Full Stack Software Engineer, Integrity

NBA NBA; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Health benefits

Job summary

The NBA is seeking a highly skilled full stack software engineer to support the AI-driven Integrity platform. You will own the platform end to end, building backend jobs and services and designing front-end interfaces used by the Integrity Team and Legal to triage, investigate, and document findings.

Strong Python/TypeScript skills, cloud experience, and collaboration with data scientists and attorneys are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field; 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building production backend or full-stack applications.
• Proficiency in Python and modern JavaScript/TypeScript on server and client sides.

Responsibilities

• Own backend architecture and scheduled jobs powering the platform.
• Design and build the front-end UI for triage, investigations and documentation.
• Collaborate with data scientists to integrate anomaly detection and ML models into production apps.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Cloud infrastructure

SQL

Frontend framework

Git & CI/CD

Docker

APIs integration

Team collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Snowflake

Airflow

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Docker

Job description

Work Option

WORK OPTION: The NBA currently provides eligible employees the option of working remotely one day per week.

Position Summary

The NBA’s Basketball Strategy & Growth department is seeking a highly skilled full stack software engineer to support, manage, and improve the AI-driven software the Integrity Team uses to identify conduct that may violate the league’s gaming policy. The software ingests data from a wide range of sources - betting markets, basketball data, open-source intelligence (OSINT), and internal league systems - and surfaces anomalies for review by the Integrity Team. The engineer will own the platform end to end: building and maintaining backend jobs and services that power application functionality and designing the frontend interfaces the team uses to triage, investigate, and document the content the system surfaces. This role joins a team of data scientists, engineers, and basketball experts and collaborates closely with the Legal department on any investigation relating to a potential violation of the gaming policy. The work is highly confidential and often time-sensitive, and the engineer will be expected to translate the needs of data scientists, investigators and attorneys into reliable, auditable software.

Major Responsibilities

• Own the backend architecture that powers the Integrity platform - build, schedule, monitor, and maintain the services and automated jobs that support application functionality, model execution, and investigative workflows
• Design and build the front-end UI the Integrity Team uses to review flagged activity, including alert queues, case views, market and player drill-downs, and supporting visualizations.
• Partner with data scientists to integrate anomaly detection and machine learning models and outputs into production applications, including deployment, inference, versioning, and monitoring.
• Integrate third-party and internal data services into the platform, defining service interfaces and application-level schemas and building resilience for late, missing, or malformed data.
• Build application logic and services on top of curated warehouse datasets, partnering with the Analytics Engineer when new transformations or data models are required.
• Improve reliability and observability across the stack - alerting, logging, error handling, performance monitoring, and service health - so that system failures are detected and resolved quickly.
• Build audit-ready capabilities in partnership with the Legal department, including role-based access controls, evidence exports, and durable records of what the system surfaced and when.
• Instrument feedback loops so that investigator dispositions and case outcomes improve system precision over time.
• Support active investigations by rapidly developing application features, internal tools, or views needed by the Integrity Team and Legal department, occasionally on short timelines during the season.
• Document the system clearly, write and maintain tests, participate in code review, and standardize conventions across the codebase to ensure long-term maintainability.

Required Skills/Knowledge

• Proficiency in Python and modern JavaScript/TypeScript, with production experience on both the server and client sides of an application.
• Experience building and operating backend services and scheduled or orchestrated jobs on cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Understanding of sports betting markets - odds, line movement, limits, player props, and market maker behavior - and of basketball data such as play-by-play, box score, and tracking data.
• Strong SQL skills and familiarity with relational data modeling and cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake.
• Experience with a modern front-end framework and demonstrated ability to design usable interfaces for analytical or investigative workflows.
• Familiarity with Git-based development workflows (GitHub or Azure DevOps), CI/CD, containerization (Docker), and automated testing.
• Experience integrating third-party APIs and building robust applications around external services with evolving, incomplete, or inconsistent data.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with non-technical stakeholders, including attorneys and investigators.
• Sound judgment and discretion in handling confidential and legally sensitive information.
• Confident individual, able to work in a fast-paced environment and manage short-term deliverables along with long-term projects.
• Excels when working as part of a team, collaborating effectively both within BSG Integrity and cross-functionally.

Preferred Skills/Knowledge

• Experience with Airflow or a comparable orchestration and scheduling platform.
• Experience with Databricks, including Spark, Delta Lake, or Unity Catalog.
• Working knowledge of applied machine learning and experience integrating model inference into production applications.
• Experience building LLM-based applications (retrieval, summarization, or agentic workflows), particularly for document-heavy or investigative use cases.
• Familiarity with graph databases and graph-based data modeling; experience with Amazon Neptune or a comparable graph database is a plus.
• Experience integrating open-source intelligence or third-party intelligence services into production applications.
• Experience with data visualization libraries and dashboard design.
• Prior work on integrity, surveillance, fraud, AML, or trust and safety systems is a plus.
• Experience in sports, gaming, or another regulated or compliance-driven environment is a plus.

Experience/Education

Experience/Education Bachelor’s degree required in computer science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, or a related technical field; master’s degree preferred. Minimum 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including experience developing production backend or full-stack applications.

Salary Range

Salary Range: $155,000-$180,000

Job Posting Title

Job Posting Title: Senior Manager

Employee Compensation and Benefits

Employees currently are eligible to receive an annual discretionary performance bonus, awarded at the sole discretion of the Company and subject to any terms and conditions set by the Company. Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company-sponsored employee benefit programs: medical; dental; vision; life/AD&D insurance; short- and long-term disability; fertility and family-forming assistance; wellbeing allowance; educational assistance; mental health coaching/therapy; tax advantaged accounts such as HSA and healthcare/dependent care FSAs; a 401(k) retirement plan; and time off benefits that include vacation, sick time, and personal days.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We Consider Applicants For All Positions On The Basis Of Merit, Qualifications And Business Needs, And Without Regard To Race, Color, National Origin, Religion, Sex, Gender Identity, Age, Disability, Alienage Or Citizenship Status, Ancestry, Marital Status, Creed, Genetic Predisposition Or Carrier Status, Sexual Orientation, Veteran Status, Familial Status, Status As A Victim Of Domestic Violence Or Any Other Status Or Characteristic Protected By Applicable Federal, State, Or Local Law.

COVID-19 Workplace Safety

The NBA is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace. To safeguard our employees and their families, our visitors, and the broader community from COVID-19, and in consideration of recommendations from health authorities and the NBA’s own advisors, any individual working onsite in our New York and New Jersey offices must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The NBA will discuss accommodations for individuals who cannot be vaccinated due to a medical reason or sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance.

About the NBA

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a global sports and media organization with the mission to inspire and connect people everywhere through the power of basketball. Built around five professional sports leagues: the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League and Basketball Africa League, the NBA has established a major international presence with games and programming available in 214 countries and territories in 60 languages, and merchandise for sale in more than 200 countries and territories on all seven continents. NBA rosters at the start of the 2024-25 season featured a record-tying 125 international players from a record-tying 43 countries. NBA Digital’s assets include NBA TV, NBA.com, the NBA App and NBA League Pass. The NBA has created one of the largest social media communities in the world, with more than 2.3 billion likes and followers globally across all leagues, team and player platforms. NBA Cares, the NBA’s global social responsibility platform, partners with renowned community-based organizations around the world to address important social issues in the areas of education, inclusion, youth and family development, and health and wellness. At the NBA, we're passionate about growing and celebrating the game of basketball. Through the intensity of the game and the amazing athletic skill of our players, we deliver excitement to hundreds of millions of fans around the world. As a global sports and media business, the NBA is so much more. While Basketball Operations runs the league's on-court activities, other departments manage relationships with television and digital media partners, develop marketing partnerships with some of the world's most recognizable companies, oversee the licensing of NBA merchandise, and handle a wide range of responsibilities that drive the NBA's success. Off the court, we're also deeply committed to social responsibility. NBA Cares leads the league's involvement in addressing important social issues by working with internationally recognized youth-serving organizations that support education, youth and family development, and health-related causes.