Software Engineer

The role

You will join a cross-platform engineering group to ship the Mobile MLB App and MLB.TV Connected TV experience. You will work in small squads to deliver reliable user experiences focused on streaming and subscriptions.

What you will do

• Design, build, test, and ship features on multiple surfaces with emphasis on media playback and subscription flows
• Partner with engineers on other platforms to deliver consistent behavior and shared contracts
• Contribute to code quality, observability, and release readiness
• Participate in squad planning, estimation, and retrospectives
• Integrate with design library and token-based UI patterns
• Review code, mentor peers, and improve engineering practices within the team

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong experience building and shipping iOS applications in production (Swift; UIKit and/or SwiftUI)
• Solid understanding of mobile architecture, networking, state management, and error handling
• Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams (product, design, QA) with clear ownership and communication
• Comfort working in fast release cycles with testing, monitoring, and incremental rollout practices
• Pragmatic approach to tradeoffs: clarity, maintainability, and user impact over perfection

Nice to have

• Experience with tvOS / Apple TV (focus engine, remote interactions, TV-safe UX patterns)
• Background in video streaming (players, playback lifecycle, DRM-adjacent workflows, QoE) and/or subscriptions (purchase, restore, entitlements, paywalls)
• Familiarity with analytics instrumentation and experiment-friendly feature delivery
• Experience adopting or contributing to a shared design system (components, tokens, accessibility standards)
• Exposure to Android / Android TV / Fire TV or willingness to learn cross-platform parity practices
• Strong focus on architectural intent, system design, and code verification guardrails when overseeing AI-generated implementations
• Experience strategically applying AI tools for high-impact engineering tasks

Benefits

• Competitive Benefits Package
• Company 401K Contribution
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• Access to Free Tickets to Baseball Games & MLB.TV
• Discounts at MLB Store | MLBShop.com
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Onsite/Online Training & Development Programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Pet Insurance

About the company

Major League Baseball (MLB) is the most historic of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.