Principal Software Engineer - Oslo

Company Description

We’re the world’s leading sports technology company, at the intersection between sports, media, and betting. More than 1,700 sports federations, media outlets, betting operators, and consumer platforms across 120 countries rely on our know-how and technology to boost their business.

Job Description

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 getting rid of technological debt and building services using the 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.

We are looking for people that want to help us to build a world-class engineering facility. This means helping us create the right engineering culture and values for Sportradar in this location. We want you and your help to make Sportradar the best place to work, thus attract the right talent.

THE CHALLENGE: 

• Be part of creating the Sportradar engineering culture.
• Build high performance services/products on top of our real-time sports data collected 24/7 globally for more than 30 different sports.    
• Take an active part in making the most out of our AWS partnership  
• Become a domain expert in the exciting world of real-time hi-tech sports data  
• A real opportunity to influence the design and technology  

YOUR PROFILE: 

You are a developer who leads by example, with a test-first and quality mindset. You like being the catalyst that uplifts the maturity and performance of the teams you work within. Learning is a natural part of your workday. You enjoy collaborating with a diverse group of people, you are passionate about what you do, have a high interest in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise and you look at programming languages as tools and not constraints. You are curious about both technology and people. You acknowledge that the most complex problems are really people based. Besides of all of that you’re not afraid to go out of your comfort zone. 

Required: 

• Engineering leadership skills where people see you as a role model
• Ability to influence and coach other engineers towards our quality culture
• A test-first mindset where your values are aligned with engineering quality practices
• Strong programming skills enabling you to deliver software with high performance, availability, and throughput   
• Experience with object-oriented programming languages such as Java or C++ and clean code/architecture principles
• A personal interest in keeping up with the general trends of software product development  
• A can-do attitude, take pride in own work and an ability to keep up momentum 

Desirable experience:

• Worked in Agile development teams 
• Cloud based services from AWS  
• Distributed systems  
• Message queuing (RabbitMQ, Kafka)  
• Docker, Kubernetes  
• Protobuf & GRPC  

OUR OFFER:  

• 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.  
• Involvement in shaping your own workday and career through high degree of freedom to choose technology and your personal development.  
• A collaborative environment with colleagues from all over the world (Engineering offices in Europe, Asia and US).  
• A company culture that promotes social aspects, sports, physical exercise and fun.   
• Innovative and cross-team challenges like Ship-It, office sports tournaments in Table Tennis and Table Football.    
• Competitive salary and benefits (e.g. retirement pension and insurance plan)  
• Possibility to work from home office when needed.  

Additional Information

Sportradar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to encourage diversity within our teams. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to among other things, your background, status, or personal preferences