Staff Software Engineer — Real-Time Ad & Fan Engagement

Genius Sports; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 240,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits plan

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Genius Sports in New York is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to build the systems powering our Advertising and Fan Engagement products. You will own end-to-end features across the stack, guide architectural decisions, and mentor engineers in a collaborative, office-first environment.

The role emphasizes real-time, scalable distributed systems, API design, and interfacing with data pipelines and services. Hybrid work model with travel as needed; competitive compensation and a comprehensive

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Experience operating distributed systems.
• Experience building real-time systems and interactive web frontends.
• Experience designing APIs and integrating services.
• Experience managing relational databases, indexing, queries, and migrations.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop systems and applications that power our automated, real-time Advertising and Fan Engagement products.
• Own and implement features end-to-end across the stack, taking responsibility for the system lifecycle from development to deployment and support.
• Lead technical discussions, drive architectural decisions, and identify opportunities to improve scalability and operational efficiency.
• Provide guidance and direction to product to translate ideas into technical solutions.
• Design and maintain the foundational platform that powers our systems and supports development by engineering teams.
• Design and improve testing and release strategies for complex systems including backend services, web apps, data pipelines, and streaming services.
• Monitor, analyze, and continuously improve system performance and reliability.
• Provide mentorship and leadership in our local and broader engineering community.
• Design and build mechanisms for human or agent-in-the-loop workflows to validate and enhance outputs.

Skills

Distributed systems

Real-time systems

APIs & integration

Relational databases

Messaging systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

PostgreSQL

Job description

Genius Sports in New York is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to build the systems powering our Advertising and Fan Engagement products. You will own end-to-end features across the stack, guide architectural decisions, and mentor engineers in a collaborative, office-first environment.

The role emphasizes real-time, scalable distributed systems, API design, and interfacing with data pipelines and services. Hybrid work model with travel as needed; competitive compensation and a comprehensive