Software Engineer II - Global Football & Rugby

<div><p>At Hudl, we build great teams. We hire the best of the best to ensure you’re working with people you can constantly learn from. You’re trusted to get your work done your way while testing the limits of what’s possible and what’s next. We work hard to provide a culture where everyone feels supported, and our employees feel it—their votes helped us become one of <a href="https://www.hudl.com/blog/newsweek-top-100-global-most-loved-workplaces-2023">Newsweek's Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces</a>.  <br/><br/>We think of ourselves as the team behind the team, supporting the lifelong impact sports can have: the lessons in teamwork and dedication; the influence of inspiring coaches; and the opportunities to reach new heights. That’s why we help teams from all over the world see their game differently. Our products make it easier for coaches and athletes at any level to capture video, analyze data, share highlights and more.<br/><br/>Ready to join us?</p> <div></div> <p> </p></div><h2>Your Role</h2> <p>We're hiring a Software Engineer to join our data API team in Chiavari.</p> <p>We are making a bet: that the future of Hudl's football data is a <strong>coherent, API-first platform</strong>. A modern platform that every product and customer can build on. From player and team identity to the events, metrics and context that become stats, highlights and analysis, we turn Hudl's understanding of the game into APIs that others depend on. You'll work at the heart of it. That means designing APIs that are meant to scale, building the data services behind them, and treating the API itself as a product: versioned, documented, reliable, and easy to build on. The work is backend and data-heavy, and deeply technical. The systems you build won't serve one product or one sport but they'll become shared capabilities, the whole company builds on. You'll join a team of experienced, senior engineers, people you'll learn from every day. This is a role built for someone ready to grow quickly, with strong colleagues around them to learn the craft from.</p> <p>For this role, we're currently considering candidates who live within commuting distance of our office in Chiavari.<br/><br/></p> <h2>As a Software Engineer, you'll:</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Build the data API as a product.</strong> You'll design and ship APIs, GraphQL schemas and the services behind them. The contracts other teams and customers depend on. We iterate rapidly and deploy changes many times a day.</li> <li><strong>Collaborate across disciplines.</strong> You'll work closely with a cross-functional team of engineers, quality analysts, product managers and designers to turn Hudl's data into tools the best in sport rely on.</li> <li><strong>Own backend-heavy work end to end.</strong> From data model to endpoint to production, you'll take features from idea to running service and keep them reliable, observable and fast as usage grows.</li> <li><strong>Work AI-first.</strong> You'll use AI tooling as a core part of how you build, and help the team raise its bar for what that looks like in practice.</li> <li><strong>Propose new solutions.</strong> You'll dig into genuinely ambiguous technical problems in the data domain, weigh the options, and bring your ideas to the team through design discussions and thoughtful code reviews.</li> </ul> <h2>Must-Haves</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Strong technical proficiency.</strong> You have three or more years of engineering experience, specifically in backend-heavy or data-heavy environments, and you've taken features from design through to production.</li> <li><strong>API and platform sensibility.</strong> You've built software that <em>other</em> teams or products consume. APIs, service contracts, GraphQL schemas or data pipelines, and you understand what it takes to make an interface others can rely on.</li> <li><strong>A product mindset.</strong> You've shipped customer-facing products, not only internal tooling. You've felt the pressure of real users and release cycles, and you make deliberate trade-offs between quality and speed.</li> <li><strong>AI-positive and forward-thinking.</strong> You actively use AI tools in your day-to-day engineering and are energized about pushing how far they can take a team.</li> <li><strong>Cloud experience.</strong> You've worked with cloud-based systems and services, and TDD and CI/CD are part of how you work.</li> <li><strong>Comfort with uncertainty.</strong> You're at ease with ambiguous work that has many possible implementations, and you know when to explore it yourself and when to draw on the experienced engineers around you to land on an approach that pragmatically balances quality and customer value.</li> <li><strong>A collaborative, team-first mindset.</strong> You know great software is a team effort, and you're always willing to pitch in and give quality feedback in code reviews.</li> </ul> <h2>Nice-to-Haves</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Tech stack knowledge.</strong> Professional backgroun