Diamond Kinetics is seeking a Senior Backend / API Engineer to help build the next generation baseball/softball analytics open API & tools.
Diamond Kinetics is looking for a high performance individual interested in driving our existing sports-motion-data API to the next level.
As a development leader at Diamond Kinetics, you must be passionate about delivering highly reliable, open & accessible APIs that will scale through industry best practices to service the entire sport of baseball and softball at all levels.
Job Function and Purpose
The Senior Backend / API Engineer at Diamond Kinetics will lead development efforts on our existing API and will grow a team of engineers dedicated to providing simple and reliable access to human performance data in the sports of baseball and softball.
With expert level knowledge of Java/Spring, containerization, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation, this role will serve as a subject matter expert to Diamond Kinetics engineers in building and scaling open and accessible APIs.
In this role, you will join our team of experienced application developers, mechanical engineers, and sports marketers to design new system capabilities to enhance the accessibility of Diamond Kinetics’ precision IMU hardware for MLB organizations, NCAA teams, and every tech-interested parent and coach in baseball and softball.
We hope to find someone that identifies with the spirit of the Open API Initiative (https://www.openapis.org/) and understands the technical and people challenges inherent in broad API adoption.
Diamond Kinetics’ team and our product offerings are growing quickly, so the role requires a self-motivated individual with excellent communication, organization, and technical skills to work cross functionally with other organizations (internal and external), who can also communicate to all levels of management.
Key Responsibilities
Enhance our cloud architecture to better support internal (apps/web) and external (MLB/data-partner) clients
Work cross-functionally with R&D and other user-facing teams to create reusable and scalable architectures and toolsets
Promote DevOps best-practices including continuous integration, system health reporting, centralized logging, and system scalability
Maintain a high standard of user privacy while balancing the needs of partner data access needs and contractual obligations
Communicate and collaborate effectively with integration partners in order to better serve their use-cases of our API
Highly proficient with Java & the Spring Framework
Deep understanding of DevOps, containers, public/private multi-cloud integration concepts and best practices
Experienced with relational data modeling, database schemas, SQL query structure, as well as ORM-mappers and their impact on database performance
5+ years of software development experience with a track record of success
Comfortable working in multiple languages across multiple architectures
Demonstrable history of quickly picking up new languages and frameworks
Additional Desired Experience
Played baseball or softball; understanding and passion for the games
Comfortable with physics concepts and equations
Comfortable developing in Python
Some development experience with HTML/CSS/JS
Start-up and/or early-stage company experience
Unique, exciting opportunity to work in a venture backed early stage company
Demanding performance-oriented work environment
Competitive compensation package
Diamond Kinetics is an equal opportunity employer
