Software Engineer, Baseball Enterprise

The role

You will build and own production applications and services that power MLB Club and League operations. This includes working on roster management, broadcast operations, high scale APIs, and on field technology.

What you will do

• Build and maintain services and user interfaces using Java, Spring Boot, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes
• Instrument applications with logs, metrics, and traces to diagnose and resolve production issues
• Build dashboards and alerts
• Participate in a minimally interruptive on call rotation
• Contribute across the full software development lifecycle
• Provide thorough code reviews
• Add unit and integration tests, fix bugs, and reduce technical debt
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate work while maintaining human review
• Seek feedback, pair program, and grow skills across the stack

Required qualifications

• 2+ years of professional experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale, full stack system
• Proficiency in at least one modern language such as Java, Python, TypeScript and Node, or Go
• Demonstrated proficiency using a modern JavaScript framework
• Hands on experience in Web APIs and Git
• A strong foundation with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and writing simple queries
• Excellent problem solving and communication skills
• Exposure to containers and cloud concepts, or eagerness to learn quickly

Nice to have

• Hands on experience with either Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services
• knowledge of Redis or Valkey
• Familiarity with message brokers like ActiveMQ, Kafka, or RabbitMQ
• Experience with Fastly, Cloudflare, or Akamai
• Exposure to frontend build and package management tools

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. The company has a culture of growth, teamwork, and professionalism.