Front End Developer

The Opportunity

Versant is seeking a Front-end Developer to join our Creative Operations team and help build intuitive, production-focused tools for creating, managing, and deploying real-time graphics.

This role will initially focus on supporting Versant’s growing sports portfolio, developing web-based interfaces that connect graphics workflows with live statistical data across properties including the WNBA, college basketball, college football, and Golf Channel. Over time, the scope may expand to support additional businesses and production use cases across Versant.

You will design and develop GUI applications that enable production teams to access, review, and control live data-driven graphics within existing Sync and Viz Engine environments. You will also work with sports data provider APIs and backend services to surface current statistics clearly and help ensure dependable graphics execution during live productions.

Although the role has a strong front-end focus, you will have opportunities to deepen your experience with APIs, backend services, and real-time data workflows, supporting continued growth across the full technology stack.

Why This Role Matters: Creative Operations manages company-wide Sync software and backend infrastructure while supporting sports, CNBC, MS NOW, and other enterprise initiatives. The tools and integrations developed in this role will help establish scalable workflows for Versant’s expanding sports portfolio and advance our live production capabilities for 2027 and beyond.

This is a fully remote position. Team members should expect opportunities for in-person collaboration, team gatherings, planning sessions, or other business needs approximately 10% of the time.

What You'll Do

• Design, develop, and enhance intuitive web-based interfaces that allow production teams to create, manage, review, and control real-time graphics.

• Partner with graphics and production teams working in Viz Engine and Unreal Engine to understand workflows, identify needs, and translate them into reliable production tools.

• Integrate front-end applications with backend services, sports data providers, and APIs to support accurate and timely data-driven graphics.

• Contribute across the software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, prototyping, development, testing, QA, deployment, and production support.

• Help ensure tools perform reliably in live production environments by troubleshooting issues, improving workflows, and collaborating with technical and production stakeholders.

• Build solutions with scalability and maintainability in mind as Versant’s sports and enterprise production needs evolve.

What You Bring

Required Qualifications

• Experience developing modern web applications using technologies such as React, Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

• Experience integrating applications with APIs and real-time communication technologies such as REST, gRPC, or WebSockets.

• Familiarity with development environments and tools such as Visual Studio Code or JetBrains Rider.

• Experience with source control and collaborative software development workflows using GitHub or comparable tools.

• Working knowledge of scripting languages such as Go, Bash, or Python.

• Understanding of the software development lifecycle and experience working within Agile development practices.

• Comfort developing and troubleshooting across Mac/Linux and Windows environments.

• Ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical partners in production-focused environments where reliability and responsiveness matter.

How We Do It

Success at Versant is shaped not only by what you deliver, but by how you work. We look for team members who demonstrate:

• Trust: Build credibility through sound judgment, dependable execution, and thoughtful handling of production-critical systems and data.

• Teamwork: Partner effectively with developers, designers, graphics teams, production teams, and other stakeholders to solve shared challenges.

• Transparency: Communicate clearly about requirements, technical decisions, progress, risks, and production issues.

• Agility: Adapt to evolving priorities, technologies, workflows, and the fast-moving needs of live production.

• Entrepreneurial Spirit: Identify opportunities to improve tools and processes, experiment thoughtfully, and take initiative in building scalable solutions.

Bonus Points

• Experience working with AI platforms, libraries, or models such as Google Gemini, Vertex AI, ChatGPT, or Anthropic.

• Experience managing Agile development work through tools such as Jira.

• Knowledge of databases and caching technologies such as MongoDB or Redis.

• Exposure to backend or server-side technologies including C#, Java, or C++.

• Familiarity with containerization, orchestration, and CI/CD technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, or Argo CD.

• Experience with real-time graphics platforms such as Viz Engine or Unreal Engine.

• Experience supporting newsroom, sports, broadcast, or live show production environments, including tools such as Fonn Saga or Avid iNEWS.

Why You’ll Love It Here

At Versant, you’ll have the opportunity to build technology that directly supports live content seen by audiences across our sports and media brands. You’ll work at the intersection of software development, data, graphics, and production, solving practical technical challenges where the impact of your work is visible.

You’ll join a collaborative environment where you can deepen your front-end expertise while gaining hands-on exposure to backend services, APIs, real-time data, and production technology. As Versant’s sports portfolio and technology ecosystem evolve, you’ll have opportunities to help shape the tools and workflows that support that growth.

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

For LA County and City Residents Only: VERSANT Media will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, or arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected].

VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc.

VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means.