About the Role
We are looking for a staff software engineer to work on the systems and applications that power our Advertising and Fan Engagement products. These products harness the power of GeniusIQ to create important game insights in real time, connect fans to brands and advertisers, and produce differentiated next-generation content. This role favors engineers who can bring diverse experience and perspectives to modern technology challenges and who thrive in collaborative environments.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop systems and applications that power automated, real-time Advertising and Fan Engagement products.
- Own and implement features end-to-end across the stack, taking responsibility for the system lifecycle from development, deployment, and support of critical products to customers.
- Lead technical discussions, drive architectural decisions, and identify opportunities to improve scalability, automation, and operational efficiency.
- Provide guidance and direction to product to help translate ideas into practical technical solutions.
- Design and maintain the foundational platform that powers our systems and supports development & iteration by engineering teams.
- Design and improve testing and release strategies for complex systems, including backend services, web applications, data pipelines, messaging and streaming services, real-time model inference systems, and on-site hardware components.
- Monitor, analyze, and continuously improve system performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Provide mentorship and leadership in our local (in-office) and broader engineering community.
- Design and build mechanisms for enabling human or agent-in-the-loop workflows that validate, correct, and enhance outputs from the system.
Requirements
- Experience operating distributed systems.
- Experience building real-time systems and interactive web frontends.
- Experience designing APIs and integrating services.
- Experience managing relational databases (schema design, indexing strategies, query optimization, performance tuning, migrations, and availability considerations).
- Experience using messaging systems (partitioning strategies, broker scaling, consumer design).
Skills
- Rust
- Kotlin
- TypeScript
- React
- Postgres
- REST
- GraphQL
- AWS
- Temporal.io
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Pulsar
- RabbitMQ
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Office-first
Experience Level
- Staff
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Salary/Compensations
- $240,000 - $255,000 USD
Benefits
- Benefits plan
- Support employee wellbeing
- Help you grow your skills, experience and career
About the Company
- By bringing together next-gen technology and the finest live data available, Genius Sports is enabling a new era of sports for fans worldwide, delivering experiences that are more immersive, interactive and personalized than ever before.
- We enjoy an ‘office-first’ culture and maximize opportunities to collaborate, connect and learn together.
- One team, being brave, driving change.
- We strive to create an inclusive working environment, where everyone feels a sense of belonging and the ability to make a difference.
Equal Opportunity
- Let us know when you apply if you need any assistance during the recruiting process due to a disability.
