Senior Software Engineer (Sports Media)
Sportradar is seeking a passionate Senior Software Engineer to join the Sports Media Team. This role involves solving complex problems and building cloud-native solutions within a cross-functional team of talented peers. The team is responsible for building platforms and products that collect, curate, distribute, analyse, and personalise sports data and content.
The successful candidate will work on systems that deliver fast and accurate live game data, supporting billions of calls per month for millions of TV viewers. The role involves collaborating with product, engineering, design, and DevOps teams to deliver high-quality software that powers sports data for major global customers and broadcast partners.
- Design, build, test, and deploy cloud-native solutions used by enterprise customers.
- Work on an empowered cross-functional team with product, engineering, design, and DevOps to deliver on the team's core mission.
- Partner with architecture and external development teams to design highly aligned services with clear separation of concerns.
- Advocate and optimise team applications for maximum speed, scale, security, and maintainability through best practices.
- Participate in pull and merge request reviews to ensure high quality.
- Mentor and work closely with less experienced engineers to help them grow and deliver quality products.
- Act as a trusted member of the team, fostering a strong culture of collaboration and best practices in the software development lifecycle.
- 6+ years of experience in professional software development, designing and building systems (required)
- Experience with data-driven architecture and systems design (RESTful APIs, microservices architecture) (required)
- GraphQL experience (nice-to-have)
- Experience with scalable, maintainable, reliable production software (required)
- Proficiency utilising SQL, NoSQL, In-memory stores at scale (required)
- Demonstrated understanding and implementation of software design principles such as SOLID (required)
- Experience with Software as a Service (SaaS) (required)
- Experience working in a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) model, including GitLab/GitHub and CI pipeline automation tools (required)
- Proven success working in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) (required)
- Strong understanding and implementation of cloud-native architectures (AWS serverless and/or containers preferred) at scale in production (preferred)
- A collaborative environment with colleagues from all over the world (Engineering offices in Europe, Asia and US) including various social events and teambuilding.
- Flexibility to manage your workday and tasks with autonomy.
- A balance of structure and autonomy to tackle your daily tasks.
- Vibrant and inclusive community, including Women in Tech and Pride groups which welcome all participants.
- Global Employee Assistance Programme.
- Access to Calm and Reulay app (leading well-being apps designed to support focus, quality rest, mindfulness, and long-term mental resilience).
- Online training videos.
- Flexible working hours.
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.