Full-Stack Software Engineer

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:  Full Stack Software Engineer

We are looking for a software engineer to build web applications that run, configure, and visualize our AI-based sports analytics system. You will be working with engineers and internal operators specializing in Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, and Sports Logistics. The group ensures an end-to-end software solution runs efficiently for real-time delivery of data from thousands of sporting events every year. 
Genius Sports is building a comprehensive system responsible for producing and distributing its highest quality and lowest latency tracking, skeletal pose, eventing, and video streams to date. You will design and develop the services required to execute all parts of this process for thousands of basketball and soccer games every year.

Specifically, you can expect to:

• Develop web applications that power our Computer Vision-based tracking system.
• Contribute across our stack, from web frontend, backend API’s, and databases
• Maintain best practices for software development, including deployment process, documentation, and adherence to and improvement of coding standards.
• Discuss and distribute knowledge, technical concepts, and ideas with any member of our diverse organization
• Performance analysis and monitoring
• Ability to lead technical discussions and feature prioritization

Minimum Qualifications

• 3-5+ years software engineering experience
• Experience building web applications
• Experience with React
• Experience with SQL & relational databases
• Software engineering experience: modern software development practices and tools, distributed systems, database systems, performance tuning
• Strong appetite for learning and working with technologies used by other engineering teams within the company
• Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with TypeScript 
• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience with Three.js, HTML5 Video, and/or Canvas
• Experience with Rust
• Experience with ffmpeg
• Expertise with the Elixir packages for server-side development: Phoenix, Ecto, ex-aws
• Prior leadership responsibilities, including deploys and release management with technical and non-technical staff
• Experience building real-time, interactive web frontend experiences
   

Our Stack

• Server-side:  Node, Rust, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Golang, Pulsar, Elixir/Phoenix
• Client-side: JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Three.js, HTML/CSS
• Infrastructure: AWS EC2 and S3, Docker, Linux, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki.
• Version Control: Git

What’s in it for you? 

As well as a competitive salary and annual leave allowance, our benefits include health insurance, skills training and much more, depending on the location. We also offer a host of softer benefits, including many social events throughout the year such as summer and winter holiday parties, monthly team building events, sports tournaments, charity days and wellbeing activities.   
The base salary range for this role is $130,000 – $180,000. There are a number of factors which affect what the specific pay offer would be for this role, including location, seniority, and relevant educational and working experience. This is base salary only – all full-time roles will also be eligible to take part in Genius benefits and equity plans, and some roles may be eligible to take part in a variable compensation plan. For more details on the compensation and benefits package, please get in touch with our Talent team. 

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 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 organization 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 reassignment, 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.