Staff Software Engineer (React/Next.js)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (React/Next.js): Building community-focused features for gaming platforms including membership areas, personalised dashboards, gamified engagement journeys, and homepage experiences with an accent on scalable architecture, performance, and user retention. Focus on designing complex systems, optimising bottlenecks, leading technical decisions, and mentoring distributed teams.

Salary: from 3000 EUR per month

Company

World's leading Sports and Gaming marketing company with 600+ employees across 22+ countries building next-level player experiences.

What you will do

• Design and implement scalable, maintainable, observable, and high-performing application architecture.
• Write clean, efficient, well-documented code and conduct code reviews.
• Identify and optimise performance bottlenecks across systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful features and ensure application security.
• Lead major capability decisions, translate business needs into technical roadmaps, and serve as product-engineering SME.
• Drive engineering best practices through hands-on coding, mentorship, and clear communication of complex solutions.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience building customer-facing web products using React and Next.js.
• Strong front-end engineering background, ideally with full-stack experience across APIs and integrations.
• Proven experience designing and evolving software architecture in complex systems.
• Product engineering mindset to translate requirements into technical designs and delivery plans.
• Excellent communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Coaching mindset to raise standards and mentor others.

Nice to have

• Experience with PHP and Vue/Vue components.
• Experience on membership, community, personalisation, gamification, or user-retention products.
• Experience on high-traffic websites.
• Experience applying Domain-Driven Design, SOLID, GRASP or other design principles.

Culture & Benefits

• Super smart colleagues, company-wide team-building events twice a year with entertainment and accommodation.
• Engaging development opportunities at all levels.
• Tailored flexibility for work-life balance.
• Exciting global hirify.global events to unite and share strategies.
• Extensive global benefits; country-specific details available from talent partner.

Hiring process

• Initial Chat with Talent Partner (45 mins via Zoom).
• Technical team interview (1 hour via Zoom).
• Technical Interview with coding exercise (1.5 hours or 2x1 hour via Zoom).
• Non-Technical team interview (1 hour via Zoom).
• Final Interview with Technical Leadership (1 hour via Zoom).