Staff Java Software Engineer

Description

The Sports Data & Odds Engineering organization builds and runs a wide range of products that form the core of the company's sports data and betting ecosystem. These systems handle millions of real-time events each day for media companies, sports federations, betting operators and consumer apps in 120 countries.

Teams work with rights holders, media organizations and betting partners to build highly scalable systems for collecting, processing, analyzing and distributing sports data and odds. The coverage spans more than 30 sports, including e-sports.

The Warsaw development teams work on several products and initiatives in these areas. They build distributed systems that run at global scale, process millions of events daily and provide mission-critical services available 24/7.

This is a technical leadership role focused on shaping the direction of the engineering organization. You will influence the platform as a whole, not only your own area, and you will set direction rather than wait for instructions.

The company is a sports technology business at the intersection of sports, media and betting. More than 1,700 sports federations, media outlets, betting operators and consumer platforms in 120 countries use its technology.

Responsibilities

• Set the architecture and engineering strategy for several teams and product areas
• Design scalable, high-performance distributed systems that process millions of real-time events each day
• Own complex cross-functional initiatives with significant business impact, from first design through to production
• Define engineering standards, architecture principles and the long-term technical roadmap for your area
• Coach Senior Engineers and serve as the technical anchor for teams facing unclear, high-stakes problems
• Bring deep AWS, cloud-native, Kubernetes and event-driven architecture knowledge to org-level decisions
• Translate technical strategy into business outcomes for engineering, product and leadership stakeholders
• Lead platform modernization, technical transformation and large-scale migrations where needed

Requirements

• You have a proven record as a technical leader and have solved problems at organization scale
• You know how to bring people along and understand that strong technical decisions are also sound business decisions
• You have 8+ years of professional software development experience, with extensive Java expertise and a solid record with large-scale distributed systems
• You have led architecture and technical strategy across several teams or products and delivered initiatives with real business impact
• You have deep experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes and modern platform engineering, and you know when and how to apply them
• You have mentored Senior Engineers and shaped engineering culture without direct management authority
• You communicate clearly with everyone, from engineers in a technical deep dive to leadership in a strategy discussion
• You can write engineering standards and long-term roadmaps that teams actually follow
• Strong advantage: experience with real-time, high-availability or mission-critical systems at global scale
• Plus: a background in sports technology, betting, fintech or another highly transactional environment; the ability to learn a domain quickly is valued even more

Conditions

Flexible working hours

The Warsaw teams work alongside engineering offices in Europe, Asia and the US

The hiring process has five steps: a brief screening call with a Talent Acquisition Partner, a take-home coding task you complete when convenient, a technical interview covering your task, live coding and a system design discussion, a cultural fit interview with Senior Management on working in a matrix organization, and a final step with feedback and, if successful, an offer

Benefits

• Work with colleagues from across the world in a collaborative environment
• A defined professional and personal development plan that you can use to shape your workday and career
• Direct work with the senior leadership team in a growing company
• An inclusive community, including Women in Tech and Pride groups open to everyone