Software Engineer

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

401K contribution

Paid time off

Parental leave

MLB tickets

MLB.TV access

Store discounts

EAP

Training programs

Tuition reimbursement

Disability benefits

Life insurance

Pet insurance

Job summary

Major League Baseball is seeking a Software Engineer to join a cross-platform engineering group for the Mobile MLB App and MLB.TV Connected TV experiences. You will work in small squads focused on streaming, subscriptions, and building high-quality user experiences.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product, design, QA, and partner teams, with a strong focus on code quality, observability, and release readiness. Boulder and NYC offices are included, with a fast-paced release cadence.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong experience building and shipping iOS applications in production (Swift; UIKit and/or SwiftUI).
• Solid understanding of mobile architecture, networking, state management, and error handling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and ship features on multiple surfaces with emphasis on media playback and subscription flows.
• Partner with engineers on other platforms to deliver consistent behaviour and shared contracts (APIs, analytics, entitlements, UX rules).
• Contribute to code quality, observability, and release readiness (crash reduction, performance, feature flags, rollback-friendly delivery).
• Participate in squad planning, estimation, and retrospectives; occasionally serve as mission tech lead for a focused initiative.
• Integrate with the design library and token-based UI patterns; raise gaps early with design and platform owners.
• Review code, mentor peers, and improve engineering practices within the team.

Skills

Swift

UIKit

SwiftUI

Mobile architecture

Networking

Cross-functional teams

Code review

Tools

Xcode

Git

Job description

About the Role

Major League Baseball is looking for a Software Engineer to join a cross-platform engineering group that ships the Mobile MLB App and MLB.TV Connected TV experience, with a focus on streaming and subscriptions. The role involves working in small, outcome-driven squads that rotate focus based on business priorities, where success means shipping reliable, high-quality user experiences while maintaining platform parity with other CTV stacks and aligning with a shared design system. The engineer will collaborate closely with product, design, QA, and partner teams across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and ship features on multiple surfaces with emphasis on media playback and subscription flows
• Partner with engineers on other platforms to deliver consistent behaviour and shared contracts (APIs, analytics, entitlements, UX rules)
• Contribute to code quality, observability, and release readiness (crash reduction, performance, feature flags, rollback-friendly delivery)
• Participate in squad planning, estimation, and retrospectives; occasionally serve as mission tech lead for a focused initiative
• Integrate with the design library and token-based UI patterns; raise gaps early with design and platform owners
• Review code, mentor peers, and improve engineering practices within the team

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong experience building and shipping iOS applications in production (Swift; UIKit and/or SwiftUI)
• Solid understanding of mobile architecture, networking, state management, and error handling
• Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams (product, design, QA) with clear ownership and communication
• Comfort working in fast release cycles with testing, monitoring, and incremental rollout practices
• Pragmatic approach to tradeoffs: clarity, maintainability, and user impact over perfection

Preferred Skills

• Experience with tvOS / Apple TV (focus engine, remote interactions, TV-safe UX patterns)
• Background in video streaming (players, playback lifecycle, DRM-adjacent workflows, QoE) and/or subscriptions (purchase, restore, entitlements, paywalls)
• Familiarity with analytics instrumentation and experiment-friendly feature delivery
• Experience adopting or contributing to a shared design system (components, tokens, accessibility standards)
• Exposure to Android / Android TV / Fire TV or willingness to learn cross-platform parity practices
• Strong focus on architectural intent, system design, and code verification guardrails when overseeing AI-generated implementations
• Experience strategically applying AI tools for high-impact engineering tasks, such as generating unit tests, documentation, and managing technical debt/refactoring

Workplace

• Boulder, Colorado office
• New York City office

Salary

• $120,000 - $155,000 Base salary, plus bonus; actual compensation contingent upon work experience, education, skills, and other factors MLB considers relevant

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive benefits package
• Company 401K contribution
• Paid time off and holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Access to free tickets to baseball games and MLB.TV
• Discounts at the MLB Store
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Onsite/online training and development programs
• Tuition reimbursement
• Disability benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and accidental death insurance
• Pet insurance

About the Company

Employees who are most successful at MLB take initiative, identify problems and provide solutions, and always put the Team first.