Senior Frontend Engineer

In 2021, Genius Sports acquired Second Spectrum, a world leader in optical tracking and video augmentation technology. Powered by an incredibly driven and ambitious team of engineers, Second Spectrum is the number one tech to work on if you’re interested in machine learning, artificial intelligence or development engineering in sports.

Remote Front-end Software Engineer

We are looking for a senior software engineer with development experience to build upon and improve web applications that run, configure, and visualize our AI-based sports analytics system. The Systems Group is at the intersection of computer vision, data/AI, and software data delivery. The group ensures machine learning and computer vision algorithms run efficiently for real-time delivery of thousands of sporting events every year. We provide a robust execution framework and user interface features for an increasingly-autonomous software product.

Responsibilities & duties

• Develop React applications that power the execution of our Computer Vision-based tracking system.
• Contribute to multiple layers of our stack, from our web front-end, backend api’s, and databases
• Maintain best practices for software development, including deployment process, documentation, and adherence to and improvement of coding standards.
• Discuss and distribute knowledge, technical concepts, and ideas with any member of our diverse organization

Our Stack

• Server-side: Elixir/Phoenix, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Node, Rust, Golang, Pulsar
• Client-side: JavaScript/TypeScript, React, three.js, HTML/CSS
• Infrastructure: AWS EC2 and S3, Docker, Linux, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki.
• Revision Control: Git

Required skills & experience

• 3-5+ years’ experience with front-end software engineering
• Experience with two of: 1) TypeScript/Node/React, 2) SQL
• Software engineering experience: modern software development practices and tools, distributed systems, database systems, performance tuning
• Strong appetite for learning and working with technologies used by other engineering teams within the company
• Performance analysis and monitoring
• Ability to lead technical discussions and feature prioritization
• Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent experience, with strong software engineering components

Desirable skills

• Expertise with the Elixir packages for server-side development: Phoenix, Ecto, ex-aws
• Experience with full stack development, including front-end in React.js, TypeScript
• Experience with GraphQL
• Experimentation or production experience in Rust
• Experience with database design and normalization
• Experience with load balancing, cookie, and session management
• Prior leadership responsibilities, including deploys and release management with technical and non-technical staff