Boston Red Sox · 12 hours ago
Lead Developer, Baseball Systems
Boston, MA, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$130K/yr - $165K/yr
5+ years expThe Boston Red Sox are seeking a Lead Developer for their Baseball Systems team, focused on designing, building, and refining software and data pipelines used in Baseball Operations. This role involves collaborating with baseball operations to develop complex front-end applications and support all baseball systems.
Sports
Responsibilities
Serve as a systems resource and subject matter expert in the design and delivery of data-intensive, highly interactive interfaces that serve a broad collection of front office stakeholders
Contribute to the advancement of the overall architecture by partnering with other domain leads within Baseball Systems, and establishing best practices and patterns through delivery
Participate in key phases of the software development process of critical baseball applications, including requirements gathering, analysis, effort estimation, technical investigation, software design and implementation, testing, bug fixing, and quality assurance
Responsible for the design and development of complex web-based user interfaces, web services, back-end logic, and other aspects of web applications
Actively participate with other software developers in design reviews, code reviews, and other best practices
Work closely at times with baseball analysts to design and implement solutions to their data needs
Respond to and resolve technical problems and issues in a timely manner
Identify and implement creative solutions for technical challenges
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
5+ years of deep experience building web applications in Angular (or React w/ a willingness to learn), and experience developing with Typescript, CSS/Tailwind, GraphQL, and other modern development approaches
Experience with relational database design and development in SQL Server, Snowflake, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or similar technologies, is required
Aptitude and ability to apply academic or applied experience in software development or data engineering related field
An understanding of frontend and backend development and proficiency with modern databases and programming languages
Ability to pick up quickly and think both creatively and critically to solve problems
A solid understanding of contemporary baseball and/or sports analysis and development practices
A team-player that collaborates effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Ability to work autonomously and as a team in a fast paced environment
High level of attention to detail with the ability to multi-task effectively
Comfortable working remotely when required and using Zoom, Teams, Slack, Trello, and other tools to communicate with all team members
High degree of professionalism and ability to maintain confidential information
Excellent organizational and time management skills
Preferred
Experience building front-end visualizations using Three.js, D3, chart.js, or similar, is a plus
Experience developing with cloud technologies from Azure, GCP, or AWS are a plus
Experience integrating systems and data using third-party APIs and services are a plus
Benefits
Annual incentive pay
Comprehensive benefits package
Company
Boston Red Sox
Major League Baseball club and member of the American League East Division. It is a sub-organization of Fenway Sports Group.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
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