Senior Software Engineer

Our mission is to improve the performance of athletes and teams which we do by engineering the premier technology platform for sport. Weve been at the forefront of sports technology and science since 2006 - we dont just work in the sporting industry we are actively changing its future. Our solutions are designed to help athletes and coaches play smart in a world where 1% can literally mean the difference between winning and losing.

We work with over 4600 teams around the world empowering coaches managers and trainers in premier teams in the NFL NBA NHL MLS EPL AFL NRL NCAA and more. We provide the information they need to optimize athletes health game-day readiness and performance as well as in-game tactics. Our solutions include wearable technology video analytics and athlete monitoring solutions and we are passionate about helping sports organizations at all levels to better scout recruit teach and win.

WE WANT PEOPLE WHO ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY

We are looking for a talented Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer with a drive to build quality products.

This role offers the opportunity to contribute across multiple applications and throughout the entire technology stack from databases and backend services to APIs and front-end development.

Based in Cologne you will be a key player in the Engineering team working on the IMPECT family of applications. Youll contribute to IMPECTs internal services that power our data ecosystem sourcing and managing data from external providers ingesting and recording video content and enabling large-scale event collection and annotation. Youll also help build and evolve the systems that support our data collection workforce including tools for task assignment progress tracking deadline management quality assurance and accurate addition youll develop database-driven tools that ensure consistency and detect anomalies safeguarding data quality when integrating multiple data sources. IMPECTs applications are written in modern frameworks and provide exciting challenges. As a Senior Full Stack Engineer youll be part of a highly motivated team building and evolving the core services that power our data collection platform forming the foundation for the applications we deliver to our customers.

We believe that our customers deserve to have the leading technology and we are on a mission to make the best possible products to enhance their performance. Our engineers drive this ethos by making sure all of this technology comes together in a way our customers love to use.

WHAT YOULL DO

• Contribute to the full software development lifecycle including requirements gathering design implementation testing and deployment.
• Build and maintain Angular web applications
• Build and maintain Java Spring Boot APIs and backend services that power our applications
• Design and implement database schema
• Profile and optimize query performance in backend applications
• Engage in architectural discussions to help design scalable and resilient systems.
• Work directly with Product and Design on scoping and designing features
• Work in multidisciplinary teams and interface with other engineers in our team and across various domains.
• Document your work in a shared knowledge base platform.

WHAT YOULL NEED

• At least 5 years of software development experience.
• Demonstrated experience programming in Typescript Javascript and Angular
• Demonstrated experience programming in Kotlin Java.
• Demonstrated experience working in SQL and designing database schema
• Ability to reason about and debug complex systems and applications
• Experience with Git code management is highly desired.

Other Requirements:

• Very strong attention to detail.
• Proven self-starter.
• Ability to communicate well both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to prioritise and a can-do attitude.
• Occasionally providing technical assistance to our customer support team

WHY CATAPULT

• We have amazing people. We can promise you will work with some of the most ambitious and intelligent people in an exciting industry and you will do some of the best work of your life.
• We encourage our people to have constructive open and honest communication in order to make Catapult extraordinary; innovate and create smart solutions; establish a collaborative yet challenging environment to develop our performance and the performance of our customers.
• Our workforce spans more than 20 countries youll have the opportunity to work across multiple nationalities and cultures and build your global awareness and capability
• We value improvement and development. We are challenging ourselves to continuously grow and become a high-performance company. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and our people are always looking for ways to do things better. There is unlimited opportunity to grow do more and do better.

Whether youre interested in sports or not youll have the satisfaction of knowing your work is supporting some of the most successful teams and athletes on the planet!

Research shows that while men apply for jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria women and other marginalized groups tend only to apply when they check every box. So if you have what it takes but dont meet every single point in our job ad please still get in touch! We would love to have a chat and see if you could be a great addition to our team. We are building the future of sports performance. Our priority is to find the brightest talent who can add to our team culture actively contribute and be excited about what they do.

All offers of employment are subject to Catapults positive prehire check. To find out more please contact the Talent Partner for this role.