WE EXIST TO IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF ATHLETES AND TEAMS
Our mission is to improve the performance of athletes and teams, which we do by engineering the premier technology platform for sport. We've been at the forefront of sports technology and science since 2006 -- we don't just work in the sporting industry, we are actively changing its future. Our solutions are designed to help athletes and coaches “play smart” in a world where 1% can literally mean the difference between winning and losing.
We work with over 3,000 teams around the world, empowering coaches, managers and trainers in premier teams in the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLS, EPL, AFL, NRL, NCAA and more. We provide the information they need to optimise athletes’ health, game-day readiness, and performance, as well as in-game tactics. Our solutions include wearable technology, video analytics, and athlete monitoring solutions, and we are passionate about helping sports organizations at all levels to better scout, recruit, teach, and win.
WE WANT PEOPLE WHO ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT BUILDING STATE OF THE ART TECHNOLOGY
We are looking for a talented and inquisitive Manager (Engineering) whose drive for learning and determination for continuous improvement aligns with our ambitious, fast-growing and transforming company. Based in Boston, you will be a key player in planning, designing, building and testing the features of our next generation cloud platform that combines digital video assets, wearable data and athlete information to provide insights and analytics to coaching/support staff, sports scientists and athletes to assist in optimizing athlete performance. We believe that our customers deserve the best platform and we are on a mission to maximise and enhance their performance through delivering a high quality experience. Our software engineers match this ethos by taking responsibility for constantly improving productivity and development of self and be able to excel in a fast-paced environment with your short project timelines from conception to deployment.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Develop products used by professional and collegiate sports teams to ingest/edit video, as well as log/analyze associated metadata, in a Client/Server/Cloud software environment
- Hire and manage a cross-functional agile development team, including Engineering, QA, and SDET roles
- Collaborate closely with other agile teams on cross-team initiatives
- Lead team meetings, including grooming, planning, retrospectives, and standups
- Actively contribute to maintaining a high level of quality in our products, by reviewing code, test plans, and architecture designs
- Improve code quality through code reviews, with an eye towards maintainable, efficient, modular, and reliable code
- Contribute to the implementation and maintenance of reusable and reliable code to solve a variety of customers needs while considering existing technology, architecture and processes
- Drive continuous improvement and refinement of best practices for engineering, testing, and agile processes
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
- 5+ years hands-on development experience in Object-oriented programming languages (C#, c++, Java)
- 3+ years experience managing a cross-functional agile development team
- Experience interviewing, hiring, and onboarding a team
- Experience delivering and supporting customer-facing desktop applications (Windows), mobile applications (iOS, UWP), and/or web applications (ASP.NET), as well as backend Cloud web services
- Understanding of agile software development methodologies
- Ability to closely collaborate, coordinate, and communicate with other agile development teams
- Ability to work closely with customer support team to triage and address issues
- Ability to use agile development management software (Jira) to run agile team meetings, author work items, generate reports, and maintain a prioritized backlog
- Willingness to work hands-on with a team, through code reviews, test plan reviews, debugging issues, designing features, and breaking down work items
- Understanding of test-driven development, unit test frameworks, and continuous integration
- Experience leading UI test automation projects is preferred
- Experience working with relational databases (MS SQL) is a plus
- Experience working with audio and video editing applications is a plus
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
WHY CATAPULT?
- We have amazing people. We can promise you will work with some of the most ambitious and intelligent people in an exciting industry, and you will do some of the best work of your life.
- We encourage our people to have constructive, open and honest communication; to make Catapult extraordinary; innovate and create smart solutions; establish a collaborative, yet challenging, environment to develop our performance and the performance of our customers.
- Our workforce spans more than 20 countries, you'll have the opportunity to work across multiple nationalities and cultures, and build your global awareness and capability even beyond what it is today.
- We value improvement and development. We are challenging ourselves to continuously grow and become a high-performance company. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do, and our people are always looking for ways to do things better. There is unlimited opportunity to grow, do more, and do better.
Whether you’re interested in sports or not, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing your work is supporting some of the most successful teams and individual athletes on the planet! While we have access to many exciting opportunities, we also realise that we are here to do a very important job for our customers. As a result, we aim to work with purpose and intention. We look for people that fit into our team culture, those who actively contribute and individuals who are excited about what they do.
In order to build the future of sports performance, we need the brightest talent in order to do so. If you think you can contribute to the empowering, enjoyable and exciting Catapult environment, then we invite you to apply.