Frontend Tech Lead Role - Vue.js, SSR & MarTech in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
A Dual-Track Role: Technical Leadership + Hands-On Engineering
This is a player-coach position — expect a meaningful split between coding/architecture and people management. That's a green flag for engineers who don't want to go fully into management and lose their technical edge. The Nuxt.js/SSR migration is a high-visibility, portfolio-worthy project that will sharpen skills increasingly demanded in the market.
Skills You'll Develop
- Large-scale frontend migration strategy (Vue → Nuxt.js/SSR) — highly marketable in 2024–2025
- Core Web Vitals and technical SEO at scale — critical for MarTech/E-commerce roles
- Engineering leadership: 1-on-1s, performance reviews, career development — essential for Principal/Director tracks
- Cross-functional stakeholder management in a high-traffic product environment
Compensation Context: No salary is disclosed, which is a mild red flag for transparency. For a Tech Lead with 8+ years in Europe, market benchmarks sit around €80k–€120k depending on country. The quarterly performance bonus adds upside, but candidates should negotiate clearly.
Culture Signals: Remote-first, sustainability focus, and a human-reviewed recruitment process (explicitly no AI screening) suggest a thoughtful, people-oriented culture. 28 days PTO is above the UK/EU statutory minimum — another green flag. The MarTech/betting domain means high-scale, fast-moving systems — rewarding for growth but potentially stressful.
About the Role
As the Team Lead for our Frontend development team, you will play a key role in driving the architecture, development, and delivery of high-quality software solutions. You will lead a group of talented developers, ensuring smooth collaboration, technical innovation, and strong delivery results. Your responsibilities will encompass both hands-on coding and line management, helping the team grow, improve, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
Our Stack
- Frontend: Vue.js, Vuex, Vue Router, Nuxt.js (Planned Migration), TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), Less, SCSS, Element UI
- Testing & Build: Webpack, Playwright
- Backend Exposure: Java, Spring Boot, Node.js
- Infra & DevOps Exposure: AWS, Kubernetes (K8s), Jenkins, FreeMarker
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead and mentor a team of Frontend developers within the Marketing Tech and Social domain.
- Drive high-level architecture and design decisions for complex software systems, ensuring high performance, scalability, and code quality.
- Lead major technical migration projects, specifically executing our roadmap to transition the platform to Nuxt.js and Server-Side Rendering (SSR).
- Focus heavily on performance engineering, optimizing site load speed, Core Web Vitals, and technical SEO for high-traffic environments.
- Maintain a heavily hands-on contribution level (coding, architecture, and code reviews) alongside line management responsibilities.
- Manage team members' performance, lead 1-on-1s, drive career development, and handle work allocation.
- Drive continuous improvement in development processes, modern tools, and delivery standards across the team.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders, backend engineers, and product teams to refine requirements and ship high-quality features.
What You'll Bring
- 8+ years of software development experience with a primary focus on Frontend technologies.
- 2+ years of experience in a formal leadership or line management role (mentoring, performance evaluations, work allocation).
- Strong technical mastery of JavaScript/TypeScript (ES6+), CSS preprocessors (Less/Sass), Webpack, and Git.
- Proven experience with state management architectures (e.g., Vuex, Redux, NgRx).
- Experience planning and executing large-scale web migrations, particularly with Nuxt.js or Server-Side Rendering (SSR) frameworks.
- Strong track record in web performance engineering, Core Web Vitals optimization, and technical SEO.
- Experience working in high-traffic, high-scale environments such as MarTech, AdTech, E-commerce, Betting, or Events platforms.
- Familiarity with modern end-to-end testing tools (e.g., Playwright) is a plus.
- Basic awareness/understanding of backend environments (Java, SpringBoot) and DevOps concepts (AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins) is a plus.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
What's in It for You
- Sporty is a remote-first company in pursuit of sustainability.
- A competitive salary + individual performance-based bonuses every quarter.
- 28 days paid annual leave.
- Core working hours are 10am–3pm in your local time zone, with flexibility outside of this.
- Referral bonuses & flash bonuses.
- Top-of-the-line equipment provided.
- Annual company retreats for great internal networking opportunities.
Interview Process
- Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team
- Offline take-home assignment
- Remote video interview with Team Members (60 mins)
- Final discussion with the hiring manager (60 mins)
If you're interested, we encourage you to apply! Every application is reviewed by a member of our team (AI is not used in our recruitment process), and we aim to respond within 48 hours.
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