Senior Software Developer - Kotlin / Kafka

Sportradar, the global leader in understanding and leveraging the power of sports data and digital content, is seeking a Backend Kotlin Developer for the in-game controller team in Trondheim. You will be working on a team that delivers scores, points serve, the ball bounces and other events from live matches in real-time.

The engineering team in Trondheim support the business needs of media houses all over the world. Working as a part of the Production Engineering Tribe, you will be responsible for implementing backend applications together with team members who receive all our live events in a global infrastructure.

We are seeing an increasing demand for our in-game product to support more sports to cover more sporting events like the NBA and ATP. The applications require high uptime and a global presence. You will be involved in delivering thousands of events per match to millions of end-users all over the world. Most of the daily tasks involve working with Kotlin, Kafka, AI coding assistants, Kubernetes, Gitlab CI/CD and other tools.

We are looking for someone who has a passion for development and creating state-of-the-art solutions, has a sound working knowledge of Kotlin, is familiar with Kafka, knows new and current technological trends, designs and development processes, as well as solution testability and maintainability.

THE CHALLENGE:

• Design, build, test, and deploy cloud-native solutions used by our Enterprise Customers, supporting billions of calls per month with hundreds of millions of end users.
• Build high-performance services/products on top of our real-time sports data collected 24/7 globally for more than 30 different sports with Kotlin & Kafka
• Participate in Code Reviews and writing tests – we are a quality-focused company
• Advocate and learn to optimize your team’s applications for maximum speed, scale, security, and maintainability through best practices.
• Be a trusted member of your team, fostering a strong culture of collaboration and best practices in the software development lifecycle.
• Some of the other technologies we use: Quarkus; AWS ; Terraform Proto; Grafana; Gitlab CI/CD Kubernetes

Requirements

• Past proven professional experience with backend technologies like Kotlin, or a similar language like Java
• Experience working with Infrastructure as code - Serverless or Terraform
• Experience with System Design and Architecture, developing and building large-scale systems.
• Familiarity with API development
• Passion for developing quality software - that will run 24/7 to deliver data from live sports every day
• Experience working in a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) model, including GitLab/GitHub and CI pipeline automation tools.
• Proven success working in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)
• Strong understanding and implementation of cloud-native architectures (AWS serverless and/or containers preferred) at scale in production (or a strong desire for to learn this and gain these skills).
• Knowledge of Kubernetes & Kafka

Nice to have:

• A problem-solving attitude, i.e. not just focused on writing code, but on tackling complex problems and determining how best to solve them
• Willingness to practice TDD
• Enjoy continuous learning