Staff Engineer

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.

Sportradar is a NASDAQ-listed and one of the fastest-growing sport-tech companies on the planet. We strive to reimagine the experience sport fans around the globe.Our division, Sportradar Ad:s, provides data-driven marketing and sponsorship services for our clients across the globe, with focus on sports and iGaming industries. We deliver significant efficiency improvements for marketing investments across various channels, including programmatic advertisement, social networks and search engines.We are passionate about what we do, and we care passionately about our people. We value diversity and strive to create an environment which enables everyone to realise and grow their potential.

ABOUT US:

The Marketing Cloud Platform team's mission is to empower stream aligned teams to build our marketing technology products better, faster and safer. We enable product teams to build customer-facing features by solving common infrastructure and operational challenges. We do this by providing self-service tools, reusable services and guidelines.

Our services and tools are mostly written in Typescript and deployed to AWS (Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, RDS). For deployments we are using Terraform and Gitlab CI/CD. For frontends we are providing a component-library which is based on

We are a small team that collaborates closely with several product engineering teams. We believe in close collaboration, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence through practices like pair programming, TDD, and small iterative changes.

THE CHALLENGE:

As a Staff Engineer in the Marketing Cloud Platform team, you will help abstract and solve common engineering challenges across the full stack. This includes reusable IaC modules, CI/CD job templates, Identity and Access Management (IAM), frontend components, and tools improving code quality. In this position you would collaborate with developers of different teams to give guidance and ensure consistency across our teams to help them deliver customer value faster.

ABOUT YOU:

You do not have to meet all the points below. The more experience and interest you have in these topics, the more likely you'll enjoy working with us

• Professional experience working in agile teams using an object-oriented programming language

• Professional experience working with backend and database technologies

• Professional experience working with at least one frontend framework, like , React or similar

• Experience with CI/CD tools, like GitLab, Jenkins or similar

• Experience with infrastructure as code tools, like Terraform, Cloudformation or similar

• Professional experience with at least one cloud provider, like AWS, GCP or similar

• Passion for clean coding and automated testing

• Keen interest in new technologies and learning and willingness to mentor and share knowledge with others

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate within a small, self-organized agile team to design, build, and evolve platform services.

• Development and ownership of services through the whole software lifecycle from planning to maintenance.

• Supporting and giving guidance for product teams with integrating their products into our ads platform

• Drive technical direction and ensure alignment of engineering practices across teams

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.

• 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

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 and if successful, an offer

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

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