Sport Tech & Data
Senior Software Engineer
Mid Level
Vienna, Austria
in office
Full time
Job description
About the Role
The Senior Fullstack Engineer – Web Development joins Sportradar's Ad:s division within the Programmatic Ad:s team, which develops a platform that enables customers to reach broad audiences using display, video and audio creatives while configuring targeting strategies for the best performance-to-cost ratio. The team is cross-functional and works closely with clients to understand the problems they are trying to solve, iterating in small steps so it can steer quickly when a hypothesis is not proving correct. The role covers all aspects of building scalable and performant services, from overall system architecture, data layout and data pipelines to API design and front-end UI, with responsibility for delivering functional excellence and value to the customer.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to and grow within a small, self-organised, agile software development team
- Build advertising technologies, from understanding and helping to shape requirements through to creating fully functional user-facing software
- Design and develop highly scalable, fault-tolerant systems while keeping focus on quality, observability and security
- Coach and develop team members by providing feedback and technical guidance
- Build scalable and performant services across all aspects, from overall system architecture, data layout and data pipelines to API design and front-end UI
- Deploy multiple microservices to AWS using infrastructure-as-code, using services such as Lambdas, RDS, DocumentDB, SNS, SQS and S3
- Develop both frontend and backend in TypeScript, with the two communicating via REST APIs
- Work closely with clients to understand the problems they are trying to solve, iterating in small steps to allow quick steering if a hypothesis is not proving correct
- Collaborate with the platform team on building reusable frontend components
Required Experience & Qualifications
- 3+ years of professional experience in agile software development, using one or more high-level programming languages
- Professional experience with back-end and database technologies
- Professional experience with a modern front-end framework such as Vue.js, React or similar
- Experience building microservice-oriented solutions in the cloud
- Strong collaborative mindset, with experience working closely with product, design and other engineers
- Passion for clean code and testing
- Understanding of OOP fundamentals
- Keen interest in new technologies and learning
Workplace
- Fully office-based role, as the company strongly values in-person collaboration, knowledge sharing, fast decision-making and team connection; flexible working hours are offered and certain exemptions may apply depending on location
- Office relocated in Q1/2024 to a location near the Nordbahnviertel in the 2nd district of Vienna
- Top inner-city location, excellently connected to the public transport and cycle path networks and therefore very easy to reach
- State-of-the-art infrastructure near the centre of the city
Benefits & Perks
- Collaborative environment with colleagues from all over the world, with engineering offices in Europe, Asia and the US
- Ability to shape your own workday and career via a clearly defined professional and personal development plan
- Opportunity to work with senior leadership, develop yourself and build your career within an inspiring and fast-growing company and digital sports environment
- Vibrant and inclusive community, including Women in Tech and Pride groups which welcome all participants
- Company culture that promotes social aspects, sports, physical exercise and fun
- Innovative and cross-team challenges such as ShipIt, office sports tournaments in Darts and Table Tennis, and unique beer brewing competitions
- Benefits including a retirement pension and insurance plan
- Sportradar takes over the full cost of €365 for the Öffi-Ticket (Jahreskarte)
The Application Process
The recruitment process consists of several interview stages, with a possible onsite visit and an offer at the end.
- Initial screening: a quick chat with the Talent Acquisition Partner to understand your background and expectations
- Technical theoretical interview: 60 minutes discussing your technical skills on a theoretical level with the technical team
- Technical coding interview: 60 minutes of live coding, assessing the candidate's approach, clean code and thinking process rather than the end result
- System design interview: 60 minutes to solve a high-level problem with certain requirements
- Final steps: receive final feedback, with an onsite visit possibly requested, and, if successful, an offer
About the Company
Sportradar is the world's leading sports technology company, at the intersection between sports, media and betting, and is a NASDAQ-listed, one of the fastest-growing sport-tech companies on the planet, striving to reimagine the experience of sports fans around the globe.
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