Software Engineer - Data (All Genders)

Prematch; Köln; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days holiday

Remote work

Office Cologne

Office Berlin

Office London

Job summary

Prematch in Germany is building the data backbone for amateur football. We’re seeking a data-focused software engineer who writes production Python services and data pipelines, owns end-to-end data quality, and collaborates across data and engineering teams.

Based in or able to work in Cologne, Berlin, London or remote within the EU/UK, you’ll join the Core Systems group to build reliable match data, stats and market values, with flexible remote options and strong emphasis on shipping small,

Qualifications

• Built and run production data pipelines.
• Shipped Python services with tests and reviews.
• Strong SQL and data modeling skills.
• Experience with data quality checks and monitoring.
• Familiarity with data wrangling from multiple sources.

Responsibilities

• Ensure football data (results, lineups, stats) matches reality.
• Develop and run data processing services and pipelines.
• Implement monitoring and alerts; fix root causes.
• Learn grassroots football data patterns and encode rules.
• Collaborate with data and engineering teams on model evolution.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Production code

Data quality

Communication

Tools

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

AWS

Kubernetes

GitLab CI

Grafana

Metabase

Claude Code

Job description

Hey!

Imagine amateur football finally had the platform it deserves. Every weekend, millions of people write their own personal football stories – on pitches, in clubs and on the sidelines. We believe this passion deserves a digital home too.

Hey! Imagine amateur football finally had the platform it deserves. Every weekend, millions of people write their own personal football stories – on pitches, in clubs and on the sidelines. We believe this passion deserves a digital home too. That's exactly what we're building every single day.

tl;dr

We’re looking for someone who keeps our football data right: results, stats and market values players can trust, especially right after the final whistle.

Main information

• Start: Immediately
• Location: Office Cologne, Berlin, London or remote
• Type: Full-time
• Team: Core Systems

Is this a match?

• Flexible: Hybrid from Cologne, Berlin or London, or remote within the EU or UK - we'll find the mix that works for you.
• 5+ years in: You've been a software engineer with a data focus for 5+ years, still write production code yourself and have owned a pipeline or dataset in production end to end.
• Self-starter: Drop you into a codebase with years of history and you'll find your way - reading the code, the data and the git log yourself, and asking "why does it look like this?" before you change it.
• Agent-native: We build with Claude Code every day. Whichever coding agent you've used so far, you plan with it, review every line it writes, and own what ships.
• Small steps, shipped often: Tests first, small merge requests, a teammate reviews - then it's live. That's our rhythm.
• Football-curious: You don't need to know everything about grassroots football yet - but you want to understand how it works, inside out.
• English first: It's our working language. We're an international team, though, so you'll also hear German, Spanish, Dutch and more around the (virtual) office.

What You'll Do - Your Playing Field

• You keep our football data right. Results, lineups, goals, appearances, stats and market values: you make sure what reaches the app matches what happened on the pitch - and what our users tell us happened there.
• You build and run data processing services. Python services and pipelines that turn match data from many sources into the teams, players and stats in our app - tested, monitored and ready for the weekend peak.
• You make data quality measurable. Validation, monitoring and alerts - and when something's off, you fix the root cause, not just the symptom.
• You become one of our football data experts. Age groups, season changes, renamed and merged teams, duplicate players, players who remember the match differently - you learn how grassroots football data really behaves and turn that knowledge into rules our systems enforce.
• You think about the player at the end of the pipeline. A missing goal or a wrong appearance is someone's weekend. You care how data shows up for players and clubs, not only whether the job ran.

In addition to your core responsibilities, you will also:

• Shape how our data models evolve, together with the engineers who own data acquisition and processing
• Support our data and business colleagues on the technical side of data requests - the queries, data pulls and checks behind analyses for internal teams and partners
• Build small internal tools so our support and product colleagues can check and fix data themselves

What You Bring To The Team

• Data pipelines: You've built and run production data pipelines that others relied on.
• Python: You've shipped Python services with tests and code review.
• SQL & data modelling: You're strong in SQL and model data cleanly on PostgreSQL or similar.
• Data quality: You've owned the quality of a dataset - with checks, monitoring and gaps made explicit.
• Messy data: You've made data you don't control reliable - inconsistent names, duplicates, late corrections and all.
• Communication: You explain a data problem clearly to people who don't write SQL.
• Tools: Python, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, AWS, Kubernetes, GitLab CI, Grafana, Metabase, Claude Code

Good to know

• This is a software engineering role with a data focus: you write Python services and pipelines, not only SQL models and DAGs. Most of your time goes into getting football data right and keeping it that way.
• You join Core Systems, where backend and data work as one team. You'll take over an existing domain with a lot of history, so you'll be working on your own fairly quickly - with the team there to explain the why.

Bonus

• You've built ingestion pipelines from external sources like club homepages - and kept them running when those sources changed
• You have a football background: you've played, coached or helped run a club
• You've built dashboards or reports for non-technical users
• You've worked with a mobile or frontend codebase (Flutter is a plus), enough to follow how data reaches the screen when you're tracing a bug

The Prematch Setup

• Employee participation (VSOP) - You benefit directly from the company's success.
• Modern tech setup - We provide the tools and devices you need to do your best work.
• AI-powered work - We use AI tools to work smarter and more efficiently, and provide you with the tools you need to make the most of AI in your day-to-day work.
• 27 days holiday per year - For proper rest and recharging. And if you're a parent, we have a special arrangement so you can balance family and time off even better.
• Remote work - Depending on how far you live from the office and your role, you'll work 1-3 days a week in the office and the rest flexibly remote - however works best for you. For Tech & Product, 100% remote is sometimes possible.
• Offices in Cologne, Berlin, London + virtual - Whether Berlin, Cologne or London - you get to choose. And our virtual office keeps the whole team closely connected across locations. Fancy a change of scenery? Just work from one of our other offices for a bit.
• Work from anywhere - A week of sun abroad or a few days at the family's? No problem - you can work flexibly from outside your home base.
• Team events - Whether after-work in Cologne, Berlin or London: we bring our teams together regularly - to connect, hang out and grow even closer as a team.
• Offsites with the whole team - Four days away from the everyday with the whole team: travelling together, spinning ideas, working side by side and experiencing real team spirit.

Still here? Sounds like a pretty good match. If you've made it this far, we hope we've managed to show you one thing: how we work, what we believe in and why this role at Prematch is something special. Maybe this is exactly the moment you've been waiting for: a team that thinks big, a vision that actually moves things and the chance to help reshape amateur football digitally – together with us.

Now it's your turn.