Tribe Architect

Join our team and become a part of the global, fast-growing success here at Sportradar. A technology-first software development company with huge emphasis on technical excellency and building services using quality focused engineering practices and cloud-first principles. Imagine yourself working in surroundings of sports data, live play-by-play statistics, virtual sports, microservices, and betting – everything done in an agile spirit and always striving to deliver the most value for our customers.

The Odds Group in Sportradar offers popular pre-match and in-play trading services, used by over 800 customers worldwide. Our leading-edge data collection pipelines and statistical odds models constantly produce insights for 1000+ matches in ~50 sports, powering sportsbooks across the world.

Our clients can control their own sportsbooks in web interfaces, configuring everything from event and odds creation to market monitoring and result confirmation. 

THE CHALLENGE:  

Every second of every day the Odds department deliver thousands of real-time messages to our customers from the various data feeds and APIs we build and maintain. There's an ever-increasing need for more content, higher throughput, lowered latency and more customization options in our products. To realize these goals, our teams of 170+ engineers make use of the latest cloud native technologies. To keep all these engineers productive, we need experienced architects that can build and evangelize a cohesive target architecture across all the teams.

Odds department is one of the biggest Tribes in Sportradar and you will join the team of Tribe Architects covering 20+ independent squads.

YOUR PROFILE:  

You either have some of the skills listed below or you can show aptitude and willingness to develop them:

• Approach complex problems by breaking them down into simple logical steps
• Ability to spot sub-optimal organizational processes that keep developers from being productive
• Promote system designs that are easily deployable, testable and observable
• A good communicator that can maintain effective working relationships across different roles
• A pragmatic thinker that can balance technology and business needs
• Ability to work independently, and identify opportunities for the organization to improve with minimal direction
• Long experience in working with event driven distributed systems or micro-service architectures.
• Knowledge and help of adoption of Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Familiarity with some of our technology stack like Java, Typescript, AWS Cloud: EKS, Lambdas, Aurora MySQL, MSK, SNS/SQS, Rabbit MQ, Elasticache, New Relic, REST, gRPC, GitLab, React, Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, Terraform Enterprise, Pact
• JSON Schemas, OpenAPI, AsyncAPI

MISSION:

• Shape service, APIs and teams to deliver independently releasable business value and help drive the next generation of sports data technology services
• Have a holistic view of the architecture and technology used within the department and company to guide and support decision making processes of teams and organization
• Design resilient, performant and horizontally scalable systems to allow us to meet ever increasing demands of our customers
• Explore modern technologies that will help us tackle new challenges.
• Mentor and support domain architects on their way to becoming technical leaders

OUR OFFER:   

• The chance to work with a highly skilled inclusive and multi-national team of architects

• 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 Pride group inside the company inclusive for everyone to participate in 

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!