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title: 'Senior Frontend Engineer at Beyond Sports'
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# Senior Frontend Engineer at Beyond Sports

- **Company:** Beyond Sports
- **Location:** Budapest, Hungary
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-11-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-03
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wearebeyondsports/76a8a5da-2804-4e10-ab5f-2f2c8f94fbf9

## Job description

Senior Front End Developer at Beyond Sports

Join Our Team as a Senior Front End Developer at Beyond Sports! Are you passionate about building cutting-edge web interfaces, leading development squads, and creating digital products that capture the attention of millions of sports fans worldwide? At Beyond Sports, we don’t just visualize sports, we reinvent how fans experience them. Together with partners like NFL, NHL, FIFA, and Disney, we push the boundaries of real-time sports data, 3D graphics, and AI-driven storytelling across web and native mobile platforms. If you're an experienced Senior Front End Developer who excels as a Tech Lead, thrives on modern JavaScript and TypeScript architectures, and enjoys mentoring developers while driving high code quality, this is the perfect next step in your career.

What Your Day Will Look Like As a Senior Front End Developer, you will have the opportunity to build and lead technical solutions that engage millions of sports fans globally, working with real-time sports data sources and modern front-end technologies to craft custom UI experiences. Working as an effective Tech Lead within a multi-disciplinary delivery squad, you'll bridge design, product, and engineering. One day you might be architecting component libraries, scoping technical requirements, and managing release pipelines across Dev, Staging, and Production environments. The next, you could be writing type-safe applications in TypeScript, optimizing web performance and accessibility, conducting code reviews, or establishing technical Guilds and Chapter initiatives to elevate development standards across the engineering team. You'll take real ownership of front-end delivery across your squad, driving clean code practices and communicating technical decisions clearly to internal teams and external client stakeholders.

## What We Value

At Beyond Sports, we move fast, collaborate closely, and build things that haven't existed before. You'll fit right in if you:

- Take pride in writing clean, scalable, maintainable code that functions flawlessly and is easily extended
- Bring an effective Tech Lead mindset, taking ownership of squad delivery, release management, and task scoping
- Possess a meticulous eye for detail, ensuring pixel-perfect translation of design into production UI
- Enjoy sharing ideas, driving new technologies, and established best practices across the engineering chapter
- Drive clear technical communication with cross-functional teams, clients, and external partners
- Show a passion for continuous learning, taking your technical skills and domain expertise to an expert level
- Elevate those around you by mentoring developers and establishing technical working groups or Guilds

## Your Background

You don't need to tick every box, but we're generally looking for: Expert Knowledge

- Core Web Stack: HTML5, CSS3, modern SASS/SCSS, responsive web architectures, and cross-browser/device testing and debugging
- TypeScript & JavaScript: Deep fluency in TypeScript, modern vanilla JavaScript (ES6+), type safety principles, JSON data structures, and consuming REST/GraphQL APIs (GET/POST)
- Build & Versioning: Advanced Git workflows, code management, build tools, and task automation
- Project Management: Experience using Jira for ticket estimation, task assignment, and delivery tracking
- Documentation: Proven track record of documenting front-end architectures, codebases, and integration guides

Competent / Working Knowledge

- Integration with third-party libraries and media services (e.g., video streaming providers, live data feeds)
- Package managers and modern build systems (NPM, Webpack/Vite/Gulp)
- Web performance optimization, Core Web Vitals, and responsive assets
- Web accessibility guidelines (WCAG standards)
- SEO considerations and technical implementation techniques

Leadership & Line Management (Optional / Desire-Based)

- Experience acting as a Tech Lead or Chapter Lead across front-end disciplines
- Ability or interest in people management (e.g., conducting 1:1s, performance reviews, and career coaching)

Why Level Up Your Career at Beyond Sports Fast-moving, creative, and innovative — that's our world.

- Massive Scale: Build high-performance applications used by millions of global sports fans
- Technical Ownership: Lead front-end architecture, drive modern toolsets, and manage release strategies
- Growth Culture: Establish Guilds/Working Groups, lead Chapters, and continuously upgrade your tech stack
- Squad Autonomy: Influence project scoping, task management, and squad delivery standards
- Real Collaboration: Partner closely with creative directors, UX designers, product managers, and backend engineers

## About Beyond Sports

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Beyond Sports transforms raw sports tracking data into real-time 3D animated broadcasts, AI-driven commentary, and immersive fan experiences.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Acquired by Sony in November 2022)
- **Headquarters**: Alkmaar, Netherlands
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Sander J. Schouten (CEO & Co-Founder) and Nicolaas Westerhof (CTO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Sports Technology, Data Visualization, Broadcast Media
- Target customers: B2B — sports leagues (NFL, NBA, NHL), broadcasters, media partners, brands, and data rightsholders
- Mission or purpose statement: To revolutionize the sports industry through cutting-edge technology and AI-driven insights, reimagining how sports are consumed by fans worldwide.

## Products & Services
- **Data Processing Engine**: Ingests and merges multiple raw tracking data streams (often incomplete or single-point) to produce a consistent, production-ready format. Compatible with any output including the Metaverse, media partners, and digital platforms.
- **Data Visualization Platform**: An Emmy Award-winning visualization engine that creates real-time 3D animations from enhanced tracking data, powering alternative broadcasts (e.g., "NHL Hockeyverse"), performance analysis, and post-match programs.
- **Creative & Storytelling Services**: Co-creates immersive narratives, animated broadcasts, AI commentary, and fan-first content for apps, gaming platforms, and branded worlds that enhance fan engagement and loyalty.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (acquired by Sony in 2022 for an undisclosed amount)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised $2.36M prior to acquisition; now a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Group
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sony Group (parent company, via Hawk-Eye and Pulselive), NFL, NBA, NHL
- **Growth Signals**: Emmy Award-winning technology; live broadcasts on gaming platforms as a next major goal; integrated with Sony’s Hawk-Eye tracking system and Pulselive digital services; team of 50+ employees representing 17 nationalities

## Competitive Advantages
- **Sony Ecosystem Integration**: Unique access to Hawk-Eye’s tracking data and Pulselive’s distribution, creating a vertically integrated pipeline from data capture to fan-facing content.
- **Proprietary Data Enhancement**: Proprietary engine that validates, enhances, and unifies raw tracking data into complete, lifelike 3D skeletons — a technical moat that competitors struggle to replicate.
- **Creative & Tech Fusion**: In-house 3D artists, engineers, and storytellers working side-by-side, enabling rapid production of broadcast-ready, immersive experiences that are both technically advanced and creatively compelling.

## Strategic Focus
- **Live Gaming Integration**: Pivoting to bring live match broadcasts onto gaming platforms, creating a new category of interactive sports consumption.
- **Deepening Sony Synergy**: Leveraging Hawk-Eye’s data and Pulselive’s digital services to scale globally and offer end-to-end solutions for leagues and broadcasters.
- **Expanding Sport Verticals**: Building on existing NFL, NBA, and NHL partnerships to enter new sports and markets, with a focus on direct-to-consumer experiences.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Environment**: Described as “more like a living room than a corporate space,” with an open, modern office overlooking canals in Alkmaar. High value placed on diversity — 17 nationalities among 50+ team members.
- **Workspace & Perks**: In-office role with two adjacent offices; ping-pong, corn-hole, darts, video games, and board games; freshly prepared hot meals three times a week by an in-house chef, plus fresh fruit, snacks, and drinks.
- **Growth & Development**: Access to learning courses; hands-on work with industry-leading data technology on high-impact projects for world-renowned sports organizations.
- **Wellness**: Company fitness card for a nearby gym; ergonomic work equipment provided from day one.
- **Team Events**: Regular Friday drinks, project watch parties, and an annual company trip.

## Sources
1. [beyondsports.nl](https://www.beyondsports.nl/)
2. [beyondsports.nl/careers-page](https://www.beyondsports.nl/careers-page)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/beyond-sports)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/beyond-sports)
5. [sony.com](https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/technology/stories/entries/20240411/beyondsports/)

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