Senior Backend Software Engineer

Place of work: Zagreb Office

ABOUT SOFASCORE

Sofascore is a leading provider of live scores and advanced sports insights. Some tell stories with words, and we tell ours with numbers. 

We developed a mobile app and website that cover over 20,000 tournaments for 25 sports in 40+ languages. Our goal is to provide sports fans with superior insights about their favourite players, clubs, leagues, and competitions.

The info we provide, whether it's live results, stats, or data, is delivered in real time, so you never miss a beat. It's your seat at the world's biggest stadium. 🏟️

The Sofascore team counts more than 300 experts, primarily in our homecourt in Croatia but also worldwide. 🇭🇷 🌐

ABOUT THE ROLE

Did you know that our platform handles a whopping 1.2+ PB of traffic every month? We also process an impressive 350+ billion requests per month, with 80% of those being API calls. Additionally, our system generates an incredible 25+ billion monthly events, resulting in a mind-boggling 35+ TB of data.

We're looking for a Backend Software Engineer (senior), who would participate in the maintenance and development of the application (and infrastructure) with their own ideas. Join us and be a part of this extraordinary digital journey!

Your tasks and responsibilities

• working with other teammates on smart solutions for complex problems
• handling sub projects that utilize enormous data sets
• implementing new creative features the sports industry has not yet seen
• collaborate with frontend and mobile developers
• performing code reviews
• If you have interests, working on DevOps stuff like scaling infrastructure with bare metal Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, etc. 

What you bring to the team

• at least 3 years of experience in PHP, experience with Symfony is a bonus
• Git knowledge
• results-oriented and high quality work
• willingness to openly share knowledge and opinions with teammates
• quick code reviews without compromising quality

What we use

• Symfony 7.3 - the standard foundation on which the best PHP applications are built
• PHP 8.4 - always running the latest and greatest
• PostgreSQL - the world's most advanced open source relational database
• Docker & Kubernetes - building and deployment automatization makes life easier
• Beanstalk - job queue to process enormous amount of data
• Varnish - cache all the things!
• ElasticSearch, Redis - to help with search and some caches

What we offer

• Competitive salary range
• Equity options
• Excellent work-life balance
  • Enviable number of vacation days
  • Flexible working hours
  • Possibility of remote work

• Family benefits package
• Education - internal and through international conferences and workshops
• Top quality equipment
  • MacBook Pro or Lenovo ThinkPad
  • Budget for Mobile phone
• Paid package of general physical examination once a year
• 10% of your weekly time to work on anything you want
• Numerous other benefits that we would verbally communicate to you

Sounds good? It gets even better.

Send us your CV in English or Croatian

Looking forward to hearing from you. Let’s get the ball rolling! 🔥