VizrtVI

Senior Frontend Engineer (React)

Vizrt is the world's leading provider of visual storytelling tools for media content creators in the broadcast, sports, digital and esports industries.

Vizrt

Employee count: 501-1000

Portugal only

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you’ll lead development of cutting-edge web applications, focusing on usability, performance, and visual excellence. You’ll collaborate closely with designers, backend engineers, and product managers. This is a chance to influence both user experience and front-end architecture on a scale, working in a supportive, remote-first team.

Key Responsibilities

  • Architect, develop, and maintain scalable front-end applications using React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript.
  • Translate complex business and design requirements into intuitive, high-performance user interfaces with meticulous attention to detail.
  • Collaborate closely with design and UX teams to deliver visually stunning and seamless user experiences.
  • Drive optimization for speed, reliability, and scalability across applications.
  • Mentor and upskill team members through code reviews and by promoting front-end engineering best practices.
  • Lead architectural decisions related to state management, routing, modular component libraries, and overall front-end strategy.
  • Champion modern automated testing frameworks (Jest, Testing Library, Cypress, Vitest) and streamline CI/CD workflows for rapid, reliable delivery.
  • Proactively research and adopt emerging technologies and advocate for continuous improvement across the front-end organization.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional experience building front-end applications using React.
  • Mastery of React ecosystem (Hooks, Context API, Redux or similar state management, etc).
  • Expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript.
  • Deep knowledge of HTML5, CSS3 (SASS, CSS-in-JS, styled-components), responsive design, and accessibility (a11y).
  • Experience integrating with REST APIs.
  • Familiarity with frontend tooling: Webpack, Babel, Vite, or similar.
  • Understanding performance optimization, security, and cross-browser compatibility.
  • Effective communicator, self-driven, and productive in a remote/distributed team.

Nice to Have

  • Expertise in animation libraries (Framer Motion, GSAP).
  • Contributions to open-source React projects.
  • Exposure to backend concepts (Node.js, API design, cloud functions).
  • Exposure to the broadcasting industry.

Benefits

Across Vizrt, we all work with our shared purpose in mind; to deliver more stories, better told. That is because we believe that stories have the power to impact not just the audience, but the teller as well. A well-crafted and well-delivered story can change the world. We strive and innovate to deliver the best software-defined visual storytelling tools to the world’s storytellers across broadcast, media, public service, enterprise, not-for-profit, education, health, houses of worship, in fact wherever there is a need to educate, entertain or inform. Because that is what stories do, it is why they are important. 

4 billion humans see the stories that our customers tell every day. So, for us diversity is not an optional objective, it is a simple reality. Our customers’ customers are diverse, our customers are diverse, Vizrt gains strength from being diverse. 

It is true that we hold our diversity to be essential, it is something we constantly nourish and pay attention to, but it is not something we take for granted. We do not tolerate discrimination or harassment. We champion inclusion and we value each other’s stories, and we relish their telling.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

  • Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance plans to keep you and your family healthy.
  • Paid Time Off: Generous vacation days, sick leave, and holidays to ensure you have a work-life balance.
  • Professional Development: Opportunities for ongoing training

Join our team and take advantage of these benefits while working in a dynamic and supportive environment.

Recruitment Process  

  • Recruiter Screening 
  • Team Interview 
  • Tech Interview
  • Final Interview 

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Vizrt is the world's leading provider of visual storytelling tools for media content creators in the broadcast, sports, digital and esports industries. The company offers market-defining software-based solutions for real-time 3D graphics, video playout, studio automation, sports analysis, media asset management, and journalist story tools. With a commitment to mastering complexity and maximizing creativity, Vizrt provides innovative tools to enhance the storytelling capabilities of its clients.

Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Bergen, Norway, Vizrt operates globally, with a workforce of approximately 700 employees spread across more than 40 countries. As a privately owned company, Vizrt is backed by Nordic Capital. Its products are utilized by a plethora of esteemed organizations, with billions of viewers daily engaging with content powered by Vizrt technologies. The company continues to redefine the landscape of video content creation and distribution, ensuring that media creators have the resources they need to deliver compelling and high-quality visual narratives.

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