Senior Front-End Developer

Varsity Spirit Job Opportunity

For over 50 years, Varsity Spirit has been the leading global source for all things spirit, including cheerleading, dance team, performing arts and yearbook. Focused on safety, entertainment and traditional school leadership, Varsity Spirit's 5,000+ employees are dedicated to celebrating school spirit. A leader in apparel innovation, educational camps, clinics, competitions, and yearbook, Varsity Spirit impacts more than a million athletes each year.

This role requires a proactive individual capable of working independently and collaboratively to design, build, and maintain modern, accessible user interfaces for Varsity Spirit's Yearbook Technology platform, delivering high-quality front-end solutions for complex business needs.

What You Will Do:

• Designs, develops, and maintains responsive, accessible front-end applications using Angular, with React experience considered a strong plus
• Builds and maintains reusable, well-tested UI components and design-system elements using modern Angular patterns, including Signals
• Develops canvas-based, interactive editing experiences for the Yearbook design platform (e.g., drag-and-drop layout, image manipulation); experience with FabricJS is a significant plus
• Implements styling and responsive layouts using Tailwind CSS and modern CSS practices
• Collaborates with backend engineers to integrate UI components with RESTful APIs and microservices
• Implements client-side state management and data-flow patterns (e.g., RxJS, NgRx, or Angular Signals) for complex, interactive UIs
• Builds and maintains automated front-end tests (unit, component, and end-to-end) to ensure UI quality and prevent regressions
• Implements accessible (WCAG-conformant) UI patterns, partnering with QA and product on accessibility validation
• Optimizes front-end performance for rendering-heavy, canvas-based interfaces
• Participates in code reviews and mentors junior front-end engineers
• Troubleshoots production UI issues and implements fixes
• Continuously improves front-end development processes, tooling, and infrastructure

Qualifications:

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• At least 6 years professional front-end software development experience
• Experience with backend or full-stack development technologies, including Java
• Strong, hands-on proficiency with Angular (current versions), including Angular Signals
• Strong command of TypeScript, RxJS, and modern component-based architecture
• Experience with State Management Approaches such as NgRx, RxJS, or Signals-based state
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs and integrating with backend services
• Experience with automated testing frameworks (e.g., Jasmine/Karma, Jest, Cypress, or Playwright)
• Working knowledge of WCAG accessibility standards and building accessible, ARIA-compliant UI
• Experience optimizing front-end performance, including rendering-heavy or canvas-based interfaces
• Familiarity with component-driven development tools (e.g., Storybook)
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team
• Experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies

Preferred

• Experience working with React
• Experience with Tailwind CSS and modern component/utility-first styling approaches
• Significant plus: experience with FabricJS or comparable canvas/WebGL libraries (e.g., Konva.js) for building interactive, canvas-based editing experiences
• Contribution to open-source projects

Physical Demands and/or Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Join the best team in sport & spirit

At Varsity Brands, we believe every student deserves the opportunity to succeed and every educator wants to make a difference. It takes a team to make a real impact, and through our two divisions – BSN SPORTS and Varsity Spirit – and our network of 6,000+ employees and independent representatives, we are proud to partner with a wide range of educational institutions and club and professional sports to transform the student journey in SPORT and SPIRIT.

Our Values

Service - We lead with heart. We champion community.

Passion - We love what we do. It fuels our purpose.

Integrity - We do what we promise. We own our actions and decisions.

Respect - We earn it by giving it. Because everyone deserves it.

Innovation - We never stop striving to be better. For ourselves and our community.

Transparency - We are committed to openness and honesty in everything we do.

Our Benefits

We are committed to putting you and your families first. For benefits eligible roles, we offer a variety of choices and costs as well as program enhancements that align with our responsibility to elevate the employee experience. Some of our offerings include:

• Comprehensive Health Care Benefits
• HSA Employer Contribution/ FSA Opportunities
• Wellbeing Program
• 401(k) plan with company matching
• Company paid Life, AD&D, and Short-Term Disability
• Generous My Time Off & Paid Holidays
• Varsity Brands Ownership Program
• Employee Resource Groups
• Access to Financial Coaching and member-owned Credit Union
• St. Jude Partnership & Volunteer Opportunities
• Employee Perks including discounts on personal apparel and equipment!

Varsity Brands companies are equal opportunity employers. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran's status, age or disability.