Software Engineer (Full Stack)

A bit about us

Genius Sports is at the forefront of the sports technology landscape, delivering real-time data and innovative digital solutions that connect sports, brands, and fans worldwide. From data capture to distribution, we are an integral partner to sports leagues and federations—including the NFL, English Premier League, FIBA, and NCAA—ensuring that critical data and cutting-edge products reach millions of users.

If you want to be part of a passionate global team shaping the future of sports entertainment, then come and join us. We foster an environment where creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning drive innovation for our partners and end-users.

The Role: Software Engineer - Full-Stack

We’re building tools th at chang e how people work with sports data — turning complex, manual workflows into simple, smart interfaces powered by automat ion. A s a Full-Stack engineer, you’ll design and develop the dashboards, controls, and data visualizations that bring that transformation to life.

Using React and Next.js, you’ll work closely with designers, engineers, and AI systems to deliver polished, responsive user experiences. You’ll have the opportunity to influence UX from the ground up and help build software that’s genuinely useful, helping operations teams do more with less effort and fewer errors.


Key Responsibilities :

• Build and maintain modern web applications using React and Next.js.
• Design and implement backend services and APIs using Rust ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Collaborate with designers and backend engineers to create user-focused tools that leverage AI automation.
• Design intuitive user experiences that make complex workflows feel simple and actionable.
• Integrate APIs and AI-driven services into front-end apps to power real-time decision-making.
• Ensure applications are performant, responsive, and accessible across a variety of devices.
• Deploy and monitor applications in cloud environments, particularly AWS.

Qualifications :

• 3+ years of professionalfull-stackdevelopment experience.
• Expertise in React and Next.js frameworks.
• Proficiency in a high-level backend programming language and environment (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, Node.js/JavaScript, etc.)
• Experience writing robust and scalable API endpoints
• Experience working closely with backend APIs and integrating AI/automation features into UIs.
• Understanding of component-driven development, performance optimization, and modern JavaScript tooling.
• Familiarity with deployment in AWS environments and CI/CD practices.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Experience designing tools or dashboards for internal operations teams
• Knowledge of data visualization or real-time data display patterns.
• Exposure to AI/ML concepts and how they can be surfaced in intuitive ways through UI.
• Familiarity with container orchestration within cloud environments.

What’s in it for you?

As well as a competitive salary and annual leave allowance, our benefits include health insurance, skills training and much more, depending on the location. We also offer a host of softer benefits, including many social events throughout the year such as summer and winter holiday parties, monthly team building events, sports tournaments, charity days and wellbeing activities.

How we work:

Genius will be returning to the office 4 days a week, and this will give you the opportunity to work collaboratively face-to-face with colleagues in our Lausanne office.

Our employees are empowered to stretch the boundaries of what’s achievable, always reaching further and pushing the edges to see what gives. We collaborate, we innovate, and we celebrate. We will continue to grow as an organization and continue to invest in our highly talented and diverse team of Geniuses.

Genius Sports Group is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We recognize and celebrate the benefits that a diverse and inclusive workforce brings to our business, our customers and our staff. We welcome and will consider all applications regardless of age, different abilities or disability, gender reassignment, marriage, pregnancy, maternity, race or nationality, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation (and any other applicable status). Please let us know when you apply if you need any assistance during the recruiting process due to a disability.