Senior Software Engineer GeniusIQ

By bringing together next-gen technology and the finest live data available Genius Sports is enabling a new era of sports for fans worldwide delivering experiences that are more immersive interactive and personalized than ever before. Learn more at geniussports.com   

The Role – Senior Software Engineer

We are looking for a senior software engineer to work on the systems and applications that power our automated real-time GeniusIQ products. You will collaborate with Computer Vision and AI/Machine Learning teams to take models from research to production ensuring they run reliably and efficiently in live environments. This includes building the services orchestration layers configuration tooling monitoring and alerting systems and internal operator interfaces required to manage visualize correct/enrich and scale our automated data pipelines across thousands of global sporting events each year. 
 
What You'll Do 

• Design and develop systems and applications that power our automated real-time GeniusIQ products including tracking data analytics and event feeds video products and officiating technologies. 

• Own and implement features end-to-end across the stack taking responsibility for the system lifecycle from configuring and managing on-premise hardware through reliable real-time delivery of critical products to customers. 

• Lead technical discussions drive architectural decisions and identify opportunities to improve scalability automation and operational efficiency as we expand across new leagues and sports globally. 

• Design and maintain the foundational GeniusIQ platform that powers our live systems and supports development & iteration by other engineering teams building on this platform. 

• Design and improve testing and release strategies for complex distributed systems — including backend services web applications data pipelines messaging and streaming services real-time model inference systems and on-site hardware components. 

• Monitor analyze and continuously improve system performance reliability and scalability. Build solutions for simulating and replaying live inputs system and metadata validation automated evaluation and regression testing and observability and alerting. 

• Design and build mechanisms for enabling human or agent-in-the-loop workflows that validate correct and enhance outputs from the system. 

  
What You’ll Bring:   

• Experience operating distributed systems. 

• Experience building real-time interactive web frontends. 

• Experience designing APIs and integrating services. 

• Experience managing relational databases (schema design indexing strategies query optimization performance tuning migrations and availability considerations). 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience. 

 
It’ll be a bonus if you know: 

• Rust Elixir TypeScript Go C++ Python 

• Postgres relational databases 

• React Three.js HTML5 Video and/or Canvas 

• REST GraphQL and gRPC APIs 

• Systems that run inference with Computer Vision or AI/Machine Learning models 

• AWS Temporal.io 

• Docker Kubernetes 

• Pulsar RabbitMQ 

• WebAssembly 

The base salary range for this role is $175000 - $220000. This role will also be eligible to take part in Genius Sports Group's benefits plan. 

We enjoy an ‘office-first’ culture and maximize opportunities to collaborate connect and learn together. Our hybrid working models differ depending on your role and location. Occasional travel may be required. 

As well as a competitive salary and range of benefits we’re committed to supporting employee wellbeing and helping you grow your skills experience and career. Learn more about how rewarding life at Genius can be at Reward | Genius Sports.  

One team being brave driving change   

We strive to create an inclusive working environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging and the ability to make a difference. Learn more about our values and culture at Culture | Genius Sports.   

Let us know when you apply if you need any assistance during the recruiting process due to a disability. 

What We Do

Genius Sports is the layer between what happens on the field and how the world engages with it. Our solutions across the global sports ecosystem are underpinned by our next generation big data and artificial intelligence platform GeniusIQ. By ingesting and computing multiple real-time data feeds GeniusIQ powers a wide range of functions and applications across sports performance and officiation fan engagement advertising and sports betting. Founded in 2001 Genius Sports is now one of the world’s largest sports technology companies working with the likes of the NFL NBA EPL FIBA ESPN Sky Sports Flutter DraftKings and 100s more. We're headquartered in New York and London with offices in Los Angeles Medellin Tallinn Sofia Singapore Lausanne Manchester and Melbourne.

Why Work With Us

We are one team being brave driving change. Our company values help create a cohesive culture where we think feel and act like One Genius. We strive to create an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging and the ability to make a difference driving our vision to be everywhere in sports redefining experiences through technology.

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