Software Engineer, Baseball Enterprise

Major League Baseball•Boulder, CO

9d•$120,000 - $155,000

About The Position

Major League Baseball is hiring a Software Engineer to build and operate core platforms supporting business across Clubs and League operations. These platforms span roster and player lifecycle management, broadcast and content operations, high-scale APIs for clubs and the amateur ecosystem, real-time on-field game workflows, event operations and logistics, and tools supporting umpires. The engineer will build and own production applications and services, collaborating with an agile team to deliver reliable, high-performance solutions. The role includes developing and maintaining backend services and user interfaces, diagnosing production issues, contributing throughout the software development lifecycle, improving software quality, using AI tools responsibly with human review, and continuing to learn across backend, frontend, data, and cloud technologies. The position also participates in a minimally interruptive on-call rotation.

Requirements

At least 2 years of professional experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale full-stack systems.
Proficiency in at least one modern programming language, such as Java, Python, TypeScript and Node, or Go.
Demonstrated proficiency using a modern JavaScript framework.
Hands-on experience with Web APIs and Git.
Strong foundation in relational databases such as PostgreSQL and ability to write simple queries.
Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with an interest in collaborating in a fast-paced, agile environment.
Exposure to containers and cloud concepts, or eagerness to learn quickly.
Ability to build applications end to end and understand web application and microservice architectures.
Ability to communicate clearly and respectfully, work collaboratively, take ownership, and respond constructively to feedback.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services.
Knowledge of Redis or Valkey.
Familiarity with message brokers such as ActiveMQ, Kafka, or RabbitMQ.
Experience with content delivery networks such as Fastly, Cloudflare, or Akamai.
Exposure to frontend build and package management tools.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain production services and user interfaces using technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes.
Instrument applications with logs, metrics, and traces; use them to diagnose and resolve production issues; build dashboards and alerts; and participate in a minimally interruptive on-call rotation.
Contribute across the software development lifecycle, including planning, requirements gathering, design, development, testing, and maintenance.
Provide thorough code reviews, seek feedback, and partner with product owners to ensure a strong user experience and appropriately scoped work.
Add unit and integration tests, fix bugs, reduce technical debt, and stay current with evolving technologies.
Use AI tools such as code assistants, test generators, and documentation summarizers responsibly by validating outputs, citing sources when relevant, and maintaining human review.
Seek feedback, pair program, and develop skills across backend, frontend, data, and cloud technologies.
Clarify ambiguous tasks with the team, implement solutions efficiently, and communicate progress, challenges, and blockers.
Build applications end to end, applying understanding of web application and microservice architectures and transactional versus eventual consistency models.
Communicate respectfully, collaborate professionally, take ownership, and continually improve based on successes and setbacks.