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Sportradar is the world's leading sports technology company, creating immersive experiences at the intersection of sports, betting, and entertainment. The iGaming (Playradar) division is building the next generation of gaming experiences across Casino Games, Virtual Sports, Live Betting Products, and 24/7 Experiences.
You will design, implement, and evolve high-quality frontend features, user interfaces, and gameplay experiences for reliable, scalable, and engaging gaming products. You'll translate product and game design requirements into robust technical solutions, providing constructive feedback to improve outcomes. Your focus will be on building clean, maintainable, and well-tested software that minimizes defects and enables future product growth. You'll take ownership of technical decisions within your area, actively suggest improvements, and contribute to planning, architecture discussions, and retrospectives.
This role is based in the Vienna office and offers close collaboration with experienced engineers, designers, and product leaders. The company operates on a hybrid model with team members working in the office four days a week to foster stronger connections, collaboration, and innovation.
The team values creativity, innovation, and building games that players love. You'll work in an Agile/Scrum environment with colleagues from offices across Europe, Asia, and the US. The company offers a collaborative environment with social events and teambuilding, flexible working hours, autonomy in managing your workday, global Employee Assistance Program, and access to well-being apps (Calm and Reulay) and online training.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong professional experience in software engineering with a focus on frontend development and production-grade user-facing applications
- Strong experience with modern JavaScript or TypeScript and hands-on experience with frontend frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue
- Experience with WebGL-based rendering and animation frameworks, particularly PixiJS and GSAP, for building high-performance interactive user experiences and gameplay interfaces
- Good understanding of component-based architecture, clean code, reusable UI patterns, and frontend software design principles
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining responsive, accessible, and performant web applications in production environments
- Proficiency with HTML, CSS, browser APIs, state management, and modern frontend build tools
- Experience integrating frontend applications with REST APIs, real-time services, or event-driven backend systems
- Familiarity with Git and modern development workflows, including code reviews and pull requests
- Understanding of frontend performance optimization, cross-browser compatibility, and debugging techniques
- Practical experience with automated frontend testing, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing approaches
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for frontend applications
- Ability to work independently and take ownership of features from technical design through to production
- Strong problem-solving mindset, attention to detail, and ability to balance quality, speed, usability, and maintainability
- Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including designers and product managers
- Willingness to mentor less experienced engineers and support strong frontend engineering practices across the team
- Comfortable working in an Agile/Scrum environment
- Proactive attitude and continuous learning mindset
NICE TO HAVE:
- Experience in game development, casino games, virtual sports, betting products, or other real-time/high-availability entertainment systems
- Experience with graphics, animation, canvas/WebGL, or interactive gameplay interfaces
- Exposure to mobile-first development, responsive design systems, and accessibility best practices
- Experience making architectural and technical decisions for scalable, maintainable frontend applications
- Ability to design frontend solutions that support performance, reliability, observability, and long-term maintainability
- Leading by example in code quality, reviews, testing discipline, and frontend engineering best practices
- Supporting the team with technical guidance, mentoring, and pragmatic decision-making
- Practical experience using AI tools to support software development
- Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated code and ensure correctness, security, and maintainability
- Understanding of best practices and limitations of AI-assisted development
- Comfortable integrating AI tools into day-to-day engineering workflows to improve productivity and quality
