Senior GO Developer

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

Company: 
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. We partner with the largest sport federations in the world including UEFA, NBA, NHL, MLB, ATP, ITF and many more. 

Overview: 
Join our AudioVisual Tribe, where you'll work on high-load applications, ensuring high stability and seamless delivery of live match streams to end users. Our clients are spread across multiple countries and continents, making our work truly global. With an end product visible to thousands of customers every day and used 24/7, you’ll have the opportunity to make a real impact in a high-availability environment, delivering top performance and reliability. 

Working as a Go Developer, you will be responsible for implementing back-end applications in collaboration with the Frontend team. Most of the team's daily tasks involve working with Golang, React, GraphQL, MySQL, Docker, Kubernetes with application hosted on the cloud (AWS). Our project has extensive documentation in Confluence, and we organize our work in Jira, following Scrum methodologies. 
Interested in learning React and expanding your skill set to become a full-stack developer? Join our team! 
Responsibilities: 

• Utilize advanced knowledge in Go, and modern development practices to lead and guide the team in organising themselves around optimal solutions, ensuring high test coverage and overall code quality 

• Participate in code reviews and promote best coding practices 

• Minimizing technical debt, troubleshoot and continuously improve core product features 

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional team, including Product Owner, QA, Tech Leads, DevOps, and stakeholders who use the application daily 

Requirements: 

• Significant years of hands-on industry experience as a software engineer with at least 5+ years working with Go in production 

• Familiarity with web APIs (REST / GraphQL) 

• Knowledge of Protocol Buffers, gRPC and Websockets 

• Good knowledge of SQL databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) 

• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS) 

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline (GitLab) 

• Knowledge of (or interest in learning) modern software system observability stack e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic 

• Experience in writing tests in Go and willingness to practice TDD and pair programming 

• Understanding of distributed high-load systems, fault tolerance, data synchronization, and state management 

• Communication in English is a must

Our offer: 

• Competitive salary and benefits as well as employee equity program 

• Flexible working hours, hybrid approach to achieve work-life balance 

• Time to learn new technologies, tools and to use them in practice 

• Grow as an engineer within an inspiring and fast-growing company and become a domain expert in the exciting world of real-time sports data 

• Stable job in a multi-national team (from offices all over the world) 

• Benefits (Multisport card, medical insurance) 

Additional Information

At Sportradar, we celebrate our diverse group of hardworking employees. Sportradar is committed to ensuring equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment opportunities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. We encourage you to apply even if you only meet most of the requirements (but not 100% of the listed criteria) – we believe skills evolve over time. If you’re willing to learn and grow with us, we invite you to join our team!