Job Description

About the Role & Team

As part of the theScore team, you will be working with a team of smart, friendly, and dedicated Engineers, Product Managers and Designers determined to deliver some of the best apps the market has to offer. We want you to be challenged and to get the full experience of what it’s like to work at theScore!

The Sports API team is responsible for some of our most crucial internal APIs at theScore.  After scores and stats data is ingested from our 3rd party partners, the Sports API team works to shape this data into the most logical formats to power the different app and site experiences.  As we’re primarily an API team, we pay a lot of attention to monitoring and alerting, performance, and scalability while providing great documentation for our Feature, Android, iOS, and Web teams.

About the Work

As a key member of the Sports API team:

• Work with our preferred technology stack of Elixir, Phoenix, and LiveView.  We also maintain some legacy Ruby services slated for migration.
• Develop, scale, optimize, and document amazing GraphQL and RESTful APIs, including the most heavily trafficked service at theScore.
• Develop, scale, and optimize socket-based services maintaining active connections with millions of users.
• Ensure appropriate monitoring and alerting is in place (we’re heavy DataDog users).
• Build internal web tools in Phoenix and LiveView to help other employees visualize and debug our data and systems.
• Facilitate the design, architecture, and delivery of new features in a collaborative agile/scrum environment.
• Facilitate pair programming and mob sessions to implement features and unblock team members.
• Mentor other team members to help them level up their technical skills.
• Deploy services and applications to Amazon EKS.
• Participate in our on-call rotation so that we can triage critical issues during off-business hours.
• Other duties as required.

In your role as a Senior Engineer, you’ll also be impacting technical work outside of the Sports API team:

• Participate in Requests for Comment ( RFCs ) for significant architectural changes.
• Regularly contribute to TSM Developer Touchpoint initiatives, our engineer lead forum

About You

• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, distributed systems, and software design.
• Passionate about clean code architecture and software craftsmanship.
• Experience with modern web framework and API development
• Experience with Git and GitHub or similar.
• A strong grasp and experience with relational databases; including PostgreSQL and MySQL.
• Experience with implementing socket connections.
• Comfortable working in the terminal.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes.
• Proficiency within an editor of your choice.
• Experience with testing frameworks such as ExUnit, RSpec, Jest, pytest or equivalent.
• Experience working with profiling tools.
• Knowledge and familiarity with caching strategies and tools.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package
• Fun, relaxed work environment
• Education and conference reimbursements.
• Parental leave top up
• Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others

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