Staff Software Engineer, Ad-Tech
Genius Sports3 months ago
Base Salary
$240k - $255k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop systems and applications for automated, real-time advertising and fan engagement products.
- Own and implement features end-to-end across the stack, including development, deployment, and customer support throughout the system lifecycle.
- Lead technical discussions, drive architectural decisions, and improve scalability, automation, and operational efficiency.
- Guide product teams in translating ideas into practical technical solutions.
- Design and maintain the foundational platform supporting engineering teams.
- Design and improve testing and release strategies for backend services, web applications, data pipelines, messaging and streaming services, real-time model inference systems, and on-site hardware components.
- Monitor, analyze, and improve system performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Provide mentorship and technical leadership within local and broader engineering communities.
- Build mechanisms for human- or agent-in-the-loop workflows that validate, correct, and enhance system outputs.
Requirements
- Experience operating distributed systems.
- Experience building real-time systems and interactive web frontends.
- Experience designing APIs and integrating services.
- Experience managing relational databases, including schema design, indexing, query optimization, performance tuning, migrations, and availability considerations.
- Experience using messaging systems, including partitioning strategies, broker scaling, and consumer design.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Participation in Genius Sports Group's benefits plan.
- Office-first culture with hybrid working models that vary by role and location.
- Occasional travel may be required.
- Employee wellbeing support and opportunities for skills, experience, and career growth.
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About Genius Sports
Genius Sports builds data, video and software products for sports leagues, sportsbooks, and media companies. It captures and distributes official live sports data, provides integrity and betting technology, streaming, and ad/personalization tools sold via licensing and SaaS contracts. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in London, it trades on the NYSE (GENI) and holds major rights partnerships including the NFL and NBA.