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
Sportradar
We’re the world’s leading sports technology company, at the intersection between sports, media, and betting.
Sportradar, the leading global sports technology company creating immersive experiences for sports fans and bettors.
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