Software Engineer (Sports Media)

About Sportradar

Were the worlds leading sports technology company at the intersection between sports media and betting. More than 1700 sports federations media outlets betting operators and consumer platforms across 120 countries rely on our know-how and technology to boost their business.

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Job Description

Our Sports Media Team is seeking a passionate Sr. Software Engineer who loves to solve problems build cloud native solutions and excels on cross functional teams of talented peers. What does the Sports Media Team work on

We build platforms and products that collect curate distribute analyze and personalize sports data and content.

We have exclusive data rights with top leagues like MLB NBA NHL and NASCAR where we own the rights to data coming from the stadium (even player tracking and optical tracking data) For other leagues/sports like NFL NCAA Basketball NCAA Football Golf and more we build custom tooling used by our scouting network. We pride ourselves on delivering the fastest and most accurate live game data on the market and the systems our team builds make that possible. Through our Sports APIs we empower developers from thousands of customers like Apple Google Amazon Facebook The Score Bleacher Report and many more to create their own products powered by our data. With our Analytics Products and Broadcast Solutions we empower storytellers from Fox Sports Bally Sports CBS Sports NBC Sports and more to create storylines around the action and to create the broadcast seem by millions of fans on TV. For example if you watch the World Series Super Bowl or just your team playing on TV and wonder how the announcers know all those stats and storylines and how they power all those graphic overlays well that is our doing.

What you will do as a Sr. Software Engineer:

Design build test and deploy cloud-native solutions used by our Enterprise Customers supporting billions of calls per month with hundreds of millions of TV viewers.

Work on an empowered cross functional team with Product Engineering Design and DevOps to deliver on your teams core mission.

Partner with architecture and external development teams to design highly aligned services with clear separation of concerns.

Advocate and optimize your teams applications for maximum speed scale security and maintainability through best practices.

Participate in Pull/Merge Request reviews to ensure high quality

Be a trusted member of your team fostering a strong culture of collaboration and best practices in the software development lifecycle.

Skills And Qualifications:

3 years of experience in professional software development designing and building systems

Experience with data-driven architecture and systems design (RESTful APIs microservices architecture. GraphQL experience is a plus!)

Experience with scalable maintainable reliable production software

Proficiency utilizing SQL NoSQL In-memory stores at scale

Experience with Software as a Service (SaaS)

Experience working in a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) model including GitLab/GitHub and CI pipeline automation tools

Proven success working in Agile environments (Scrum Kanban etc.)

Bonus

Strong understanding and implementation of cloud-native architectures (AWS serverless and/or containers preferred) at scale in production (or a strong desire for to learn this and gain these skills)

The Primary Stack Note: Some of the stack may vary depending on specific team or systems. We have roles open across our stack!

JavaScript TypeScript Ruby

React

PostgreSQL MySQL Redis Document/MongoDB AuroraDB

Kafka RabbitMQ SQS Event Bridge

AWS Kubernetes Lambdas

React SPAs

GraphQL

OUR OFFER:

• A collaborative environment with colleagues from all over the world (Engineering offices in Europe Asia and US) including various social events and teambuilding. 

• Flexibility to manage your workday and tasks with autonomy. 

• A balance of structure and autonomy to tackle your daily tasks. 

• Vibrant and inclusive community including Women in Tech and Pride groups which welcome all participants. 

• Global Employee Assistance Programme. 

• Calm and Reulay app (leading well-being apps designed to support focus quality rest mindfulness and long-term mental resilience). 

• Online training videos. 

• Flexible working hours. 

OURRECRUITMENTPROCESS:

• Initial Screening: A quick chat with our Talent Acquisition Partner to understand your background and expectations. 

• Coding Sessions: Two live coding session to test your skills and knowledge. 

• Onsite Coding Session: Meet with the local team and take a tour of our office for a meet-and-greet and a final Coding Session on our offices.

• Finals Steps: Receive feedback and if successful an offer! 

Dont meet every single requirement At Sportradar we are dedicated to building a diverse inclusive and authentic workplace so if youre excited about this role but your experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification in the job description we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Additional Information :

At Sportradar we celebrate our diverse group of hardworking employees. Sportradar is committed to ensuring equal access to its programs facilities and employment opportunities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran. We encourage you to apply even if you only meet most of the requirements (but not 100% of the listed criteria) we believe skills evolve over time. If youre willing to learn and grow with us we invite you to join our team!

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time