Senior Back-end Engineer

The role

A senior backend engineer will lead technical subjects end to end. You will architect systems to process 145M+ minutes of video a month and shape the technical roadmap.

What you will do

• Lead subjects end to end from design to production
• Write and defend RFCs for structural decisions
• Co-design features with product managers and technical leadership
• Help engineers level up through code reviews, pairing and mentoring
• Architect systems that process 145M+ minutes of video a month
• Shape the roadmap and structural decisions

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of backend experience
• At least 1 year working in Go in production
• Solid experience with web architectures, event-driven systems and data-heavy applications
• Experience designing systems and defending architectural choices and trade-offs
• Strong ownership to take subjects from ambiguity to shipped

Nice to have

• Startup experience
• Time spent on video or media infrastructure
• Ingest pipelines
• Transcoding
• Live streaming
• High traffic or storage at scale

Benefits

• International team across Europe and the US

About the company

ScorePlay is the AI-powered media infrastructure for sports. It is a 65-person team founded in 2021 that works with over 350 leagues, competitions, teams and broadcasters.