Senior Backend Developer

ABOUT US: 

At Sportradar weve experienced a wonderful period of sustained hypergrowth through a highly focused strategy based upon industry leading product innovation. To continue on this trajectory we are looking to expand our development team that are working on interfaces to service sports governing bodies with the addition of an Engineer within the Python skillset. 

You will be a key member of our team fostering a strong culture of collaboration software development lifecycles and testing practices. We are looking for someone who is passionate about developing and supporting high quality software solutions. 

You will work within an Agile team who are passionate about technology and constantly looking to innovate. 

THE CHALLENGE: 

• Creating flexible systems that work across a variety of sports. 
• Maintaining existing partner applications. 
• Demonstrating attention to detail whilst implementing technical specifications. 
• Take ownership in shaping and delivering key features and products. 
• Write highquality maintainable and testable code increasing unit test coverage and confidence. 
• Lead the development of software services optimized for deployment into AWS. 
• Collaborate with and become integral to a crossfunctional team of Product Design Engineering and System Administration. 
• Work in a modern collaborative development environment using DevOps and agile principles. 

ABOUT YOU: 

• Masters or Bachelor degree in software development or other relevant area (or relevant experience). 
• Provable experience in leading a team of developers to create a high quality user experience. 
• 35 years of professional experience of software development using Python. 
• Strong MySQL & PostgreSQL knowledge. 
• Strong experience working with AWS key services (for example: API Gateway Lambda SQS Aurora S3 & Caching). 
• Curiosity and awareness of the latest technologies. 
• A cando attitude / selfmotivated with strong team working skills. 
• Experience with building systems that have significant integrations with 3rd parties both data coming in and data going out. 
• Must be comfortable with modern software development methodologies such as agile development git CI/CD code reviews etc. 

Bonus Superpowers: 

• Experience in how sport runs and operates (either as a fan participant or an administrator). 
• MongoDB or other NoSQL technology. 
• Experience with PHP. 
• Comfortable with infrastructure as code. 
• Kubernetes or other container orchestration technologies. 
• Performance profiling and tuning high throughput applications. 

OUR OFFER:                                    

• Work with stateoftheart equipment to solve our technological challenges. 
• Collaborate and support colleagues all around the world. 
• The opportunity to work and develop within an inspiring and fastgrowing company. 
• A challenging but rewarding and fun environment. 
• Work with microservice architectures cloud providers and other modern and emerging technologies. 
• The opportunity to join an exciting team making impacts on our services and our customers products. 
• Camaraderie of talented and passionate coworkers from all around the world delivering innovative products. 
• Hybrid work model. 
• New office with several additional benefits.

OUR RECRUITMENT PROCESS: 

• Initial Screening: A quick chat with our Talent Acquisition Partner to understand your background and expectations. 
• One/Two technical Interviews: Meet with the Technical team and Hiring Manager to dive into your solution and your expertise as also discuss team fit. 
• Final Steps: Receive feedback and if successful an offer! 

Additional Information :

At Sportradar we celebrate our diverse group of hardworking employees. Sportradar is committed to ensuring equal access to its programs facilities and employment opportunities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran. We encourage you to apply even if you only meet most of the requirements (but not 100% of the listed criteria) we believe skills evolve over time. If youre willing to learn and grow with us we invite you to join our team!

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime