Staff Engineer

Are you a technology leader passionate about sports, high-performance systems, and shaping the future of risk management in sports betting?

Join our dynamic MTS team as a Staff Engineer — a key role in defining the architecture, scalability, and performance of our cutting-edge Risk Management System. You will drive technical excellence, mentor engineers, and influence strategic decisions, ensuring our system remains at the forefront of innovation. Our platform validates betting tickets in near real-time, ensuring integrity across millions of transactions spanning 300 brands, 170 bookmakers, and 40+ countries, with a user base exceeding 3.5 million.

ABOUT US:

We pride ourselves on being pioneers in sports betting technology. Our 100+ strong engineering team develops SaaS solutions using a test-driven approach, leveraging AWS to build a scalable and robust infrastructure capable of processing up to 1800 transactions per second. Our system continuously updates the state of betting markets up to 2000 times per second, providing real-time insights and an unmatched customer experience.

As a Staff Engineer, you will be the decision-maker in choosing the next engineering project by actively engaging with stakeholders to identify critical business needs and technical opportunities. You will lead and influence engineering decisions across multiple teams, collaborating closely with engineering and product leadership to drive innovation, scalability, and reliability. You will actively mentor engineers and contribute to shaping the engineering culture of our organization.

THE CHALLENGE:

• Technical Strategy & Architecture: Drive the evolution of our architecture, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability in a highly distributed system.
• Project Selection & Stakeholder Engagement: Own the identification and prioritization of high-impact engineering initiatives through direct engagement with key stakeholders.
• Cross-Team Influence & Leadership: Guide engineers across squads, elevate technical competencies, and advocate for high-impact improvements.
• Innovation & Research: Investigate and assess emerging technologies to solve complex challenges.
• Operational Excellence & Automation: Promote best practices in system design, observability, and automation.
• Scalability & Performance: Architect distributed, event-driven systems capable of handling high-volume real-time transactions with minimal latency.
• Security & Best Practices: Ensure secure authentication and authorization mechanisms across services.
• Observability & Monitoring: Implement system-wide observability using NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD: Automate and optimize delivery pipelines using Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD and GitLab CI/CD.

ABOUT YOU:

• 5+ years of engineering experience, with expertise in building distributed, high-scale architectures.
• Proficiency in JVM-based languages (Java/Kotlin/Scala) or other modern programming languages.
• A strong background in system design, scalability, and fault tolerance.
• Experience in architecting event-driven, real-time systems.
• Expertise in Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.
• A proactive and strategic mindset, making autonomous, high-impact technical decisions.
• Strong collaboration and leadership skills, with the ability to influence across teams.

BONUS POINTS:

• Experience in Agile development practices.
• Hands-on expertise with AWS services (Kafka/MSK, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, Aurora, ElastiCache, Elasticsearch, Lambda, API Gateway).
• Background in performance profiling, observability, and monitoring large-scale systems.

OUR OFFER:

• Work with state-of-the-art equipment to solve our technological challenges.
• Collaborate and support colleagues all around the world.
• The opportunity to work and develop within an inspiring and fast-growing company.
• A challenging, but rewarding and fun environment.
• Work with microservice architectures, cloud providers and other modern and emerging technologies.
• The opportunity to join an exciting team making impacts on our services and our customers’ products.
• New office with several additional benefits.

OUR RECRUITMENT PROCESS:

• Initial Screening: A quick chat with our Talent Acquisition Partner to understand your background and expectations.
• Technical Assessment: A short task to showcase your technical skills.
• One/Two technical Interviews: Meet with the Technical team and Hiring Manager to dive into your solution and your expertise, as also discuss team fit.
• Final Steps: Receive feedback and, if successful, an offer!

If you’re ready to take on a high-impact leadership role, shape the future of sports betting technology, and own the selection of strategic engineering initiatives, apply today!

Additional Information

At Sportradar, we celebrate our diverse group of hardworking employees. Sportradar is committed to ensuring equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment opportunities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. We encourage you to apply even if you only meet most of the requirements (but not 100% of the listed criteria) -- we believe skills evolve over time. If you’re willing to learn and grow with us, we invite you to join our team!