Company Description
We’re the world’s leading sports technology company, at the intersection between sports, media, and betting. More than 1,700 sports federations, media outlets, betting operators, and consumer platforms across 120 countries rely on our know-how and technology to boost their business.
Job Description
Based in Wroclaw, Poland
Job Type: Permanent Contract (UoP)
OVERVIEW:
Join our Data Acquisition Tribe and become a part of the global fast-growing success of Sportradar. A technology first software development company with high emphasis on achieving technical excellence and building services on best practice cloud principles. Mutually beneficial partnerships are the cornerstone of our business. We partner with the largest sport federations in the world including UEFA, NBA, NHL, MLB, ITF and many more. Our vision is built on long-term relationships with all our clients, backed by innovative and competitive services and solutions. We build our own product and believe in ‘you build it, you own it’, so we want to give our squads autonomy to choose the right solutions.
By joining our team, you'll see us working on exciting projects using a modern technical stack to drive innovation and excellence. You will contribute to a clean code base with solid code coverage, ensuring the highest standards in software development. We value creative input, providing an environment where your ideas are not only welcomed, but encouraged. Enjoy the freedom to present your point of view and the flexibility to make key technical decisions that shape the future of our project.
THE CHALLENGE:
- Due to our success, we are continuously hiring motivated engineers and we want to ensure we scale our engineering leadership accordingly
- In Data Acquisition Tribe we create solutions to collect sports data globally for more than 60 different sports
- We want to build yet better solutions and we want to give you a real opportunity to influence design and technology choices.
JOB PROFILE:
We are looking for an engineering leader who loves working with both people and software. We expect that you, as a leader, are passionate about building an environment where software engineers can achieve their full potential. As an engineer, you have a great understanding of modern development techniques and can be a partner for the team to choose the best solutions. We expect that you can be an advocate of clean code, and clean architecture, TDD (Test Driven Development), pair programming and always welcome feedback. You will be given a lot of autonomy and we want you to use the most of it and drive the team towards technical excellence. We hope you feel learning is a natural part of your workday and you have a high interest in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise. In the role you will:
- Lead a team of diverse and talented software engineers with various levels of expertise.
- Coach engineers to grow, by supporting and giving them frequent feedback, setting individual goals, and assessing performance.
- Facilitate technical discussions and help to make the best decisions.
- Be a member of the Tribe Engineering Leadership Team shaping the culture and engineering practices of the entire Tribe.
- Contribute to the code (we do not need you to be the best programmer in the team, but we believe in ‘walk the talk’)
Required:
- Experience in building and leading motivated, high performing teams working in an agile environment
- Hands-on experience with TypeScript and both frontend (React) and backend (Node.js) frameworks
- Excellent communication skills, ability to engage colleagues to thoughtfully work toward a single goal and help the team to adapt and succeed when things do not go exactly as planned.
- Broad technical experience to understand the complexity of services the squad develops, challenge ideas and facilitate technical discussion.
- Practical coding experience with particular focus on good practices like clean code, design patterns, TDD, pair programming etc.
Desirable experience:
- Experience with cloud native applications (preferably AWS)
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes
OUR OFFER:
- Work and develop within an inspiring and fast-growing company and become a domain expert in the exciting world of real-time sports data
- Build a high performing team of your dreams
- Grow as a leader with our engineering leadership team
- Shape the culture of our brand-new Wroclaw office
- Influence the future of Sportradar, you will be directly contributing to products used by our clients in the global sports business
- Enjoy a high degree of freedom, decide on your own workday, choose methods and solutions that you know will bring the most value
- Collaborate with colleagues from all over the world (Engineering offices in Europe, Asia and US)
- Be a part of a company, which culture promotes social aspects, sports, physical exercise, and fun.
- Competitive salary and benefits
Qualifications
Additional Information
Sportradar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to encourage diversity within our teams. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to among other things, your background, status, or personal preferences
