Senior Software Engineer - NBC Sports Next

Company Description

NBC Sports Next is where sports and technology intersect. We’re a subdivision of NBC Sports and home to all NBCUniversal digital applications in sports and technology within our three groups: Youth & Recreational Sports; Golf; and Betting, Gaming & Emerging Media.  

At NBC Sports Next, we make playing sports better through innovative technology and immersive experiences for athletes, coaches, players and fans. 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; GolfNow, the leading online tee time marketplace and provider of golf course operations technology; GolfPass the ultimate golf membership that connects golfers to exclusive content, tee time credits, and coaching, tips; TeamUnify, swim team management services; GoMotion, sports and fitness business software solutions; and NBC Sports Edge, a leading platform for fantasy sports information and betting-focused tools.  

At NBC Sports Next we’re fueled by our mission to innovate, create larger-than-life events and connect with sports fans through technology that provides the ultimate in immersive experiences.  

This role is part of our Youth & Recreational Sports group, comprised of technology platforms such as SportsEngine, GoMotion, TourneyMachine, and TeamUnify. We enable athletes, parents, coaches and team administrators in the youth and recreational space to manage their organizations, collect payments, share schedules, find programs to participate in and connect with other families. Additionally, NCSI enables leagues and organizations to properly screen and train coaches in an effort to keep kids saf

Job Description

NBC Sports Next, a division of NBC Universal, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our FinTech team.The FinTech group specializes in centralizing the financial lifecycle of various NBC Sports properties to give our finance team a clear, concise, and common view of all transactions from beginning to end as well as extend our business workflows and processes to our customers across various platforms. We offer these capabilities to outside services: youth sports organizations, subscription services, and golf facilities around the world. 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 sport participants around the world.

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 building APIs, creating and maintaining unit tests, applying modern frameworks and design patterns, actively reducing technical debt, and continuously delivering by merging/releasing consistently to the mainline branch.
• Complete complex tasks with minimal amount of oversight or supervision.
• Occasionally plan, design, and estimate software engineering efforts.
• Lead design and architecture discussions with other engineering teammates.
• Guide and contribute towards evolving the application architecture
• Help others to learn and grow in their skills.

Our Technical Stack

• Angular
• TypeScript
• Ruby
• Github
• MySQL, NoSQL (DynamoDB)
• Linux, MacOS
•  Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services, and Serverless

Qualifications

All candidates must meet the qualifications below: 

• 6 or more years professional software development experience in TypeScript (node.js or angular).
• 4 or more years professional software development experience in MySQL or DynamoDB.
• 2 or more years experience with serverless architectures (such as the AWS offerings).
• Experience in a collaborative team environment delivering scalable, secure, and highly available SaaS applications.
• 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 be self-starting and self-sufficient.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer