Frontend Software Engineer

FRONTEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Join Our Team as a Front-end Engineer at Hawk-Eye Innovations

Hi, I’m Steve Hardingson, Director of the Video and Graphics Value Stream at Hawk-Eye Innovations. We're on a mission to revolutionise sports technology, delivering real-time ball, player, and skeletal tracking solutions that power everything from automated officiating to cutting-edge broadcast graphics and fan engagement.

Our team sits at the intersection of live sports video and data visualization. We build the high-performance UI experiences that take complex tracking data and render it beautifully into real-time graphical overlays, interactive web feeds, and broadcast tools. We’re looking for a competent, autonomous Level 3 Frontend Engineer who can own features from end to end, deliver highly responsive graphic UIs, and bring strong technical execution to the team.

What Your Day Will Look Like

As a Mid-Weight Level 3 Frontend Engineer, you will be a core engine of our delivery pipeline, working with high autonomy to turn broadcast and graphical requirements into robust interfaces. Here’s what a typical week might involve:

- Producing code to a high standard that not only functions correctly but is built to be easily understood, scalable, and extended by other members of the team.

- Owning feature development for web-based graphics tools, broadcast control panels, and interactive overlays, ensuring elements render with low latency.

- Managing code releases safely across all of our environments, including Dev, Test, Staging, and Production.

- Using APIs efficiently to GET and POST complex tracking data structures, optimizing frontend performance so animations stay perfectly synced with live video streams.

- Showing excellent attention to detail in the final product, taking deep care and pride in visual layouts, rendering performance, and user experience—and ensuring others do the same.

- Sharing ideas and techniques across the development team, contributing to engineering discussions regarding web performance and modern styling.

- Identifying and calling out technical dependencies within your project tasks to keep broadcast delivery timelines on track.

What We Value

At Hawk-Eye, our culture is built on openness, collaboration, and technical excellence. Here’s what we value in our Level 3 team members:

- Autonomy & Accountability – We trust you to pick up complex visual and technical tasks, handle them efficiently, and own the quality of your output.

- Pragmatism & Pride in Craft – Grounding your work in real-world application while maintaining an incredibly high bar for UI performance and pixel-perfect execution.

- Continuous Growth – Constantly refining your expertise in modern web performance, UI responsiveness, and live-data synchronization.

Tech Stack and Skill Requirements

As a Level 3 Engineer, you should have a solid, proven track record of building engaging, performance-driven UI experiences using:

- TypeScript & React (Strong, independent competency)

- Node.js

- HTML5, CSS3, and modern Responsive Web Architecture (experience with CSS transitions, animations, canvas, or SVG layout is a major plus)

- Deep understanding of web performance, browser vitals, and rendering optimization for smooth visual displays

- Advanced JSON data structures & clean API integration workflows

- Cypress (Proven experience with front-end testing and test-driven mentalities)

- NPM dependency management

- GIT usage and modern, collaborative code management workflows

- JIRA usage for tracking and managing your sprint tasks and tickets

Ready to Make an Impact?

If you’re excited about working with elite engineers, owning complex UI features, and seeing your work power graphics for some of the world’s biggest sporting events, then we’d love to meet you.

Here at Hawk-Eye, you won’t just be building interfaces—you’ll be helping define the future of sports technology.