Frontend Engineer

Frontend Engineer (Mid-Level)
Join a global sports tech innovator transforming how the world experiences live sport.
Claremont Cape Town R60 000 to R80 000 per month Hybrid working model

About Our Client
Our client is a fast-growing sports technology company on a mission to revolutionize professional sports through data-driven solutions and advanced tracking systems. Their cutting-edge products are used globally across rugby soccer American football and Aussie rules delivering real-time insights to broadcasters officials and athletes. With a multidisciplinary team and a record of world-first innovations this is your chance to join a company at the forefront of sports performance analytics.

The Role: Mid-Level Frontend Engineer
Youll design and build high-performance low-latency web applications that visualize real-time athlete and ball-tracking data. This is a hands-on engineering role within a collaborative cross-functional environment ideal for someone who wants to work on greenfield projects and contribute to technology shaping the future of live sports.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain performant user-friendly web interfaces for sports tech products

• Collaborate with product and design teams to implement and enhance features

• Develop interactive data visualizations that drive actionable performance insights

• Write clean maintainable and well-documented code while participating in code reviews

• Optimize UI/UX for responsiveness and scalability across multiple devices

• Integrate APIs and manage asynchronous data flows efficiently

• Support live system deployments as part of an on-call rotation

About You

• 3 years of experience in frontend engineering using JavaScript and TypeScript

• Strong proficiency in React (or similar frameworks such as Angular or Vue)

• Solid understanding of HTML5 CSS3 and responsive design principles

• Experience with testing frameworks like Jest or Cypress

• Skilled in integrating APIs and using Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines

• (Bonus) Experience with real-time or 3D data visualization libraries (e.g. )

• (Bonus) Passion for or experience in sports technology analytics or wearable devices

• A proactive collaborative mindset with an eye for detail and performance

Perks

• Hybrid working model (2 to 4 days in the office per week)

• Generous annual leave and occupational sick pay

• Enhanced parental leave and dedicated training budget

• Team socials and work-from-home allowance