Senior Frontend Engineer

About Playback

At Playback, we’re building the future of sports TV. We believe sports are at their best when enjoyed together — with your friends, at a bar, or in the stadium — yet online streaming remains a frustratingly solitary experience. We’re making sports streaming a community-first activity by building a home for sports creators (think podcasters) and their communities to hang out watch live games together, all perfectly synced.

Since our founding in 2019, we’ve reached key partnerships with the NBA and EuroLeague, with more leagues and rights coming soon, making Playback the first (and only!) streaming platform to offer users the ability to watch live sports together. We use cutting-edge tech to power the platform, leaning heavily on WebRTC for realtime audio and video. You can learn a bit more about our both our tech and our vision here:

• Fast Company: This sports media company is turning fans into creators
• LiveKit: How Playback built a global stadium for watching sports together

We’ve raised over $20M from top-tier investors, most recently closing our Series A round (announcement forthcoming). 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 backend applications when necessary.
• Develop and maintain internal tools.
• Refactor and optimize existing code.
• Troubleshooting and bug fixes.

Your skills & experience

• 5+ years experience building frontend applications.
• Top-notch JavaScript skills and strong web fundamentals.
• Fluent in idiomatic React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Clear communication skills.
• Team-first attitude.

Our tech 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, Austin, Philly and beyond!
• Flexible PTO. Everyone is encouraged (read: required 😉) to take at least 3 weeks off per year.