Backend Java Developer

Company Description

We’re the world’s leading sports technology company, at the intersection between sports, media, and betting. More than 1,700 sports federations, media outlets, betting operators, and consumer platforms across 120 countries rely on our know-how and technology to boost their business.

Job Description

OVERVIEW:

Sportradar, the global leader in understanding and leveraging the power of sports data and digital content, is seeking a Backend Developer for the Audio-Visual team in Trondheim. As the official data- and streaming provider for some of the world's largest sports leagues, Sportradar has exclusive distribution rights to in-game data, live streaming and connected services for more than 1.500 live games per day from every corner of the world. We build innovative products in the intersection of live data and live streaming with an experienced team of domain experts.

 
We are a truly international business employing over 4,000 people in more than 30 locations around the world. Our rapid growth has been driven by technological innovation alongside an understanding of our client's business needs. It is our commitment to excellent service, quality and reliability that makes us the trusted partner of more than 1,000 companies in over 100 countries.

 
We occupy a unique position at the intersection of the sports, media and betting industries. This creates an exciting and fast-moving working environment that rewards creative thinking and hard work. We are passionate about what we do, and we care passionately about our people. 

 
If you think you're up to the challenge, come and help us to grow, innovate and develop!

THE CHALLENGE:

Working as a part of the Audio-Visual Tribe development team in Trondheim, the Backend Java Developer will be responsible for implementing backend applications together with team members to deliver all our live streams, Video on Demand services, live video clipping, and OTT premium services for major sports-leagues and fedrations . We are looking for a new developer to our Video Technology team to work with our Java backend components for our video workflow management and orchestration platform, which in cloud native environments in AWS. The Audiovisual engineering-teams in Trondheim support the business needs of the AV vertical for content and client management, analytics, live operations, and post-match reporting. Most of the daily tasks involve working with Java, SpringBoot, Kubernetes, Gitlab CI/CD, AWS Aurora, Redis and other tools.

We are seeing an increasing demand for our video-streaming product portfolio and we are therefore looking to increase our team with Java developer. You will be involved in delivering hundreds of TB of video content daily to millions of end-users all over the world, as well as live clips and VOD's. We cover sporting events like NBA and ATP to hundreds of clients, requiring high uptime and a global presence in multiple cloud data centres. Want to create a live clip of Nadal delivering that winning serve? Or making sure the stream from the venue is delivered to our infrastructure with full observability?

We are looking for someone who has a clear passion for development and creating state-of-the-art solutions, an interested in streaming of video, and having a sound working knowledge of Java as well as good skills in databases and MySQL, knows new and current technological trends, designs and development processes, keeps an eye on results correctness as well as solution testability and maintainability.

As our Backend Developer, you will:

• Work with the following tech stack: Java (majority is on 21), SpringBoot 3, Kubernetes, MySQL, Lambda, S3, RDS, etc.

• Participate in Code Reviews and writing tests – we are a quality-focused company

• Contribute to developing new solutions, sharing your ideas and opinions, and implementing them

• Have a space to develop your skills during our self-development time program

YOUR PROFILE:
 

Must have:

• At least 2-3 years of experience in backend technologies like Java or Kotlin.

• Passion for developing quality software - that will run 24/7 to deliver 1500+ live streamed sports-games per day

• A problem-solving attitude, i.e. not just focused on writing code, but on tackling complex problems and determining how best to solve them.

• Understanding of software architecture principles

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of Kubernetes and AWS services like EKS, RDS, Lambda, etc.

• Experience with Java Testing Frameworks

• Familiarity with API development

• Willingness to practice TDD and pair programming

• Proactively identify improvement areas and propose changes with clear benefits to the team

PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Communication in English is a must 

• Willingness to learn new technologies

• Positive, team player with a can-do attitude

• See any problem as a challenge and search for solutions together with a team

• Dedication to create innovative and maintainable products

OUR OFFER: 

• Competitive salary based on knowledge and experience 

• Flexible working hours and hybrid work model - work-life balance is important! 

• Working with AWS as our Enterprise partner and building your skills around their offering.

• We have time to learn new technologies, tools and to use them 

• Stable job in a multi-national team (from offices all over the world) 

• Participation in challenging projects, conferences, training 

We do not expect you to have knowledge of all these technologies, but hope you want to learn! 

It is important what technical skills you have, but equally important is who you are as a person. At Sportradar, you will work in a team, so it is necessary that you have good collaboration skills and want to be a team player. You are eager, take a stand, and have no problem taking the initiative if you see that something can be done differently or made more efficient. You are hungry to learn and have a positive attitude. Do you recognize yourself in this? Then we want to get to know you better! 

Buckle up, hold on tight and get ready for an incredible adrenaline rush throughout this exciting ride with us: #maketheteam and shape your future as well as ours! 

Qualifications

Additional Information

Sportradar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to encourage diversity within our teams. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to among other things, your background, status, or personal preferences