Frontend Software Engineer

Frontend Software Engineer - Data Platforms & Insights

Join Our Team as a Frontend Engineer at Hawk-Eye Innovations

Hi, I’m Jon Frost, Frontend Discipline Lead supporting the Data Platforms and Insights 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 elite-level sports analytics.

Our Data Platforms and Insights team is responsible for turning billions of rows of tracking data into actionable intelligence. We build the high-performance, data-dense web platforms, dashboards, and analytical interfaces that leagues, clubs, and internal teams rely on to extract insights. We’re looking for a competent, autonomous Level 3 Frontend Engineer who can own features from end to end, deliver highly optimized data UIs, and bring strong technical execution to the team.

What Your Day Will Look Like

As a Frontend Engineer, you will be a core engine of our delivery pipeline, working with high autonomy to turn data 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 heavy-duty analytics dashboards, charts, and tables, ensuring complex sporting data loads smoothly and responsively.
• Managing code releases safely across all of our environments, including Dev, Test, Staging, and Production.
• Using APIs efficiently to GET and POST complex data structures across our reporting ecosystems, optimizing for web performance under heavy data loads.
• Showing excellent attention to detail in the final product, taking care and pride in the visual layout and user experience, and ensuring others do the same.
• Sharing ideas and techniques across the development team, contributing to engineering discussions, and helping align best practices.
• Identifying and calling out technical dependencies within your project tasks to keep 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 project 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 code quality and UI performance.
• Continuous Growth – Constantly refining your expertise in modern web performance and complex data visualization techniques.

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
• Deep understanding of web performance, browser vitals, and UI optimization when handling large data sets
• 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 data UI features, and seeing your work power analytics 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.

Apply now and join us in shaping the next era of sports insights and analytics.