(Senior) Software Engineer Paid Social (m/f/d)

Join our division, “Sportradar ad:s”, where we provide data-driven marketing and sponsorship services to the iGaming industry. Our purpose-built tools and services cater to the individual marketing needs of sportsbooks and media publishers worldwide.

Imagine working in an environment surrounded by sports data, live play-by-play statistics, virtual sports, microservices, and betting – all while maintaining an agile mindset and a commitment to delivering exceptional value for our customers. We’re passionate about our work and deeply care about our people.

If you’re ready for the challenge, join us in growing, innovating, and developing!

The Paid Social team develops tools enabling clients to create and manage dynamic advertisements integrated with social platforms such as Meta, X, Snapchat, and TikTok. These tools empower our clients to design highly customizable ad templates and dynamically display engaging content, including sports data, betting odds, team trivia, and more. This facilitates targeted and interactive advertising experiences that drive user engagement.

From a technical standpoint, our product consists of multiple microservices, hosted across AWS and GCP to ensure scalability and reliability. We employ Terraform for infrastructure-as-code (IaC), ensuring consistent and efficient environment management. Our back-end is developed primarily in Golang, but also in TypeScript. The front-end is built with Vue.js, leveraging pnpm for fast and efficient package management. For communication and data fetching, we integrate GraphQL, gRPC, REST APIs and also messaging queues.

We work in a trunk-based development setup, promoting collaboration, rapid integration and early feedback to accelerate delivery and maintain high code quality. Our continuous integration and deployments are managed through GitLab CI.

THE ROLE:

As a (Senior) Software Engineer Paid Social (m/f/d) in the Paid Social team, you will be a core member of the cross-functional product team on the delivery of their roadmap and helping the more junior members of the team develop via mentoring. Working closely with the Product Manager you will have the opportunity to shape the product backlog via ideation and refinement. You will help guide the technical direction of the team, leaning on your experience to shape innovative solutions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Contribute and grow as part of a small, self-organised, agile software development team
• Build our advertising technologies - from understanding and helping to shape the requirements to creating fully functional user-facing software
• Participate in designing and developing highly scalable, fault-tolerant systems while keeping your focus on quality, observability, and security
• Coach and develop team members by providing feedback and technical guidance

YOUR PROFILE:

• 3+ years of professional experience in agile software development
• Professional experience developing in at least one high-level programming language (JS; TS, Python or Go)
• Professional experience with front-end and back-end related technologies in modern software development.
• Passion for clean code and testing
• Deep understanding of OOP fundamentals
• Keen interest in new technologies and learning

OUR OFFER:

• The possibility to help shape the future of Sportradar
• All developers are directly contributing to products used by our clients in the global sports business
• The opportunity to work and develop within an inspiring and fast-growing company
• The opportunity to grow your skills (German and English courses, Sportradar eAcademy, Engineering workshops, Code Retreats, Randori styled Coding Kata)
• Involvement in shaping your own workday and career through a high degree of freedom to choose technology and your personal development path 
• 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, office sports tournaments in Darts, Table Tennis, Tennis and others
• Sportradar takes over the full costs of € 365.- for the Öffi-Ticket (Jahreskarte) for you
• A hybrid working model and the possibility to work from a home office when needed 

While we value the opportunities to work from home, we truly believe that being together, and sharing ideas, opportunities, trials and tribulations with teammates make us stronger and more innovative – individually and as a company. We strengthen the fibers of our Company each and every day, just by being together. For this reason, we operate a hybrid model where we are in the office 3 days a week.

The minimum monthly salary for this position is according to the Collective Bargaining Agreement, overpayment will be considered depending on qualifications and working experience.

We relocated to our office near the Nordbahnviertel in the 2nd district of Vienna in Q1/2024. Due to the top inner-city location, we are excellently connected to the public transport network and the cycle path network and are therefore very easy to reach. In addition, we offer our employees a state-of-the-art infrastructure near the center of the most livable city in the world.

Buckle up, hold on tight and get ready for an incredible adrenaline-rush throughout this exciting ride with us: #maketheteam and shape your future as well as ours!