Digital Web Developer

About the job

SailGP is racing redefined. The sport’s pinnacle league, SailGP was established in 2018 and is headquartered in London and New Zealand. The annual, global championship aims to Race for the Future by showcasing the power of nature and accelerating change.

The fan-centric, inshore racing takes place among the sport’s top athletes in some of the most iconic harbors around the world, and offers the sport’s largest monetary prize of $1 million. Rival national teams battle it out in identical supercharged F50 catamarans, engineered for intense racing at electrifying speeds exceeding 60 mph/100 kph.

In 2020, SailGP set a new standard as the first climate positive sports and entertainment property, and began delivering actions and innovations that advance the global adoption of clean energy. Underpinning the organization’s purpose-driven agenda is a diversification of the league, with the goal of immediately progressing gender equity and racial inclusivity.

SailGP is a global organization with defined values that shape the culture of its diverse team: deliver the best, break boundaries, make an impact, stand together and strike a balance.

About the role:

As a Digital Web Developer, you will work across SailGP’s multiple digital platforms. You will work with the systems team to provide further insights through the technology platforms to SailGP fans across the world.

Working within product engineering and with external development teams, you will play a key role in contributing towards new and existing digital solutions with a data driven approach towards development ideas to improve our fan digital experience.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Contribute to and maintain production software across SailGP digital products including SailGP.com / SailGP Simulator / SailGP App / SailGPInsights.com / SailGP Media Portal and microsites.
• Contribute to the development of new Digital initiatives.
• Working with SailGP Digital team and SailGP Technology Teams on front end code dependencies
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with all stakeholders and business users involved in projects
• Ability to rapidly prototype and adjust in response to internal feedback
• Solid coding practices including peer code reviews, unit testing, and a preference for agile development.
• Must be able to work at events from start to finish throughout the year including nights and weekends

Background & Technical Skills Preferred:

• A values driven, credible and delivery focused individual
• A collaborative and solutions-focused mindset
• Ability to work effectively and thrive in a fast-paced, start-up environment
• Excellent problem-solving skills - thinks strategically and takes initiative.
• Ability to work independently and in teams and to meet deadlines.
• Ability to prioritise tasks and manage multiple projects at once.
• Eager to provide excellent service quality.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to multi-task and meet deadlines with limited supervision
• Strong communication skills, culturally sensitive and able to effectively work globally
• Advanced coding skills (concurrency, profiling and performance optimisation).
• Good understanding of SEO principles
• Demonstrated best-practice software engineering including some aspects of agile methodologies, unit testing, refactoring, code reviews, continuous build and deployment processes.
• Strong UX design skills, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills.
• Skilled with common front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, React and Node
• Experienced in 3d Graphics (eg babylon.js or three.js)
• Experience with graphing libraries (eg plotly.js)
• Experience in one or more relevant content platform such as Contentful

Attributes:

• Enjoy networking and cultivating productive working relationships
• Able to work with all levels within an organization including senior executives, managers and technical staff
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills
• Ability to operate both independently and in a collaborative, team environment
• Superior organisation, prioritisation and coordination skills
• Ability to work effectively and thrive in a fast-paced, start-up environment
• Culturally sensitive and able to effectively work globally
• Ability to work under pressure
• Self-starter, action-orientated, resourceful; can take project from start to completion
• Highly organised / excellent time management
• A valid passport

Location & Time

• Day to day working from home
• Meetings and other work as required in the SailGP office based in Hammersmith, London

SailGP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace committed to building a team culture that celebrates diversity and inclusion.

Company Benefits

• Private pension
• Macbook
• Flexi-working
• Bonus
• Unlimited Holiday
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Private Healthcare

Interview Process

2 stage telephone interview and tech test