Software Engineer, Fan Identity

The role

You will build and operate core platforms that manage digital identities for millions of fans. This includes developing production applications, maintaining services, and collaborating within an agile team.

What you will do

• Build and maintain services and user interfaces using Java, Spring Boot, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Queues, 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 to planning, requirements gathering, design, development, testing, and maintenance
• Provide thorough code reviews
• Partner with product owners to ensure user experience and scope
• Add unit and integration tests
• Fix bugs and reduce technical debt
• Grow skills across backend, frontend, data, and cloud

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale, full stack systems
• 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 Google Cloud Platform
• Knowledge of Redis or Valkey
• Familiarity with message brokers like ActiveMQ, Kafka, or RabbitMQ
• Experience with Fastly, Cloudflare, or Akamai
• Deploying and managing Customer Identity and Access Management platforms

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

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