Frontend Engineer

About Playback

Playback is pioneering the future of watching sports. We believe sports are at their best when enjoyed together — with your friends, at a bar, or in the stadium — but online streaming remains a frustratingly solitary experience. Playback is rethinking sports streaming as a community-first activity, building a home for sports creators (think podcasters) and their communities to hang out watch live games together, all perfectly synced.

Founded in 2019, we’ve raised over $20M from top-tier investors. Come help us build the future of live sports!

Why work at Playback?

At Playback, you’ll have the opportunity to build a potentially category-defining product in a massive market. As an early hire, your contributions will have a tangible impact on the future of our product, and you’ll have the opportunity to define your own role as we grow.

We’re well-funded, have product market fit, and our user base is highly engaged and growing quickly — our average user spends over 3 hours and 15 minutes in a Playback room every week! And in a world of buzzwords and cliches, we genuinely believe that our product enriches our users’ lives by providing meaningful social experiences. As one of our users described it, “I love this - normally I am yelling at the TV by myself, now I get to yell with everyone else!”

What you will do

You will be the primary engineer working on our client-side web application. Our product is growing and evolving quickly, so you will be architecting and implementing new features, maintaining the existing codebase, and working closely with team members to ensure quality and consistency of our apps across platforms and product areas.

Who you are

• You have a meticulous eye for detail and take pride in transforming designs into pixel-perfect and delightful user experiences.
• You are always conscious of the performance impacts of technical choices and are able to effectively weigh and communicate trade-offs.
• You are creative and open-minded. You’re willing to try new ideas, tools, and approaches to arrive at optimal solutions.
• You are comfortable building high-traffic applications at scale. You take pride in seeing people use our technology, and you understand the responsibility of shipping code to production.

Your responsibilities

• Architect and implement new user-facing features.
• Collaborate closely with designers, product managers, and other engineers.
• Support work on mobile, TV, and backend applications when necessary.
• Develop and maintain internal “mod” tools.
• Refactor and optimize existing code.
• Troubleshooting and bug fixes.

Your skills & experience

• 4+ years experience building frontend applications.
• Strong JavaScript foundation.
• Strong understanding of React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS fundamentals and best practices.
• Clear communication skills.
• Team-first attitude.

Our current stack

• Our web frontend is built with React (TypeScript) and NextJS. This is where you’ll spend most of your time.
• Our mobile apps are React Native (TypeScript).
• Our backend is in Go, deployed with Kubernetes on Google Cloud.
• We use WebRTC for real-time video streaming.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• Employer-sponsored healthcare and 401(k) plans.
• Generous work from home stipend.
• Remote-first. We have team members in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Philly and beyond.
• Flexible PTO. Everyone is encouraged (read: required 😉) to take at least 3 weeks off per year.