Senior Software Engineer - Frontend Platform

Hudl is a company dedicated to supporting teams in the sports industry by providing tools for video capture and data analysis. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to enhance their front-end platform, ensuring it is robust, performant, and user-friendly for their extensive user base.

Responsibilities:

• Develop. You’ll help expand Hudl’s front-end platform and make it the standard across Hudl. Whether it’s discovery work, documentation, design reviews or implementation, you’ll do what it takes to ensure a robust, performant, and easy-to-use platform that’s also maintainable, scalable, accessible and secure
• Maintain tooling. You’ll use your experience with tools such as Vite and Next.js to ensure tooling is up-to-date and providing a smooth development experience for front-end developers
• Serve as a consultant. With your general expertise in front-end development, and knowledge of Hudl’s front-end platform in particular, you’ll support teams performing front-end work by answering questions, reviewing pull requests, participating in design reviews, and providing feedback on project plans

Requirements:

• Front-end expertise. You have extensive experience developing front-ends with TypeScript and React. You have either led, or played a key role in the development of large scale web applications. You're familiar with design systems and their role in ensuring a consistent, intuitive and accessible experience for users
• Effective communication skills. You're able to make your point effectively, both verbally and in writing. Whether you're building alignment in a meeting, presenting at an Engineering All-Hands, or diagramming CDN routing for a software design review, you know how to effectively share your ideas with your audience
• Understanding of front-end tooling. You understand the tools available in a front-end developer's tool belt and know when to use which tool. You've used modern tools like Vite, Playwright, Storybook, Chromatic, and Turborepo and have helped others adopt them. You are comfortable setting-up and configuring tools to ensure they are working smoothly for you and others
• A visionary. You're excited by the idea of advancing the starting line for other product team members by delivering and supporting a solid platform for them to build on. You see AI playing a critical role in accelerating this vision
• Passionate about front-end landscape. Your passionate about the front-end ecosystem and proactively stay abreast of its evolving landscape. You ensure your approach to front-end development evolves with the landscape, championing the adoption of modern concepts like Jamstack, component-driven development, micro-frontends, and monorepos
• Experience working with front-end infrastructure. You're comfortable working with AWS and Terraform if updates are needed to our Jamstack or SSR infrastructure
• Commitment to mentorship. You recognize the importance mentorship plays in a company's long-term success, and you seek out opportunities to share knowledge and level up others in your areas of expertise