Senior Frontend Engineer

Second Spectrum is building the next way of seeing sports. We deliver unique and innovative solutions through unparalleled capabilities in machine understanding of sports.

• We are the official tracking and analytics provider of the English Premier League, NBA, and MLS and have numerous clients across multiple sports at the team, league, and media levels.
• We developed a real-time video augmentation pipeline that powers the innovative content featured in products like the award-winning Clippers CourtVision, and has also been used by ESPN, Turner Sports, BT Sport, FOX, and International NBA League Pass.
• We produce the most accurate tracking data with the fastest high-quality output by leveraging the most automated and extensible solution in the market.

We are constantly innovating. We believe that technology will revolutionize the way that sports are played, coached, and experienced, and that the work to make this happen has just begun.

The Role: 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.

What You’ll Do:

• 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

What You Have:

• 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

What Sets You Apart:

• 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

Our Work Environment and What You Will Benefit From:

• Flat hierarchy and collaborative management by highly-qualified technical leads
• Developing cutting-edge products that serve for major professional sports leagues and teams
• Team-oriented, start-up mindset, innovative and dynamic environment, which encourages growth and provides opportunities to make an impact

As a general approach, we interview for aptitude over specific technologies or languages. Please be prepared to speak to anything listed on your resume or in your portfolio.