Backend Engineer

Houston Texans; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Kitman Labs is a global human performance company, disrupting and transforming the way the sports industry uses data to increase the performance of the world's top athletes.
Driven by a passion to innovate in the areas of sports performance, analytics and user experience, we have assembled a team of the industry’s top data scientists, sports performance scientists, product specialists and engineers. The company received recognition by Fast Company in 2019 as one of the most innovative companies in the world.
Kitman Labs’ advanced Outcome-driven Analytics and Performance Intelligence Platform are used by over 700 teams in 50 leagues on 6 continents spanning soccer, rugby, American football, baseball and ice hockey.
The Role
Backend engineers are responsible for building the core data-flows of Kitman Labs products. They do this with a focus on security, privacy, robustness and performance.
The backend engineering team builds APIs and data processing pipelines that handle massive amounts of data from sports teams all over the globe. In conjunction with our Data Science team, they build and maintain data models which embody the cutting edge of injury risk prevention technology.
We’re looking for people with a strong background or interest in building successful products. You’ll be happy dealing with systems that involve many moving pieces. New technologies or approaches to solving problems don’t bother you. You are detail-oriented but also pragmatic and considered in where you spend time and effort.
Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and data-stores.
• Constantly improve our engineering processes, standards, and tooling.
• Work with our frontend engineers to build features that users love to use.
• Help our data scientists to research and implement the latest data processing techniques and models.
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Contribute to our technical architecture as we grow.

Experience and Skills We Look For

• Experience building APIs or as part of a team building dynamic web applications.
• Shown an ability to take on new technologies and languages.
• We work mostly in Ruby but this isn’t a prerequisite; we’re more interested in your ability to learn.
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar.
• Take pride in working on projects through to a successful completion.
• Recognize the value of standardized, fully tested code that is delivered in a CI/CD environment.