Associate Software Engineer

Major League Baseball•San Francisco, CA

11h

About The Position

The Baseball Data Platform team is seeking an Associate Software Engineer. From Statcast to ABS and beyond, the Baseball Data Platform is the bedrock of all Major League Baseball stats. Used by fans, broadcasters, stadiums, MLB Clubs, and across the league, if you’ve seen a data point about baseball, there's a good chance it started here. We are seeking software engineers who possess a strong passion for developing new technologies within the baseball industry. This position provides the opportunity to collaborate with world-class engineers, product developers, and designers; contribute to acclaimed and sophisticated applications and systems; influence the innovation of products utilized by millions globally; and work within a highly collaborative, results-oriented team environment.

Requirements

An undergraduate degree computer science or related field
An avid learner, independent with excellent problem-solving skills
Willingness to dive into any part of the system to understand and deliver the best solution
Eager to learn new technologies and tools
Ability to collaborate with other engineers
Experience with modern web technologies (React, TypeScript, NodeJS)
Experience designing or consuming APIs that serve frontend applications (Java, Spring, SQL, NestJS)
Familiarity with Terraform
Exposure to Google Cloud Platform
Familiar with messaging queues: ActiveMQ, Kafka
Familiarity with SQL databases like Postgres and SQL concepts
Knowledge of big data concepts and related languages/tools, such as BigQuery or Bigtable

Responsibilities

Write clean, concise, modular code that is easily testable
Contribute to the Baseball Data API layer that powers baseball stats across the organization
Design and build consistent, easy to use UIs, working with our operations partners to ensure their needs are met
Utilize and contribute to applications deployed on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and at edge inside ballparks
Participate in an agile environment.
Participate in the full software development lifecycle (requirements gathering, designing, building, testing and maintenance)
Collaborate with other engineers in code reviews, pair programming, and design sessions
Drive innovation in products utilized by millions globally
Collaborate with leading data scientists on areas such as data analysis, machine vision, and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Introduce and champion technologies you are passionate about
Develop technology used by all 30 Major League teams, every national and regional broadcast, and across the MLB organization
Change the way baseball is consumed