Backend Engineer

Kitman Labs; Dublin; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic tech company in sports performance is seeking a Backend Engineer to design and maintain APIs and services. The role involves working with data processing pipelines and collaborating with various teams to enhance sports analytics. Ideal candidates should have experience with APIs and a willingness to learn, regardless of existing technology stack. The position is based in Dublin, Ireland.

Qualifications

• Experience in building APIs or dynamic web applications.
• Ability to learn new technologies and languages.
• High standards for project completion.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and data-stores.
• Improve engineering processes, standards, and tooling.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers to build user-friendly features.
• Assist data scientists with data processing techniques.
• Debug production issues across services.

Skills

API development

Dynamic web applications

Ruby

CI/CD environment

Job description

Overview

Kitman Labs is the performance intelligence company, disrupting and transforming the way the sports industry uses data to unlock the potential 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 and software designers and engineers. Kitman Labs’ advanced operating system, the Intelligence Platform (iP) is now used by over 2000 teams in 50 leagues on 6 continents, including the NFL, Premier League, National Women’s Soccer League and MLS.

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 embodies 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.

We will expect you to

• 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.
• Recognise the value of standardised, fully tested code that is delivered in a CI/CD environment.