Senior Software Development Engineer
UTA Ventures is the venture division of United Talent Agency.
About UTA Ventures
UTA Ventures seeks out, builds, and accelerates innovative businesses that change how people live, work, and play. It operates at the intersection of entertainment, commerce, and technology, partnering with talent to build companies, extend brand platforms, and expand into new categories. The division also invests in growing startups, including businesses in the creator economy, frontier technology, and the future of entertainment.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead development of responsive, accessible front-end applications and establish scalable architecture, standards, and patterns. You will own shared React components and design tokens, integrate APIs, optimize performance, mentor engineers, and maintain automated visual-regression and accessibility testing in CI.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of front-end engineering experience
- Deep production React experience
- TypeScript expertise
- Experience building and maintaining component libraries or shared UI code
- Deep CSS expertise
- Accessibility experience with complex interactive components
- Responsive web-development experience
- RESTful API integration experience
- Git and CI/CD workflow familiarity
- Written communication and technical-proposal skills
- Problem-solving and collaboration skills
- Next.js, GraphQL, headless CMS, cloud and edge hosting, or React Native experience is a plus
Responsibilities
- Lead development of user-facing features and applications using React, Next.js, and Tailwind CSS
- Define and implement scalable front-end architectures, patterns, and engineering standards
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers
- Contribute to public-facing web properties
- Own and evolve the shared React component library
- Maintain and extend the design-token system
- Own component versioning, changelogs, and upgrade paths
- Drive component-library adoption through migrations, documentation, contribution models, and deprecation policies
- Optimize web applications for speed and scalability
- Integrate front-end applications with APIs and web services
- Perform continuous testing with Storybook and Playwright
- Maintain visual-regression and automated accessibility testing in CI
- Meet WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility requirements