Senior Software Engineer

Company Description

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.

Job Description

COMPANY

Sportradar is a NASDAQ-listed and one of the fastest-growing sport-tech companies on the planet. We strive to reimagine the experience of sport fans around the globe.

Our division, “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:

Programmatic Ad:s team develops a platform which enables our customers to reach broad audiences using display, video and audio creatives, while configuring targeting strategies to ensure the best performance to cost ratio.

We are a cross-functional team, working closely with our clients to understand what problems they're trying to solve, striving to iterate in small steps to allow us steer quickly if our hypothesis isn't proving correct.

THE CHALLENGE:

We deploy multiple microservices using infrastructure-as-code to AWS, using services such as Lambdas, RDS, DocumentDB, SNS, SQS, S3 and a few more. Both frontend and backend are written in TypeScript, talking to each other via REST APIs. Our choice for frontend framework is Vue.js and we get help from our platform team with building reusable components. We care about long term maintainability and believe TDD/BDD, pair/ensemble programming and iterative approach to refactoring and technical debt are the right tools to achieve that.

As a Senior Fullstack Engineer - Web Development (m/f/d) at Sportradar Ad:s, you will be tackling all aspects of building scalable and performant services, from overall system architecture, data layout and data pipelines to API design and front-end UI. Become part of the team and take on the responsibility of delivering functional excellence and value to the customer.
 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contribute and grow as part of a small, self-organised, agile software development team
• Build our advertising technologies - from understanding and helping to shape the requirements to creating fully functional user facing software
• Participate on designing and developing highly scalable, fault-tolerant systems while keeping your focus on quality, observability and security
• Coach and develop team members by providing feedback and technical guidance

ABOUT YOU:

Tou 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

• 3+ years of professional experience in agile software development, using one or more high-level programming languages
• Professional experience with back-end and databases technologies
• Professional experience with a modern front-end framework like Vue.js, React or similar
• Experience building microservice oriented solution in cloud
• Strong collaborative mindset, with experience working closely with product, design, and other engineers
• Passion for clean code and testing
• Understanding of OOP fundamentals
• Keen Interest in new technologies and learning

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.

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 believe great products are built by great teams working closely together. While we offer flexible working hours, this role is fully office-based, as we strongly value in-person collaboration, knowledge sharing, fast decision-making, and team connection. We see working together onsite as a key driver of innovation, learning, and success. Certain exemptions may apply depending on location — your local point of contact can provide further details.
We relocated to our office near the Nordbahnviertel 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. 

Additional Information

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!