Software Engineer

Job Description

Responsibilities

SPORTS NEXT

NBC Sports Next is where sports and technology intersect. We're fueled by our mission to innovate, create larger-than-life events and connect with sports fans through technology. We're a subdivision of NBC Sports and home to leading technology platforms and digital applications for Youth & Recreational Sports; Golf; and Emerging Media.  

At NBC Sports Next, we equip more than 30MM players, coaches, athletes, sports administrators and fans in 40 countries with more than 25 sports solution products, including SportsEngine, the largest youth sports club, league and team management platform; SportsEngine Play, the first ever streaming service for youth and amateur sports, GolfNow, the leading online tee time marketplace and provider of golf course operations technology; and GolfPass the ultimate golf membership that connects golfers to exclusive content, tee time credits, instructional content and more.  

Job Description

NBC Sports NEXT Youth Sports is looking for a passionate Software Engineer II to join our team.

As a Software Engineer II, you will…
• Design scalable, performant, secure, and highly available systems.
• Develop in a Continuous Delivery environment where you will ship code to production daily.
• Write modular and maintainable code with unit tests.
• Implement strategies for standardizing design patterns across the Youth and Recreational Sports platform to accelerate development velocity across the team.
• Own your work, leave it all on the field.
• Help influence and prioritize work toward efficient iterations.
• Be part of a cross-functional team and participate in all facets of the SDLC.
• Produce schematics and diagrams.
• Identify common bottlenecks and blockers, advocate for mitigation.
• Help engineering and product leadership to expand high-level strategies into actionable work.
• Prioritize and reduce technical debt and developer friction to ensure our system is modern, fast, and easy to work with.
• Provide recommendations and advocate for best practices including testing, code quality, operations, frameworks, tooling and performance.
• Work with other engineers through code reviews, pair programming and guilds.
• Use metrics and logging to triage production system issues with your team.

Qualifications
• Minimum of 3 years experience as a software engineer
• Have a foundation in modern coding practices from which you are ready to contribute from and ready to grow upon
• Angular or Ruby on Rails, or both technologies
• Ability to write quality, modular, maintainable, secure and testable code
• Familiarity with testing best practices including unit and integration tests
• Have a team-oriented attitude and intellectual curiosity

Desired Characteristics
• Effective in a highly collaborative cross functional team environment using Git and GitHub Pull Request workflows
• Experience in a continuous delivery environment
• Exhibit a deep respect for building software sustainably using modern techniques and industry best practices
• Ability to build consensus and a collaborative team environment
• Ability to use data to drive decision making
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) is awesome, but not required
• Bonus points if you have familiarity with our expanded Technology Stack: Ruby, Linux, Amazon Web Services, Github, MySQL, Javascript, Node.js, Nx, Serverless, Typescript

Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote, meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a non-NBCUniversal worksite, most commonly an employee's residence. Applicants in the Minneapolis area have the option of working out of our Minneapolis office space. We strive to create a remote and hybrid friendly work environment, giving our employees the flexibility to choose what works best for them.

Further information

Salary range: $90,000-100,000

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gk489q-3-147-86-123-42 in your application.