Senior Software Engineer - Creative Management (m/f/d)

We’re the world’s leading sports technology company, at the intersection between sports, media, and betting. More than 1,700 sports federations, media outlets, betting operators, and consumer platforms across 120 countries rely on our know-how and technology to boost their business.

ABOUT US:

Join our division, “Sportradar ad:s”, where we provide data-driven marketing and sponsorship services to the iGaming industry. Our purpose-built tools and services cater to the individual marketing needs of sportsbooks and media publishers worldwide. Imagine working in an environment surrounded by sports data, live play-by-play statistics, virtual sports, microservices, and betting – all while maintaining an agile mindset and a commitment to delivering exceptional value for our customers. We’re passionate about our work and deeply care about our people. If you’re ready for the challenge, join us in growing, innovating, and developing!  

The Creative Management team represents the pillar for building and publishing ads across multiple domains by delivering exciting customer features, creating new systems and implementing platform initiatives. We use a cloud-native approach, build full-stack solutions and foster innovation. We use infrastructure-as-code (IaC), we create scalable services and we follow best practices to enhance systems quality & reliability. 

THE CHALLENGE:

As a Senior Software Engineer – Creative Management (m/f/d) at Sportradar, you will be tackling all aspects of the software stack, from API design to front-end UI. Become part of a cross-functional team and take on the responsibility of delivering functional excellence and value to the business.  
From a technical standpoint, our product consists of multiple microservices that are entirely hosted in a cloud environment and configured with infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Among many AWS services, we use Lambda Functions to run our code, RDS/DocumentDB to store our data and SNS/SQS for messaging.   

As an engineering team, we continuously strive to find the most suitable solution for any given challenge. We aim for an appropriate level of abstraction and refactor sensibly, which allows us to maintain an extendable code base. Testing practices help us shape our change and ensure the system behaves as expected. If you're a software engineer who is passionate about working with cutting-edge technologies and building scalable, resilient systems, developing our product offers a great opportunity to do just that. We firmly believe that people matter and are committed to fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment, where our engineers can grow and learn from each other.  
If you think you would be a good fit for our team, we would love to hear from you.  

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute and grow as part of a self-organized, agile software development team 
• Build our advertising technologies - from understanding the requirements to creating the fully functional UI 
• Design and craft highly scalable, fault-tolerant systems, while keeping your focus on quality, observability and security 
• Support and develop team members by providing feedback and guidance 
• Team up to extend and maintain together a safe and fun working environment 

ABOUT YOU:

• Strong problem-solving skills, ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, and a passion for clean code and testing. 
• 4+ years of previous professional experience in agile/lean development. 
• 4+ years of previous commercial experience in web development. 
• Strong consumer focus, ownership, and communication. 
• Experience & knowledge building scalable services in one of the languages: Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, especially using Node.js and one Frontend Framework (e.g. Vue.js). 
• Experience with cloud services and pipelines (we use AWS) 
• Experience utilizing databases, SQL or NoSQL. 
• Keen interest in new technologies and learning. 

You might be a good fit if you:

• Enjoy helping other engineers on your team to improve their skills (development and soft skills) 
• Are excited to learn new technologies and systems 
• Take ownership, proactively lead changes and improvements to best practices and code-base 
• Keep the user experience in mind and challenge design decisions 
• Are a full stack developer with a focus on backend development 

OUR OFFER:

• A collaborative environment with colleagues from all over the world (Engineering offices in Europe, Asia and US).  
• Ability to shape your own workday and career via a clearly defined professional and personal development plan. 
• Opportunity to work with senior leadership, develop yourself and build your career within an inspiring and fast-growing company and digital sports environment. 
• A vibrant and inclusive community, including Women in Tech and Pride groups which welcome all participants. 
• A company culture that promotes social aspects, sports, physical exercise and fun.  
• Innovative and cross-team challenges like ShipIt, office sports tournaments in Darts and Table Tennis and unique beer brewing competitions.  
• Competitive salary and benefits (e.g. retirement pension and insurance plan)  
• Sportradar takes over the full costs of € 365.- for the Öffi-Ticket (Jahreskarte) for you.
• Hybrid work model. 

While we value the opportunities to work from home, we truly believe that being together, and sharing ideas, opportunities, trials and tribulations with teammates make us stronger and more innovative – individually and as a company. We strengthen the fibers of our Company each and every day, just by being together. For this reason, we operate a hybrid model where we are in the office 3 days a week.  

The minimum monthly salary for this position is according to the Collective Bargaining Agreement, overpayment will be considered depending on qualifications and working experience.  

We relocated to our office near the Nordbahnviertel (Praterstenr) in the 2nd district of Vienna in Q1/2024. Due to the top inner-city location, we are excellently connected to the public transport network and the cycle path network and are therefore very easy to reach. In addition, we offer our employees a state-of-the-art infrastructure near the center of the most livable city in the world.  

OUR RECRUITMENT PROCESS: 

• Initial Screening: A quick chat with our Talent Acquisition Partner to understand your background and expectations. 
• Technical: Theoretical Interview: 60 minutes to discuss your technical skills on the theoretical level with the technical team.
• Technical: Coding Interview: 60 minutes of live coding where we do not access the end result but rather the candidate's approach (clean code and thinking process).
• System Design Interview: 60 minutes to solve a high-level problem with certain requirements.
• Final Steps: Receive final feedback while onsite visit might be requested and, if successful, an offer! 

We keep it simple and aim to wrap up the process within 3 weeks.

Buckle up, hold on tight and get ready for an incredible adrenaline-rush throughout this exciting ride with us: #maketheteam and shape your future as well as ours! 

At Sportradar, we celebrate our diverse group of hardworking employees. Sportradar is committed to ensuring equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment opportunities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. We encourage you to apply even if you only meet most of the requirements (but not 100% of the listed criteria) – we believe skills evolve over time. If you’re willing to learn and grow with us, we invite you to join our team!