Staff Engineer - ad:s (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! 

As a Staff Engineer in Ad:s Team, you will be working on a variety of initiatives that help support and enable engineers and delivery across the tribe. As a team we focus on what the business unit needs at any given point in time, with direction from the Director of Engineering and Principal Engineer, looking at large initiatives that align with business and technical goals. We are looking for someone who loves working in a collaborative environment and likes to work on all aspects of the software stack. You will work as part of a small cross-functional team who have influence over architecting solutions, investigating innovative and emergent technologies, building developer enablement tooling, and mentoring peers. 

We use a mix of modern tools and languages and passionately believe in using the best tool for the job, e.g. TypeScript, Node.js, Vue, React, Golang, Kubernetes, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL. 

We utilize both AWS (Amazon Web Services) and GCP (Google Cloud Platform) for our infrastructure, and we are responsible for educating and mentoring engineers in other teams who are developing on top of these platforms. 

THE CHALLENGE  

• Educating and evangelizing company architectural principles and constraints, driving standardization and governance within Ad:s 
• Mentoring and training engineers in best practices in software engineering and DevOps 
• Providing technical guidance, advice and support to teams and helping design, execute, and operate solutions to complex technology problems 
• Communicating concepts and direction with the creation and maintenance of supporting artifacts to a variety of stakeholders, showing logical implementations and highlighting potential risks 
• Prevent the spread of accidental architecture, and encourage freedom within a framework 

ABOUT YOU:

Required: 

• 3+ years of professional full time experience with a C-based language (e.g. Golang, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, etc.) or Python 
• Ability to understand, analyze and clearly communicate complex problems to people with a varying range of skill levels 
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure from a development and operational perspective 
• Excellent analytical skills 
• Passionate about quality, performance and continuous improvement 
• Very good English language skills 

Experience in some of these areas

• Understanding of IT Architecture Infrastructure 
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code 
• Experience developing and operating microservices; health checks, load balancing, observability, metrics, etc. 
• Familiarity with microservices, Kubernetes, serverless systems, and a DevOps culture 
• Optimization and scaling of microservices 

What skills you can develop in our Staff Engineer position?  

• Transformative change  
• Solution architecture  
• Mentoring, training, and sponsorship  
• Professional experience with Go (Golang) 
• Experience utilizing databases, SQL, or NoSQL  
• Amazon Web Services 

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!