Job Description
A bit about us
Do you want to join one of the world’s fastest growing sports technology companies?
Genius Sports is at the epicentre of the global network connecting sports, brands and fans through official live data. Our mission is simple. We champion a more sustainable sports data ecosystem that benefits all parties.
We’re looking for enthusiastic and ambitious people to join our talented team.
If you see yourself becoming part of a global family building the future of sports entertainment together, then come and grow with us.
We put trust in our people to deliver the difference for our clients around the world. It’s why many of the world’s largest leagues & federations such as the NFL, English Premier League, FIBA and NCAA choose to work with Genius Sports.
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer your primary focus will be the development of distributed back-end services using C#, working as part of a team with full-stack responsibilities. You will be involved in the full software life-cycle and have exposure to a broad set of technologies, including Web and Cloud. This vacancy is a perfect match for a person on or near a Tech Lead level who enjoys finding innovative solutions to technical challenges with opportunities to contribute broadly in a dynamic and collaborative team-based environment.
Main Responsibilities
- Maintain a good level of technical quality
- Have a voice on technical solutions
- Bug & incident process implementation
- Continuous improvement
- Follow best development processes
- Add testing where suitable
- Assist with DeVos work
- Partner up with PO
- Assist PO to refine requirements
- Work with PO on a rough estimate
- Help PO identifying bottlenecks/dependencies
- Help onboard team members
- Help your team members to grow by:
- Guiding them on technical and social skills development
- Coaching
- Conduct recruitment interviews
Required skills
- Knowledge of C# (.NET framework or .NET Core)
- Familiarity with SOLID and Design Patterns
- Version Control (git preferable)
- TDD/BDD and supporting technologies (NUnit, Mocking Frameworks, SpecFlow, Selenium)
- Knowledge of software design patterns and messaging patterns
- Communication and messaging technologies (HTTP, Web Sockets, RabbitMQ)
- Database and Caching Technologies (SQL, NoSql DBs etc)
- Unit and integration testing/Test automation
- Full software life-cycle experience working on complex products within Agile environments
- Enthusiasm and ability to work collaboratively within a team
- Excellent spoken and written English
- Multithreading experience
- Distributed system design
- Service oriented Architecture
- Experience in performance monitoring
- Logging and Monitoring (Graylog, Graphite/Grafana, OpsGenie, TickStack)
- Experience using SPECFlow
- Familiarity with DevOps
Desirable Skills:
- CQRS
- Domain Driven Design
- Concurrent Processing and Multi-Threading
- Event Sourcing
- Messaging and communication technologies (RabbitMQ, HTTP, TCP, REST, Web API, SignalR)
- AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, Aurora, CloudFormation, Cognito)
- Experience working in a collaborative team (Agile, Scrum, Kanban)
- Mathematical Aptitude
How we work
We have adapted a forward-thinking ‘Ways of Working’ framework, which sets out (amongst other things) the opportunities for Geniuses to work flexibly, remotely and on working holidays. It affects different teams and locations differently, so please ask for further information in how it would work with this role.
Our employees are empowered to stretch the boundaries of what’s achievable, always reaching further and pushing the edges to see what gives. We collaborate, we innovate, and we celebrate. We will continue to grow as an organisation and continue to invest in our highly talented and diverse team of Geniuses.
Genius Sports Group is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We recognize and celebrate the benefits that a diverse and inclusive workforce bring to our business, our customers and our staff. We welcome and will consider all applications regardless of age, different abilities or disability, gender re-assignment, marriage, pregnancy, maternity, race or nationality, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation (and any other applicable status). Please let us know when you apply if you need any assistance during the recruiting process due to a disability.
