Senior Software Engineer
Sportradar ad:s provides data-driven marketing and sponsorship services to the iGaming industry, with purpose-built tools and services for sportsbooks and media publishers worldwide. The Sports Data team builds and maintains the data pipelines and processing systems that power the entire division, delivering clean, reliable, and real-time data through scalable services and APIs. By using cloud-native technologies, automated pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC), the team ingests, processes, and distributes high-quality data at scale.
As a Senior Software Engineer for Sports Data at Sportradar, the role involves working on various parts of the software stack, contributing to API development, testing, and documentation. The position is within a collaborative cross-functional team and plays a crucial role in delivering quality software that provides business value. This is an opportunity for engineers passionate about using cutting-edge technologies to build scalable, reliable systems, and who enjoy solving technical challenges, learning from peers, and growing in an innovative environment.
- Contribute and grow as part of a small, self-organised, agile software development team.
- Build robust and scalable back-end services and APIs for advertising technologies using modern frameworks and tools.
- Participate in designing and developing reliable, secure, and efficient data pipelines and systems while keeping focus on quality, observability, and security.
- Coach and develop team members by providing feedback and technical guidance.
- 4+ years of professional experience in agile software development (required)
- Professional experience developing in at least one high-level programming language (required)
- Professional experience with at least one of back-end related technologies such as Go, Node.js, Python, .Net or Java, etc. (required)
- Passion for clean code and testing (required)
- Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns (required)
- Keen interest in new technologies and learning (required)
- Familiar with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP or Azure (required)
- Enjoy helping other engineers on your team to improve their skills (development and soft skills) (nice-to-have)
- Take ownership, proactively lead changes and improvements to best practices and code-base (nice-to-have)
- Full stack developer with a focus on backend development (nice-to-have)
- A collaborative environment with colleagues from all over the world.
- Ability to shape your own workday and career via a clearly defined professional and personal development plan.
- Opportunity to work with senior leadership, develop yourself and build your career within an inspiring and fast-growing company and digital sports environment.
- A vibrant and inclusive community, including Women in Tech and Pride groups.
- A company culture that promotes social aspects, sports, physical exercise and fun.
- Innovative and cross-team challenges like ShipIt, office sports tournaments in Darts and Table Tennis and unique beer brewing competitions.
- Competitive salary and benefits (e.g. retirement pension and insurance plan).
- Sportradar takes over the full costs of € 365.- for the Öffi-Ticket (Jahreskarte) for you.
- State-of-the-art infrastructure near the center of the city.
Sportradar is a global sports technology company that collects, analyses and distributes sports data to betting operators, sports leagues and media companies. Headquartered in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and founded in 2001, it provides betting services, managed trading, integrity monitoring and audiovisual streaming across hundreds of sports. The company holds official data partnerships with organisations including the NBA, NHL, FIFA and ICC. Sportradar is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange and employs several thousand people worldwide.
