Senior Backend Engineer - Java

About Genius Sports

Genius Sports is more than a technology provider. We build long-term relationships with sports leagues and governing bodies, helping them take control of their data so they can drive revenue and engage fans. We provide a unique combination of technical and sporting expertise, round-the-clock support and change management.

Position

As a Senior Backend Engineer - Java at Genius Sports you will be a part of our Agile Development team, you will work with the latest technologies to develop microservices and API's as part of a large and service orientated architecture to provide real-time sport related data to a large and demanding customer base comprising Sporting Associations, Sports Betting, and Media companies. Your primary focus will be the development of backend components that interact with other services, high volume real-time data, scalable and highly reliable APIs and machine learning models - all of this high volume and real time. You will be working as part of a team with full stack and Dev Ops responsibilities owning the full software life-cycle and have exposure to a broad set of technologies, including Web and Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Analysis of requirements from external and internal customers
• Design and development of new software products and components
• Producing high quality, tested and maintainable code
• Investigation and resolution of issues reported by internal and external customers

Your qualification

• Strong knowledge of Javascript (NodeJs) or Java or C# or Golang or C++
• Familiarity with Agile development techniques including Unit Testing (TDD), Integration testing, DevOps best practices
• Enthusiasm and ability to work collaboratively within a team
• Excellent spoken and written English

Will be a plus

• Concurrent Processing and Multi-Threading
• Logging and Monitoring (Graylog, Graphite/Grafana, OpsGenie, thick stack)