Senior Java Software Engineer

OVERVIEW: 

Imagine being part of one of the most supportive communities you will encounter in your professional career. Imagine the company where ‘teamwork’ is not just a buzzword, but one of the core values of each employee. Imagine the place with huge emphasis on building own services using the quality-focused engineering practices and cloud-first principles. The place where you can become great at things you’re currently good at. All that while maintaining work‑life balance. 

The ‘Odds Tribe’ in Sportradar offers popular trading services, used by over 200 organizations worldwide. Our team of experts manage betting probabilities using our leading edge mathematical models. Our clients can control their own sportsbooks in web interfaces, configuring everything from event and odds creation to market monitoring and result confirmation. 

At Sportradar, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture and community. We partner with organizations and serve a customer base that is widely diverse. To best meet the needs of our partners and customers, we believe in ensuring our current and future employees feel empowered to bring forward their unique selves, opinions and viewpoints. 

Join our team and become a part of the global, fast-growing success.  

THE CHALLENGE:   

• Use ATDD/BDD techniques in your daily work.
• Use AWS, Kubernetes, and GitLab CI.
• Build high performance services/products on top of our real-time sports data collected 24/7 globally for more than 30 different sports.
• A real opportunity to influence the design and technology.
• Take an active part in making the most out of our AWS partnership.
• Become a domain expert in the exciting world of real-time hi-tech sports data.   

YOUR PROFILE:   

You are a developer who likes solving challenging problems and  being focused at work. Learning is a natural part of your workday. You enjoy collaborating with a diverse group of people, you are passionate about what you do, have a high interest in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise and you look at programming languages as tools and not constraints. You are curious about both technology and people. You acknowledge that the most complex problems are really people based. Besides of all of that you’re not afraid to go out of your comfort zone.  

Required:   

• Engineering leadership skills where people see you as a role model.
• A test-first mindset where your values are aligned with engineering quality practices.
• Strong programming skills enabling you to deliver software with high performance, availability, and throughput.  
• Experience with object-oriented programming languages such as Java or C++ and clean code/architecture principles.
• A personal interest in keeping up with the general trends of software product development.
• A can-do attitude, take pride in own work and an ability to keep up momentum

Desirable experience: 

• Worked in Agile development teams.
• Cloud based services from AWS.
• Distributed systems.
• Message queuing (RabbitMQ, Kafka).
• Docker, Kubernetes.
• Protobuf & GRPC.

OUR OFFER:   

• A collaborative environment with colleagues from all over the world (Engineering offices in Europe, Asia and US).   
• Involvement in shaping your own workday and career through high degree of freedom to choose technology and your personal development.   
• The opportunity to work and develop within an inspiring and fast-growing company.  
• The possibility to help shaping the future of Sportradar. All developers are directly contributing to products used by our clients in the global sports business.   
• A company culture that promotes kindness, sports, physical exercise and teamplay. 
• Innovative and cross-team challenges like Ship-It, office sports tournaments in Darts, Table Tennis and Table Football.     
• Competitive salary and benefits (e.g. retirement pension and insurance plan).
• Possibility to work from home office when needed.   
• Vibrant Women in Tech community and Sportradar's Pride group inside the company inclusive for everyone to participate in.

Sportradar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to encourage diversity within our teams. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to among other things, your background, status, or personal preferences