Senior Backend Java Engineer

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# Senior Software Engineer (Java) at Beyond Sports ## **Join Our Team as a Senior Software Engineer (Java) at Beyond Sports!** Are you passionate about building scalable backend systems, driving technical architecture, and creating real-time sports technology that captures global audiences? At Beyond Sports, we don’t just visualize sports, we reinvent how fans experience them. Together with partners like NFL, NHL, FIFA, and Disney, we push the boundaries of real-time sports data, 3D graphics, and AI-driven storytelling across web and native mobile platforms. If you're an experienced Senior Java Engineer who thrives in a collaborative environment, excels as a Tech Lead within delivery squads, and wants to work with high-volume sports data, video streams, and live match feeds, this is the perfect next step in your career. ## What Your Day Will Look Like As a Senior Software Engineer (Java), you'll play a central role in building and scaling backend systems that power live fan engagement for millions of sports fans worldwide. Working at the heart of our engineering delivery squads, you'll collaborate closely with Product Managers, Designers, Data Engineers, and Frontend Developers. One day you might be architecting event-driven microservices to ingest live match data and commentary feeds. The next, you could be optimizing RESTful APIs for high concurrency during major sporting events, leading release deployments, or establishing technical guilds to drive Java best practices across the engineering chapter. You'll serve as an effective Tech Lead, taking ownership of technical execution, mentoring fellow developers, and ensuring our codebases remain clean, maintainable, and built to scale under massive live loads. ## What We Value At Beyond Sports, we move fast, collaborate closely, and build things that haven't existed before. You'll fit right in if you: - Take pride in writing clean, well-tested, and extensible code that sets the standard for the wider team - Drive clarity through exceptional verbal and technical communication with internal teams and external data providers - Embrace ownership of squad deliverables, effectively scoping, assigning, and tracking technical tasks - Bring a continuous growth mindset, establishing technical working groups and sharing new techniques - Value attention to detail in production software and ensure quality across every release environment - Lead and motivate fellow engineers with empathy, guiding their technical development through effective mentorship ## Your Background You don't need to tick every box, but we're generally looking for: **Expert Knowledge** - **Java Core:** Proven expertise in Java 17+ - **Frameworks:** Strong background with Spring Boot and Spring 5+ - **Data Persistence:** Deep experience with JPA / Hibernate and relational databases (SQL) - **Architecture:** Hands-on experience designing and building Microservice Architectures and RESTful APIs - **Version Control & Management:** Mastery of Git workflows and Jira for task management - **Quality Assurance:** Commitment to comprehensive Unit Testing and technical documentation **Competent With** - **Streaming & Event Systems:** Kafka or similar message brokers - **Containerization & Cloud:** Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS products - **Build & CI/CD:** Maven and Continuous Integration pipelines **Understanding Of** - Python scripting - Web basics (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) ## Optional & Extended Responsibilities Depending on your career goals and squad setup, this role offers room to take on expanded leadership responsibilities: - **Engineering Mentorship:** Leading and motivating team members to build their technical skills and fulfill their potential - **Line Management:** Providing line management for developers (up to 1 day per week), including performance reviews, 1:1 support, and career mapping - **Chapter & Guild Leadership:** Acting as a Chapter Lead for backend development or founding technical Guilds/Working Groups to drive engineering standards across the company ## Why Level Up Your Career at Beyond Sports Fast-moving, creative, and innovative — that's our world. - **Global Scale:** Build backend systems that process real-time data for millions of global sports fans - **Tech Leadership:** Drive architecture decisions, technical guilds, and engineering standards - **Data Variety:** Work with live match feeds, video streaming, 3D graphics data, and AI-driven content - **Growth Culture:** Structured paths into Chapter Lead, Principal Engineer, or Engineering Management roles - **Real Collaboration:** Partner directly with specialized engineers, product managers, and sports domain experts ## Ready to Bring the Beyond Sports Brand to Life? If you're excited about architecting high-performance Java systems, leading engineering squads, and contributing to a brand that's helping redefine sports entertainment, we'd love to hear from you. At Beyond Sports, you won't just write code. You'll help bring sports to life. ###