We’re the world’s leading sports technology company, at the intersection between sports, media, and betting. More than 1,700 sports federations, media outlets, betting operators, and consumer platforms across 120 countries rely on our know-how and technology to boost their business.

Job Description: Senior API Engineer

About the job:  

Join a brand-new international team that has the mandate to develop an Enterprise API platform.

As a Senior API Engineer, you will be responsible for developing the API platform of the future. Working closely with Product and Engineering teams, you will help drive the transition to a scalable, decoupled, API-driven architecture. Along the way, you will evangelize modern API best practices and ensure that the software developed is of the highest quality.

Responsibilities:

• Build a new API platform from the bottom up. This will involve both new components and integration to existing components.
• Partner directly with Engineering teams, assisting them to decouple from shared databases and rebuild their systems based on modern API principles.
  • Play a key role in raising awareness and supporting adoption of industry best practice and emerging trends, particularly relating to API development and application integration.
  • Lead a small team of high performing engineers

About You:

• Positive and inclusive communicator and collaborator.
• Experience in building and leading motivated, high-performing teams working in an agile environment.
• A hands-on driver rather than theoretical talker with a clear focus on delivery and what pushes the organization forward.
• Some knowledge of sports is desirable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Strong hands-on experience of RESTful web services and developing Web APIs and supporting technologies and practices.
• Hands-on experience working with messaging solutions e.g. Kafka and developing asynchronous integration between services.
• Deep knowledge of software engineering modern agile methodologies and SDLC approaches including domain-driven design, trunk-based development, test-driven development, acceptance test-driven development, and consumer-driven contract testing.
• Strong programming experience with one or more of Java, Go, Python, or TypeScript
• Proficient working with Relational Databases and querying with SQL
• Working experience with one or more of AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud (AWS Preferred)

Preferred Qualifications:

Relevant development experience with a range of items from -

• Securing APIs with OAuth and JWT
• Consumer Driven Contract Testing
• Machine readable documentation such as OpenAPI and AsyncAPI.
• API linting tools
• API Gateways
• Streaming architectures with Kafka and Flink
• Microservices Architectures
• Implementing API observability
• NoSQL databases and distributed caches
• Data Catalogs

Sportradar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to encourage diversity within our teams. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to among other things, your background, status, or personal preferences