Software Engineer, Ad-Tech
Genius SportsBase Salary
$170k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and evolve robust data platforms, backend systems, and services.
- Influence architectural decisions, establish engineering standards, and grow into a technical authority across teams.
- Collaborate with data engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to define system boundaries, APIs, processes, and technical direction.
- Improve performance, scalability, reliability, and operability across critical systems.
- Design and implement efficient, resilient data storage and data access patterns.
- Write maintainable, high-quality code and promote quality, testing, and documentation practices.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues, lead root-cause analysis, and implement preventative improvements.
- Evaluate new technologies, tools, and approaches that provide clear value.
- Mentor and coach engineers across teams and help raise the engineering bar.
Requirements
- Strong proficiency with multiple programming languages, including Rust, Kotlin, and TypeScript.
- Experience with architectural patterns and building scalable systems.
- Ability to solve complex problems and make sound technical decisions in ambiguous situations.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to mentor engineers.
- Preferred experience with agentic frameworks and AI-driven software development workflows.
- Preferred experience with containers and cloud-native environments.
- Preferred experience working with large data and distributed systems.
- Preferred experience with TDD and Spec Driven Development.
- Preferred experience with ad-tech solutions applied to SSPs and DSPs.
Benefits
- Benefits plan eligibility
- Office-first hybrid working model varying by role and location
- Occasional travel may be required
- Employee wellbeing support and opportunities for skills, experience, and career growth
Tech Stack
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About Genius Sports
NYSE: GENI Genius is the operating system for modern sport. Building technology and experiences to make sports even better. Our solutions across the global sports ecosystem are underpinned by our next generation big data and artificial intelligence platform, GeniusIQ. By ingesting and computing multiple real-time data feeds, GeniusIQ powers a wide range of functions and applications across sports performance and officiation, fan engagement, advertising, and sports betting. Founded in 2001, Genius Sports is now one of the world’s largest sports technology companies, working with the likes of the NFL, NBA, EPL, FIBA, ESPN, Sky Sports, Flutter, DraftKings and 100s more. We're headquartered in London and New York and have offices Los Angeles, Medellin, Tallinn, Sofia, Singapore, Lausanne, Manchester and Melbourne. Visit our Showcase Pages to discover more about our products.