Software Engineer

Job Description

Responsibilities

SportsEngine, Inc., an NBC Sports Group company and leading provider of Sport Relationship Management (SRM) software, is hiring a Software Engineer II to join our Club & League team.

Each day, hundreds of thousands of volunteer coaches, directors, and managers positively impact the lives of millions of athletes through sports. They impact their lives by teaching them lifelong values of working hard, being honorable, and treating each other like family.

At SportsEngine, our mission is to help make the lives of volunteers easier by building world-class technology solutions to help them spend less time running their organization and more time putting smiles on the faces of these athletes.

We're looking for people who not only believe in our mission, but take pride in their craft. We provide only the best equipment, offer competitive pay, great benefits, and the opportunity to know each day that you truly made a difference in the lives of sports volunteers around the world.
Our passion and commitment to making a difference extends beyond SportsEngine and is shared with our parent company, NBCUniversal.

At NBCUniversal, we believe in the talent of our people. It's our passion and commitment to excellence that drives NBCU's vast portfolio of brands to succeed. From broadcast and cable networks, news and sports platforms, to film, world-renowned theme parks and a diverse suite of digital properties, we take pride in all that we do and all that we represent. It's what makes us uniquely NBCU. Here you can create the extraordinary.
Our ideal Software Engineer II candidate has at least 3 years of technical experience in a collaborative team environment delivering scalable, secure, and highly available SaaS applications.

Job Duties
- Develop highly interactive, user friendly, and feature rich applications.
- Work directly with Product Managers, Product Owners, User Experience, Quality Engineers, Principal Engineers, and Operations teammates to define, create, enhance, maintain, and deploy applications.
- Constantly use best practices by coding small, utilizing short lived branches, using feature toggles, building APIs, creating and maintaining unit tests, applying modern frameworks and design patterns, actively reducing technical debt, and continuously delivering by merging/releasing daily to the mainline branch.
- Complete complex tasks with minimal amount of oversight or supervision.
- Occasionally plan, design, and estimate software engineering efforts.
- Discuss design and architecture with other engineering teammates.
- Contribute towards evolving the application architecture.
- Help others to learn and grow in their skills.
Our Technical Stack
- Angular and TypeScript.
- Ruby on Rails web application framework.
- Git, MySQL, NoSQL, Linux, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services, and Serverless.

Qualifications/Requirements
- 3 or more years professional experience.

- Experience working in a continuous integration environment.

- Ability to write high-quality, modular, maintainable, and secure code. 

- Experience with testing best practices, including unit and integration tests.

- Ability to work well within a team environment, and also be self-starting and self-sufficient.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent training or experience.

Desired Characteristics
- Endless intellectual curiosity.

- Thrives in a collaborative team environment.

- Experience with RESTful APIs and HTTP protocols.

- Exhibits a deep respect for the craft, and values building software sustainably by using modern techniques and industry best practices.

- Experience with object oriented design, ability to apply software patterns, and consuming event-driven applications using REST APIs within a microservice architecture.

- Ability to communicate clearly and collaborate effectively with other teammates of different software disciplines and technical skill sets.

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