About the Role
Join a cross-platform engineering group focused on the Mobile MLB App and MLB.TV Connected TV experience, specializing in Streaming and Subscriptions. Work in outcome-driven squads to ship reliable, high-quality user experiences, maintain platform parity, and align with a shared design system.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and ship features on multiple surfaces with emphasis on media playback and subscription flows
- Partner with engineers on other platforms to deliver consistent behavior and shared contracts (APIs, analytics, entitlements, UX rules)
- Contribute to code quality, observability, and release readiness (crash reduction, performance, feature flags, rollback-friendly delivery)
- Participate in squad planning, estimation, and retrospectives; occasionally serve as mission tech lead for a focused initiative
- Integrate with our design library and token-based UI patterns; raise gaps early with design and platform owners
- Review code, mentor peers, and improve engineering practices within the team
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong experience building and shipping iOS applications in production (Swift; UIKit and/or SwiftUI)
- Solid understanding of mobile architecture, networking, state management, and error handling
- Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams (product, design, QA) with clear ownership and communication
- Comfort working in fast release cycles with testing, monitoring, and incremental rollout practices
- Pragmatic approach to tradeoffs: clarity, maintainability, and user impact over perfection
Skills
- tvOS / Apple TV (focus engine, remote interactions, TV-safe UX patterns)
- Video streaming (players, playback lifecycle, DRM-adjacent workflows, QoE)
- Subscriptions (purchase, restore, entitlements, paywalls)
- Analytics instrumentation
- Experiment-friendly feature delivery
- Shared design system adoption or contribution (components, tokens, accessibility standards)
- Android / Android TV / Fire TV
- Cross-platform parity practices
- Architectural intent
- System design
- Code verification guardrails for AI-generated implementations
- AI tools for high-impact engineering tasks (generating unit tests, documentation, managing technical debt/refactoring)
Location
- Boulder, Colorado
- New York City
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
Salary/Compensations
- $120,000 - $155,000 (Base Salary) + Bonus
Benefits
- Competitive Benefits Package
- Company 401K Contribution
- Paid Time Off and Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- Access to Free Tickets to Baseball Games & MLB.TV
- Discounts at MLB Store | MLBShop.com
- Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
- Onsite/Online Training & Development Programs
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
- Life and Accidental Death Insurance
- Pet Insurance
About the Company
- Major League Baseball (MLB) is the most historic of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.
- Employees love working at MLB because of the culture of growth, teamwork, and professionalism.
- Employees who are most successful at MLB take initiative, know how to identify problems and provide solutions, and always put the Team first.
- MLB empowers its “workforce athletes” to be at their best by engineering experiences that put employees in the best position to succeed.
- Looking for candidates who are passionate about growing America’s pastime to best serve its fans for decades to come.
Equal Opportunity
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- Colorado Residents: Colorado based applicants may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
- Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please email us at accommodations@mlb.com. Requests received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
