Senior Software Engineer AI-Driven Real-Time Systems

ShotTracker; Overland Park (KS); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Overland Park, KS HQ

Job summary

ShotTracker, headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to help build real-time sports data and analytics platforms. You’ll design scalable systems, implement APIs, and work with AI-assisted development tools to improve speed and quality.

You’ll collaborate with Engineering, Product, Data Science, and we’ll leverage AWS, NATS PubSub, and Apache Ignite to deliver reliable, cloud-based solutions powering ShotTracker products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field with 4+ years of software engineering experience, or 6+ years of equivalent professional software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java development, object‑oriented programming, and modern software design principles.
• Experience with Java testing methodologies, automated testing, Groovy, and Spock.
• Experience developing APIs and WebSocket‑based solutions using Ruby.
• Proficiency with AWS technologies and cloud‑based application development.
• Experience with real‑time or distributed technologies such as NATS PubSub and Apache Ignite.
• Experience with Git based version control, Bitbucket, Jira, and Agile development practices.
• Strong technical problem‑solving skills and the ability to independently investigate and resolve complex software and system issues.
• The ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with engineers, Data Science, Product, and other cross‑functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Design Solutions: Translate product and business requirements into thoughtful technical designs built for performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Own Quality: Write clean, maintainable code, participate in code reviews, build automated tests, and help maintain high engineering standards.
• Develop with AI: Use tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and other AI-assisted development technologies for coding, refactoring, debugging, testing, and review.
• Explore Agentic Development: Incorporate agentic and autonomous coding workflows to support increasingly sophisticated development tasks and processes.
• Build Integrations: Develop and maintain APIs, WebSocket functionality, real‑time frameworks, and integrations across ShotTracker systems.
• Work in the Cloud: Build and support solutions using AWS technologies including DynamoDB, EC2, ALB, ECS, Systems Manager, and related services.
• Power Real-Time Data: Work with technologies including NATS PubSub, Apache Ignite, and Tinybird to support real‑time and distributed systems.
• Partner with Data Science: Collaborate on feature pipelines, model serving APIs, data requirements, and the integration of Data Science capabilities into ShotTracker products.
• Solve Problems: Dig into complex technical challenges, identify root causes, and build solutions that improve system performance, stability, and reliability.
• Keep Improving: Help us improve our architecture, development practices, automation, tooling, and the way our engineering team works.

Skills

Java development

OOP

Software design principles

Testing methodologies

Groovy

Spock

APIs

WebSocket

Ruby

AWS

Real-time technologies

NATS PubSub

Apache Ignite

Git

Bitbucket

Jira

Agile

AI tooling

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Agentic development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Ruby

Git

Bitbucket

Jira

Spock

Groovy

Job description

ShotTracker, headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to help build real-time sports data and analytics platforms. You’ll design scalable systems, implement APIs, and work with AI-assisted development tools to improve speed and quality.

You’ll collaborate with Engineering, Product, Data Science, and we’ll leverage AWS, NATS PubSub, and Apache Ignite to deliver reliable, cloud-based solutions powering ShotTracker products.