Senior Software Developer, Sports Core

About the Role & Team

As part of the theScore team, you will be working with a team of smart, friendly, and dedicated Engineers, Product Managers and Designers determined to deliver some of the best apps the market has to offer. We want you to be challenged and to get the full experience of what it’s like to work at theScore!

Reliable live scores and stats are the lifeblood of theScore: nearly every feature we build depends on them.  The Sports Core team sits at the center of our platform, ingesting live sports data, persisting it and making it available to all our other systems internally. The real-time nature of this work lends itself naturally to Elixir, and we’ve fully invested in taking advantage of the excellent concurrency and resilience it provides.  If you’ve got some experience with Elixir, highly scalable systems, real-time data, (or all three!) we’d love to hear from you!

About the Work

As a key member of our Sports Core team you will:

• Work with our preferred technology stack of Elixir, Phoenix, and LiveView.  We also maintain some Ruby and Python services that will eventually be migrated over.
• Ensure appropriate monitoring and alerting is in place (we’re heavy DataDog users).
• Build internal web tools in Ruby on Rails, Phoenix and LiveView to help other employees visualize and debug our data and systems.
• Participate in the design, architecture, and delivery of new features in a collaborative agile/scrum environment. 
• Participate occasionally in pair programming to implement features and unblock team members. 
• Participate in triage duty rotation to answer questions and help debug day-to-day challenges submitted by colleagues from different departments.
• Mentor other team members to help them level up their technical skills.
• Deploy services and applications to Amazon EKS.
• Participate in our on-call rotation so that we can triage critical issues during off-business hours.
• Other duties as required.

About You

• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, distributed systems, and software design.
• Passionate about clean code architecture and software craftsmanship.
• Experience with modern web framework and API development
• Experience with Git and GitHub or similar.
• A strong grasp and experience with relational databases; including PostgreSQL and MySQL.
• Experience with consuming and integrating with third party APIs.
• Experience with background job processing (Oban, Broadway, Exq, Sidekiq, Celery, Beanstalk, RabbitMQ, Kafka).
• Comfortable working in the terminal.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes.
• Proficiency within an editor of your choice.
• Experience with testing frameworks such as ExUnit, RSpec, Jest, pytest or equivalent.
• Experience working with profiling tools such as Splunk, DataDog or equivalent.
• Knowledge and familiarity with caching strategies and tools.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package
• Fun, relaxed work environment
• Education and conference reimbursements.
• Parental leave top up
• Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others
  
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