Software Engineer

Description

The Automated Video Production team sits within the Automated Content Unit and works on AI, computer vision, deep learning and related research and development across a distributed group of specialists.

The team automates sports content creation, both the data and the video that feed the company's products and services for its partners.

The work aims to deliver hardware and software that enables automated viewing, real-time statistics and event forecasting for coaches, athletes and fans.

The company is a sports technology business working where sports, media and betting meet, serving more than 1,700 sports federations, media outlets, betting operators and consumer platforms in 120 countries.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test and maintain libraries, components and backend services for the automated production systems, including production data analysis, event distribution and optimizing video and audio encoding and distribution.
• Help analyze business requirements and design new features by splitting complex requirements into smaller, concrete components the team can deliver quickly.
• Research new technologies and methods to solve technical problems.
• Keep up with the latest technology strategy, tools and technologies and proactively improve the software development process.
• Continuously improve existing software solutions.
• Design, build, test, deploy and maintain services running on a global distributed architecture, both on premises and in the cloud, as part of a larger system.
• Improve the reliability, security and efficiency of the stack.
• Write clean, scalable, documented and readable code.
• Take part in code reviews.
• Build reusable code libraries.
• Design, implement and extend APIs.

Requirements

• Strong Python skills; experience with other languages is important.
• Experience managing larger projects from concept through to maturity.
• Experience with web API frameworks (e.g., Flask) and API specifications (OpenAPI, WebRTC).
• Working knowledge of Linux systems.
• Excellent skills with version control and CI/CD pipelines for the software release lifecycle.
• Good knowledge of containerization technologies and processes.
• Experience with databases; PostgreSQL knowledge is a plus.
• Familiarity with cloud service providers, especially AWS.
• Interest in hardware and hands-on experimentation.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Able to work independently and as part of a team.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills.

Conditions

The role is office-first and fully on-site, with team members in the office five days a week.

Certain exemptions may apply depending on location; your local point of contact can give details.