Software Engineer

Catapult Sports; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Catapult Sports is seeking a Software Engineer (Full Stack, Cloud) based in Melbourne to design, build, and test features of our next-generation cloud platform. This role combines digital video assets, wearable data, and athlete information to provide insights for scientists, coaching staff, and athletes.

You will work across the stack, from hardware to user-facing apps, enabling real-time analytics and high-performance experiences for top teams worldwide.

Qualifications

• Experience as an outcome focused, full stack engineer.
• Experience creating successful web and cloud-based products.
• Understanding of user needs and a product mindset.

Responsibilities

• Develop high quality software and services that sports teams will use.
• Contribute to technical design discussions and propose scalable solutions.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver features within our system architecture.

Skills

Full stack engineering

AWS cloud

Go programming

Terraform

Microservices

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Tools

AWS IoT

Terraform

Go

Job description

Our mission is to improve the performance of athletes and teams, which we do by engineering the premier technology platform for sport. We've been at the forefront of sports technology and science since 2006 - we don't just work in the sporting industry, we are actively changing its future. Our solutions are designed to help athletes and coaches “play smart” in a world where 1% can literally mean the difference between winning and losing.

We work with over 3,000 teams around the world, empowering coaches, managers, and trainers in premier teams in the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLS, EPL, AFL, NRL, NCAA and more. We provide the information they need to optimise athletes’ health, game-day readiness, and performance, as well as in-game tactics. Our solutions include wearable technology, video analytics, and athlete monitoring solutions, and we are passionate about helping sports organisations at all levels to better scout, recruit, teach, and win.

WE WANT PEOPLE WHO ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT BUILDING STATE OF THE ART TECHNOLOGY

We are looking for a talented and inquisitive Software Engineer (Full Stack, Cloud) whose drive for learning and determination for continuous improvement aligns with our ambitious, fast-growing and transforming company. Based in Melbourne, you will be a key player in designing, building and testing the features of our next-generation cloud platform that combines digital video assets, wearable data and athlete information to provide insights and analytics to sports scientists, coaching, support staff, and athletes to assist in optimising athlete performance. We believe that our customers deserve the best platform and we are on a mission to maximise and enhance their performance by delivering a high-quality experience. Our engineers match this ethos by taking responsibility for constantly improving productivity and development of self and being able to excel in a fast-paced environment.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our dynamic group and help us shape the future of our cutting-edge projects. Here's a glimpse of what you'll be doing:

• Develop high quality software: Build applications and services that your favourite sports team will most likely be using.
• Technical Design: Contributing to technical design discussions and proposing solutions for well-scoped problems, collaborating with technical leaders and colleagues globally to build features within our established system architecture and design patterns.
• Collaboration and Communication: Our software is “whole stack”, i.e. we do it all from hardware to user facing apps. Cross team, stack and function collaboration is a must.
• Problem Solving and Troubleshooting: We work in a complex environment requiring our team members to think outside the box and be adaptable. Imagine delivering low latency actionable performance metrics from our hardware to decision makers on the side of the field. We want people who bring openness to other perspectives, speak up when it matters, and own their outcomes.
• Code Reviews and Quality: Participating in code reviews to ensure code quality, adherence to coding standards, and best practices. Conducting unit testing and integration testing to verify functionality and reliability.
• Knowledge Sharing: Contributing to the growth of your team by sharing best practices and lessons learned.
• Continuous Learning and Skill Development: Keeping up-to-date with emerging technologies, programming languages, and industry trends. Investing time in self-learning and skill development to improve technical proficiency and expertise.
• Adherence to Best Practices and Standards: Following coding standards, software development methodologies, industry best practices and documentation.

Right now, your expertise could be applied to a variety of exciting areas:

• IoT Capabilities for Enhanced Experiences: Join the mission to enhance athlete support and customer experiences through IoT capabilities that provide real-time information about the health and configuration of our devices.
• Integrate with Firmware and Hardware: This is one of those rare roles where you get to work closely with the people designing and building hardware and firmware. This is about as close to the edge as you can get.
• DevOps: Building and improving our deployment and delivery workflows using GitHub and AWS platforms and technologies.
• AI: Being excited about the potential of AI to optimise how we work, raise the bar on velocity and quality, and unlock novel techniques and capabilities across our products.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• A customer and product mindset - Understanding of user needs and a focus on delivering impactful solutions.
• Experience as an outcome focused, full stack engineer.
• Track record of owning features end to end, with support from your team.
• Experience creating successful web and cloud-based products. We're hiring for your potential and your values alignment rather than years of experience. If the role sounds like you, please apply whether you have 3 or 5+ years.
• Experience with the specific technologies in our stack is advantageous but not mandatory. (AWS services including IoT, storage and compute; infrastructure as code with Terraform; and Go for most services)
• A working knowledge of microservice architectures on AWS, with an interest in learning domain-driven design principles.
• An understanding of relational database architecture, querying and performance.
• A willingness to share knowledge and learn from your colleagues.
• A positive and curious mindset who has a passion for problem-solving, and a can-do attitude.
• A collaborative team player with strong verbal and written communication skills.
• An appetite for using / learning to use agentic AI pragmatically and effectively

WHY CATAPULT?

• We have amazing people. We can promise you will work with some of the most ambitious and intelligent people in an exciting industry, and you will do some of the best work of your life.
• We encourage our people to have constructive, open and honest communication in order to make Catapult extraordinary; innovate and create smart solutions; establish a collaborative, yet productive, environment to develop our performance and the performance of our customers.
• Our workforce spans more than 20 countries, you'll have the opportunity to work across multiple nationalities and cultures, and build your global awareness and capability
• We value improvement and development. We are challenging ourselves to continuously grow and become a high-performance company. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do, and our people are always looking for ways to do things better. There is unlimited opportunity to grow, do more, and do better.

Whether you’re interested in sports or not, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing your work is supporting some of the most successful teams and athletes on the planet!

Research shows that while men apply for jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other marginalised groups tend to only apply when they check every box. So if you think you have what it takes, but don't meet every single point in our job ad, please still get in touch! We would love to have a chat and see if you could be a great addition to our team. We are building the future of sports performance, our priority is to find the brightest talent that can add to our team culture, those who actively contribute and who are excited about what they do.

All offers of employment are subject to Catapult's positive prehire check. To find out more, please contact the Talent Partner for this role.

Non-US Demographic Questions

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Our vision at Catapult is to empower every athlete and team on earth with technology to perform at their best. To achieve this, we acknowledge, respect and celebrate diversity and seek to build an inclusive culture that delivers great outcomes for our people and our customers.

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