Staff Software Engineer, Ad-Tech
Genius Sports is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to work on the systems and applications that power its Advertising and Fan Engagement products. These products harness the power of GeniusIQ to create important game insights in real time, connect fans to brands and advertisers, and produce differentiated next generation content.
This role favours engineers who can bring a diverse experience and perspective to modern technology challenges, and engineers who favour collaborative environments.
- Design and develop systems and applications that power our automated, real-time Advertising and Fan Engagement products.
- Own and implement features end-to-end across the stack, taking responsibility for the system lifecycle from development, deployment and support 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.
- Provide guidance and direction to product to help translate ideas into practical technical solutions.
- Design and maintain the foundational platform that powers our systems and supports development & iteration by engineering teams building on this platform.
- Design and improve testing and release strategies for complex 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.
- Provide mentorship and leadership in our local (in-office) and broader engineering community.
- Design and build mechanisms for enabling human or agent-in-the-loop workflows that validate, correct, and enhance outputs from the system.
- Experience operating distributed systems (required).
- Experience building real-time systems and interactive web frontends (required).
- Experience designing APIs and integrating services (required).
- Experience managing relational databases (schema design, indexing strategies, query optimization, performance tuning, migrations, and availability considerations) (required).
- Experience using messaging systems (partitioning strategies, broker scaling, consumer design) (required).
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience (required).
- Rust, Kotlin, TypeScript, React (nice-to-have).
- Postgres, relational databases (nice-to-have).
- Video frameworks and standards (nice-to-have).
- REST, GraphQL (nice-to-have).
- AWS, Temporal.io (nice-to-have).
- Docker, Kubernetes (nice-to-have).
- Pulsar, RabbitMQ (nice-to-have).
- The salary for this role is based on an annualized range of $240,000 - $255,000 USD.
- This role will also be eligible to take part in Genius Sports Group's benefits plan.
- As well as a competitive salary and range of benefits, the company is committed to supporting employee wellbeing and helping you grow your skills, experience and career.
Genius Sports is a sports data and technology company that supplies official data, streaming, integrity and advertising services to sports leagues, sportsbooks and media companies. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in London, with a major office in New York and others worldwide, it is the official data partner of organisations including the NFL, English Premier League and FIBA. The company provides the technology that connects sports, betting and media businesses. Genius Sports is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.