Senior Software Engineer at Sports Reference
Job Description
Senior Software EngineerJob Summary
Sports Reference LLC is searching for a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and test software for our 8 websites. The Engineering Department currently has 22 members consisting of Developers, Test Engineers, DevOps, and Scrum Masters.
We currently serve 20 million (and growing) monthly users on our free, ad-supported Reference Sites (Baseball-Reference.com, Basketball-Reference.com, FBref.com, etc.) and Stathead.com, our SaaS offering that provides powerful search and filtering capabilities for deeper exploration of our vast databases. In 2023, we acquired ImmaculateGrid.com, the viral baseball trivia game, and have since launched ad-supported grid games for basketball, football, hockey, and soccer.
To Apply
Please visit our jobs website at https://sports-reference-llc.breezy.hr/ and submit your resume and a cover letter for this position.
We will begin the phone interview process the week of July 13th. Applications arriving after this date will be collected, but will receive consideration at the discretion of the hiring manager based on the progress we have made in filling the position. We have provided a general outline of our interview process here: https://www.sports-reference.com/job-interview-process.html
Our Purpose and Values
We democratize data, so our users enjoy, understand, and share the sports they love.
We value:
- Respect for our users, the athletes we cover, and our team;
- Craftsmanship in building tools and products;
- Reliable tools and services that meet our users' needs every day; and
- Data democratization. We publish many data sets for emerging and underserved sports. The New York Times covered our recognition of the Negro Leagues as major leagues in the summer of 2021. We added women’s college basketball data to our site in 2023 and now have the only publicly available database of every score in women’s NCAA Division 1 history.
To meet these expectations, we encourage team members to participate in company discussions and share new ideas, features or potential solutions to problems.
Background
In this role, you will help design, build, and test complex, high-visibility technical projects for Engineering. You will work on modern web applications that serve millions of users and incorporate data from 5 sports across our 7 reference websites. As a member of an agile development team, you will be expected to produce high-quality results by contributing to projects that involve full-stack development, CI/CD workflows, and data ingestion pipelines.
Although not immediate, this role would have a small number of direct reports as the company grows.
Goals and Tasks for Your First Year (In rough order of importance)Must-Reach Goals and Tasks
- Build, test, and deploy features for modern web applications by contributing to projects that involve full-stack development, CI/CD workflows, and data ingestion pipelines. This work will be guided by more senior Software Engineers
- Actively own features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems
- Assist our skilled support and operations teams in triaging and resolving production issues
- Write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability and performance
- Sports Reference strives to be an innovative company, so we will expect you to keep up with new trends and tools that may benefit or threaten Sports Reference now or in the futureNice-to-Reach Goals and Tasks
- Help define large projects within Engineering by creating technical options, working collaboratively within the Engineering team to find the best solution for Sports Reference
- Help review and implement processes around security and complianceExpectations
- Complete projects related to company objectives as time and skills allow.
- Continue your ongoing professional development, which we will support.Qualifications and Skills
A qualified candidate will satisfy the following:
- More than three years of experience in a software development position.
- Experience managing direct reports OR
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Strong communication skills
- Proven mentoring/coaching experience
- High Emotional Intelligence
- Experience resolving interpersonal conflict
- A desire to manage people career growth, yearly goals, perform annual performance reviews, and make decisions about employees future at the company
- Evidence that you are capable of meeting many of the goals listed above.
- Have a history of getting things done (and done well).
- If you don’t think your application will have evidence that you can meet all of the 'nice-to-reach goals and tasks' above but still are interested in the job and otherwise qualify, please apply. Nobody checks every box—we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.Salary
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