in English.

Preferred

• Expertise in the wider React ecosystem, including Redux and Saga.

• Experience working with video in the frontend.

• Other useful stacks for miscellaneous team contributions include Python and Kotlin (Spring Boot).