Senior Backend Engineer - Python

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 - Python at Genius Sports you will be the part of 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 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

• Solid knowledge of Javascript (NodeJs) or Java or C# or Golang or C++
• Experience 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)