Software Engineer

Major League Baseball (MLB); New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Benefits Package

Company 401K Contribution

Paid Time Off and Holidays

Paid Parental Leave

Access to Free Tickets to Baseball

Discounts at MLB Shop

Employee Assistance Programs

Onsite/Online Training & Development

Tuition Reimbursement

Disability Benefits

Life and Accidental Death Insurance

Pet Insurance

Job summary

Major League Baseball is seeking a Software Engineer to join a cross-platform engineering group that ships our Mobile MLB App and MLB.TV Connected TV experience focused on Streaming and Subscriptions.

You will work in small, outcome-driven squads that rotate focus based on business priorities. Success means shipping reliable, high-quality user experiences while keeping platform parity with our other CTV stacks and aligning with our shared design system with other feature delivery teams.

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.

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 behavior 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 our 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

iOS development

UIKit/SwiftUI

APIs/Networking

Testing/QA collaboration

Job description

Major League Baseball is looking for a Software Engineer to join a cross-platform engineering group that ships our Mobile MLB App and MLB.TV Connected TV experience focused on Streaming and Subscriptions.

You will work in small, outcome-driven squads that rotate focus based on business priorities. Success means shipping reliable, high-quality user experiences while keeping platform parity with our other CTV stacks and aligning with our shared design system with other feature delivery teams. You will collaborate closely with product, design, QA, and partner teams across the organization.

This position can be based out of our Boulder, Colorado or New York City office locations. Please be sure to select the appropriate office for which you wish to apply in the application.

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 behavior 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 our 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

Qualifications & Skills

• 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

Strongly preferred

• 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

Salary Range:

$120,000 - $155,000 (Base Salary) + Bonus

As a candidate for this position, your salary and related aspects of compensation will be contingent upon your work experience, education, skills, and any other factors MLB considers relevant to the hiring decision. In addition to your salary, MLB believes in providing a competitive compensation and benefits package for its employees.

Top MLB Perks & Benefits

• Competitive Benefits Package
• Company 401K Contribution
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• Access to Free Tickets to Baseball Games & MLB.TV
• Discounts at MLB Store | MLBShop.com
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Onsite/Online Training & Development Programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Pet Insurance

Why MLB?

Major League Baseball (MLB) is the most historic of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. Employees love working at MLB because of the culture of growth, teamwork, and professionalism. Employees who are most successful at MLB take initiative, know how to identify problems and provide solutions, and always put the Team first. For those ready to step up to the plate and join the major leagues, MLB takes the same approach as teams do with their players: empowering our “workforce athletes” to be at their best by engineering experiences that put employees in the best position to succeed. Major League Baseball is looking for candidates who are passionate about growing America’s pastime to best serve its fans for decades to come.

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