Software Engineer
As the world’s leading sports data and technology company, STATS powers sports. We are trusted by more than 800 clients around the globe to enhance fan engagement and maximize team performance by analyzing sports data from more than 100,000 games a year with unrivaled speed and accuracy. We power sports on and off the field through data feeds, video analysis, sports content and research, player tracking through STATS SportVU®, and customizable digital solutions.
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• Contribute to all aspects of the services under the team’s ownership, which includes design, implementation, refactoring, automated testing, deployment, and uptime of the services.
• Building technology the right way; for us, this means simple, well-tested services and tools that gradually grow over time, and that provide plenty of insight into production usage and performance.
• Create unit and acceptance tests, in collaboration with the Quality Assurance team
What You’ll Need:
• Less than 4 years of relevant back-end software development experience
• Strong software development fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, problem solving, OO Design, and system architecture).
• Good diagnostic, analytical, design and communication skills
• Ability to craft simple and elegant solutions to complex problems.
• Expertise in at least one of the following - Java, C# and/or other Object Oriented Programming Languages
• Experience with SOA architectures and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with Oracle or other relational databases.
• Experience with Agile development processes.
• BS degree in Computer Science or related experience.
Bonus Skills:
• Experience building event-driven or message-driven architecture using tools like RabbitMQ and Kafka
• Experience building and designing highly scalable services, and RESTful API’s that power real-time and non-real-time data pipelines.
• Experience with Cassandra, MongoDb or other NoSQL databases
• Experience working with Apache Storm, Apache Spark or other open-source big data technologies
• Experience with CI/CD workflows and tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, and/or AppVeyor
• Experience with Atlassian suite of tools (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket)
• Experience with Python scripting
• Experience with Node.js microservice development
STATS provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or genetics.