Job Description

Make the Sportradar team smarter, faster, and stronger. Come work for and shape one of the fastest growing sports tech companies in the world.

As a market innovator, Sportradar is valued at $5 billion+, backed by prominent investors Ted Leonsis and Michael Jordan, and a partner to the top leagues and federations around the world including the NBA, MLB, FIFA and UEFA.

We are a founder-led company with a fast-paced, growth-focused spirit that invites employees to pave their own path and make a personal impact in driving the company forward.
This position offers tremendous opportunities to work with the only company that delivers on-demand professional-level basketball, baseball, and hockey analytics linked to supporting video to nearly 1500 pro teams, international, and college teams. Our systems are highly complex and contain petabytes of data and video requiring extremely talented engineers to maintain the scale and efficiency of its products.

As a member of the engineering team you will contribute to the ongoing development of our revolutionary online sports data and video delivery solutions, building applications such as:

• Sports Analytic Systems
• Data Logging and annotation Systems
• Computer Vision, Video and Game Pipeline for Operations Systems
• Backend Data and Video API Platforms

Our work environment is geographically distributed. The successful candidate must be comfortable working with online collaboration tools for all communication and interaction in English.

We are a globally distributed team and we work on an asynchronous model with flexibility of when and where you want to perform your job, while still being able to attend team calls and regular meetings. Personal initiative and a strong work ethic are highly encouraged and rewarded.

The company provides a very transparent freedom and responsibilities culture to all our teams. We strongly believe striking the balance between work and family is very important and our culture is focused on the well-being of our team and their loved ones.

Team Objectives & Responsibilities

The candidate joining the Customer Portals team can expect to work on the following types of projects and tasks:

• Creating internal and external APIs to support both data and video
• Building complex data models supporting mission critical workflows and data management
• Building rich user interfaces across multiple technologies and platforms
• Scaling out current systems to support new sports and new features
• Writing tests and doing code reviews
• Proposing directions to improve operational processes and methodologies

Key Requirements and Attributes

• Advanced Angular 2+ and Typescript (4 years’ experience or more)
• Strong experience with reactive programming using RxJS
• Extensive software engineering background (8 years’ experience or more)
• Design patterns and the ability to define and drive software architecture
• Good communication skills, self-motivation, and the ability to work effectively with minimal supervision
• Complex problem-solving skills
• A strong sense of ownership, self-leadership and responsibility

Bonus Superpowers

• C# / .NET with a preference to .NET Core
• Experience designing, implementing and consuming REST APIs
• Fundamental knowledge of UX, UI and SEO
• Experience using other SPA technologies like React/Next, Vue/Nuxt, Svelte etc.
• MongoDB or other NoSql technology
• MySQL or other SQL DB
• Previous experience leading a team
• Experience working in a remote environment
• MongoDB or other NoSql technology
• MySQL or other SQL DB
• Previous experience leading a team

Benefits
Big problems, massive impact. We’re working on big scalability challenges and our flat structure means individuals have an incredible amount of impact on everything they touch.
A-players only. Join our team of best-in-class engineers to disrupt the sports industry and learn, share and grow with great peers on a daily basis.
A culture geared towards innovation and experimentation. From Deep learning and Computer vision to Kubernetes and the latest cloud technologies.

Additional Information

Sportradar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to encourage diversity within our teams. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to among other things, your background, status, or personal preferences