Software Engineer

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)

• Build and ship product features
• Develop and enhance front-end experiences using React and TypeScript, with an emphasis on performance, accessibility, and clean design patterns.
• Translate product requirements into scalable implementations that are easy to support across many collegiate clients and configurations.
• Work with APIs (REST/JSON) to integrate data for live stats, schedules, rosters, content, streaming, and admin tools.
• Collaborate in an Agile environment
• Partner with Product Owners and cross-functional stakeholders to refine requirements, identify edge cases, and ensure we deliver the right solution.
• Communicate tradeoffs clearly—balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
• Write unit tests and automated tests for new and existing functionality (Jest/React Testing Library or equivalent).
• Improve reliability through thoughtful error handling, logging, and defensive UI patterns—especially for live event workflows where uptime matters.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering standards, patterns, and shared component libraries.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize production systems; identify root causes and implement durable fixes.
• Maintain and improve existing systems.
• Refactor legacy areas where needed to reduce technical debt, improve performance, and enable faster feature delivery.
• Contribute to documentation and internal tooling to support development at scale.
• Use AI tools to accelerate development (e.g., scaffolding, test generation, refactors, debugging assistance), while applying strong engineering judgment.
• Collaborate with teammates on best practices for AI-assisted coding (prompting patterns, validation, security considerations, and review discipline).

Why PrestoSports

• Build products used by real teams and fans—work that shows up on game day.
• Ownership and impact: your work ships quickly and matters.
• A team culture moving fast with AI-driven development while still emphasizing strong engineering fundamentals.
• Challenging problems across web platforms, live stats, and high-reliability experiences.
• Bonus: help explore and implement AI-enabled features, workflows, or internal productivity tools.

What Success Looks Like (First 3–6 Months)

• You ship meaningful features to production with solid testing coverage and minimal rework.
• You demonstrate ownership: you ask the right questions, think through edge cases, and improve the product beyond the ticket.
• You contribute to team velocity and quality through strong PRs, reviews, and clear communication.
• You adopt AI-assisted development practices responsibly and consistently.

Required Qualifications

• Experience building modern web applications using React and TypeScript (or strong React + willingness to ramp quickly on TS).
• Comfort working with APIs (building against endpoints, handling auth, pagination, error states, and data modeling).
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Experience writing unit tests and contributing to automated testing practices.
• Strong debugging skills and a commitment to building reliable, maintainable software.
• Demonstrated product mindset: you think about user impact, not just code completion.
• Open mindset toward AI-assisted development (prior AI coding experience not required).

Nice-to-Have / Bonus Skills

• Experience with AI-assisted coding tools in professional workflows (or building AI-powered features).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern release practices.
• Experience with performance optimization (rendering, bundle size, caching, API efficiency).
• Knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) and front-end best practices.
• Experience with real-time or live-data environments (sports, finance, streaming, etc.).
• Interest in or familiarity with collegiate sports.