Software Engineer II

Second Spectrum is a Sports Emmy-winning data & tech division of GENIUS SPORTS that is building the next way of seeing sports by capturing the highest quality data for many of the world’s largest leagues and federations such as the NFL, NBA, EPL, MLS, and the NCAA.

The Role: Sr Full Stack Software Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to join our Product Engineering group to help build and improve our AI-based sports analytics products. This group is primarily responsible for our web and mobile applications that are used by teams, leagues, coaches, and fans. They ensure our customers have a seamless user experience within our products for the thousands of sporting events we run each year. 

What You’ll Do:

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve our customer-facing and internal applications
• Contribute to multiple layers of our stack, from our web front-end, backend APIs, and databases
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, UI/UX Designers, and other software engineers
• Assist with reliability, stability, and availability of applications
• Own reliability, stability, and availability of systems applications
• Mentor other engineers both technically and professionally
• Maintain best practices for software development, including deployment process, documentation, and adherence to and improvement of coding standards.
• Assess and drive adoption of emerging technologies and techniques
• Provide technical leadership, including code review, practices, and skill development
• Communicate technical commitments and decisions to team and external stakeholders
• Discuss and distribute knowledge, technical concepts, and ideas with any member of our diverse organization
• Participate in our engineering culture by embracing opportunities to learn from others

Our Stack:

• Client-side: ReactJS,Elm, NextJS, TypeScript, Web Components (LitElement), HTML/CSS, Design Systems
• Server-side: GraphQL, REST, NodeJS, TypeScript, Postgres, Redis, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, Auth0, Rust
• Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, ElasticCache), Docker, Linux, Terraform
• Codebase: Git with GitLab or Github

What You Have:

• 5+ years of hands-on, full-time software development experience
• Customer-focus with an understanding that shipping software involves tradeoff and collaboration
• Prior experience building production web apps using ReactJS, Elm, and NodeJS
• Experience collaborating across multiple disciplines (front-end, back-end, databases, infrastructure, and devops)
• Self-motivation and ability to work independently in an efficient manner
• Ability to articulate and make decisions about trade-offs between rapid iteration and high quality products
• Ability to take point on technical discussions and feature prioritization
• Bachelors in Computer Science or equivalent experience, with strong software engineering components

What Will Set You Apart:

• Elm, Elixir, Rust, Reactive Frameworks (RxJS)
• Experience working with Video Streaming Applications
• Experience building mobile apps (Swift/SwiftUI, Kotlin, React Native)

Our Work Environment and What You Will Benefit From:

• Flat hierarchy and collaborative management by highly qualified technical leads
• Cutting-edge products to work on 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

Apply directly or share your resume to [email protected] for more info. 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.

We Offer 

As well as a competitive salary and annual leave allowance, our benefits include health insurance, skills training and much more, depending on location.

A Bit About Us

Second Spectrum is a division of Genius Sports. Genius Sports is the official data, technology and commercial partner that powers the global ecosystem connecting sports, betting and media. 

Our mission is to champion a more sustainable sports data ecosystem that benefits all parties - from the rights holder all the way through to the fan. 

We are the trusted partner to over 500 sports organisations globally, capturing the highest quality data for many of the world’s largest leagues and federations such as the NFL, NBA, MLB, English Premier League, Serie A, FIBA and the NCAA. 

From enabling leagues to take control of their official data, to creating immersive fan experiences for sports, betting and media organisations, we are driven to the deliver the difference for our partners.