Software Engineer

Global Sports Jobs Limited

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 155,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

401K contribution

Paid time off and holidays

Paid parental leave

MLB game tickets

MLBShop discounts

EAP

Training programs

Tuition reimbursement

Disability benefits

Life insurance

Pet insurance

Job summary

Major League Baseball is seeking a Software Engineer for a cross-platform team shipping the Mobile MLB App and MLB.TV Connected TV experience, focusing on streaming and subscriptions. The engineer will work in small, outcome-driven squads that rotate focus based on business priorities, collaborating closely with product, design, QA, and partner teams.

The role emphasizes delivering reliable, high-quality experiences while maintaining parity across CTV stacks and a shared design system, in a

Qualifications

3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Strong experience building and shipping iOS applications in production using 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.

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

iOS app development

UIKit/SwiftUI

Mobile architecture

Networking

State management

Testing & monitoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Release cycles

Code review

Mentoring

Tools

tvOS

Analytics instrumentation

Design system

API contracts

QA tooling

Job description

About the Role

Major League Baseball is looking for a Software Engineer to join a cross-platform engineering group that ships its Mobile MLB App and MLB.TV Connected TV experience focused on Streaming and Subscriptions. The engineer will work in small, outcome-driven squads that rotate focus based on business priorities, collaborating closely with product, design, QA, and partner teams. Success means shipping reliable, high-quality user experiences while maintaining platform parity with other CTV stacks and aligning with a shared design system.

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 using 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

Can be based out of the Boulder, Colorado or New York City office locations
Applicants should select the appropriate office for which they wish to apply in the application

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