Please note we are only considering candidates located in Canada and LATM.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
We’re looking for a design-focused front end developer who believes interaction is a form of storytelling. We want someone who obsesses over the details of animation, pacing, and motion to create moments of surprise, delight, and emotional connection.
- You develop scalable, maintainable front-end code: without over-engineering, you make room for flexibility in components or applications to grow and pivot if needed.
- You prioritize performance, usability, and accessibility: balancing innovation and usability; pushing boundaries while maintaining clarity and accessibility.
- You find root causes rather than patch fixes when debugging and resolving issues in code, and support colleagues in troubleshooting and problem-solving.
- You are a proactive communicator: in stand-ups you flag risks and blockers to relevant stakeholders and align direction with business requirements and navigate stakeholder conversations
- You hold yourself accountable: own engineering projects, driving them from inception to completion with minimal guidance.
- You are a “code gardener”: you address tech debt where you can, refactor to improve developer quality of life, and contribute to the evolution of front-end architecture and development processes.
- You are curious and build rapport: collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering teams to align on solutions and drive consensus.
- You are organized: you help scope tasks, documenting technical decisions in tickets and centralized notes to maintain a single source of truth.
- You are experienced in estimating how a feature will take: understanding existing architecture, and estimating effort with accuracy.
- You are a self-starter: you don’t wait for someone to tell you to start a proof-of-concept: you anticipate cross-functional needs, initiate alignment, evaluate new tools or approaches and follow through to resolution.
- You help your teammates: participate in team discussions, code reviews, and knowledge sharing, providing technical mentorship and constructive feedback.
Qualification Requirements
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- 5+ years of front-end development experience with React, modern JavaScript, and TypeScript (preferably in creative studios and/or agencies, digital production companies, or innovation agency environments)
- Deep understanding of motion design as part of interaction design, using animation to guide, inform, and delight users.
- Portfolio demonstrating immersive interactive experiences, microsites, brand storytelling websites, or motion-rich interfaces.
- Skilled in translating brand stories into interactive experiences that surprise and delight.
- Thrives in conceptual, experimental environments: comfortable working in gray areas between design, storytelling, and technology.
- Keen eye for timing, easing, and visual rhythm: obsessed with how things feel as much as how they look.
- Experience using frameworks like GSAP and ThreeJS (or similar), and understanding how animation supports UX and brand.
- Experience with micro-interaction implementation, including working with Lottie
- Experience with content management systems such as, ContentStack, Adobe Experience Manager, Payload, or Wordpress
Supervisory Responsibilities
This job does not have supervisory responsibilities.
Location/Work Hours
This role is 100% remote.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Next League is the leading digital growth consultant and technology solutions partner helping lead the sports industry to know what’s next. Founded by a team of technology veterans with decades of success in sports, Next League is redefining the digital agency and technology services model to unlock new business growth, digital innovation and technology solutions with a commitment to lasting social impact. The people-first, culture-driven approach puts a focus on building inclusive, curious and collaborative relationships that deliver next level digital experiences.
Salary will be commensurate with a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. We strive to provide the best working environment for our team members by offering the following benefits:
- Retirement Plan Programs (with a company match!)
- Unlimited Vacation & Sick Time
- Excellent Health Benefits Packages
- Flexible Working Opportunities (we are a 100% remote business)
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are the care of our culture at Next League. Providing a safe and inclusive space for all team members to ensure their voice is heard is critical to our success. Next League provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
