Senior Golang Engineer, Sport Buff
Sports fan engagement & gamification media
Job no longer available
Sports fan engagement & gamification media
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
Sport Buff's mission is to allow sports fans to experience, participate and be part of the story.
Role
Who you are
- Experience with Golang (3+ years)
- Excellent experience creating and running web APIs
- Excellent experience with databases
- Excellent experience with testing
- Experience building high-performance and fault-tolerant applications
- Experience with cloud based applications
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Desirable
- Experience with Agile development and rapid iteration cycles
- A background in startups
- Experience working with live sports data feeds and APIs (OPTA, Sportradar, etc)
- Being a fan of live sports and watching sports
- Experience deployment/management/troubleshooting of AWS infrastructure
What the job involves
- You will be responsible for developing and maintaining our REST API (written in Golang) as well as planning and implementing new technologies to help us scale our systems to serve millions of users
- Τechnical design and architecture
- Code new features as well as maintaining existing features
- Write technical documentation
- Participate and run code reviews
- Prototype new and redesign features
- Provide unsolicited advice on the product
- Fixing bugs
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
While sports broadcast media rights are worth $50 billion globally, Sport Buff points out that even though viewers are heavily engaged, much of their actual discourse, digital interaction, and crucially, spending, happens away from a broadcaster’s platform, on social media channels, chat groups, and betting apps.
In a bid to increase engagement, as well as monetization opportunities for broadcasters, Sports Buff allows them to insert interactive graphics such as game stats, polls, predictions, and quizzes into live streams.
Launched in 2019 by major sports media veteran Jonty Whitehead and serial sports tech entrepreneur Benn Achilleas, the company is growing impressively, already working with a number of major broadcasters including Major League Soccer (MLS), DAZN, and Fox Sports Australia, while its investors also include the owners of English Premier League Clubs Brentford and Southampton.
Insights
Company
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2022
$2.5m
SEED
Total funding: $2.5m
Company benefits
- Work directly with some of the greatest sports brands in the world.
- Work in an exciting fast paced tech start up environment.
- Direct access to business and industry leaders and top athletes.
- A hugely passionate team who will support you all along the way.
- Working with some of the latest technology creating a new experience for the public.
- Flexible start and finish times – though you need to be available for daily briefings.
- A fantastic learning experience, with long term potential from being one of the first hires in what will become a significant team and product.
- Being part of something very special as we change the way sports fans engage with content.
- At Sport Buff, you are a key person of the team and company, and you will actually own some of the company you are building (with the employee equity scheme). Being part of this business at this stage gives you power to shape the business for the future, not just the product but the culture and team too.
Company HQ
Soho, London, UK
Articles
Founders
Benn Achilleas
(CEO)Has founded three previous sports tech companies - Playabl, TrueFan, and neoco, working with major brands like Sony PlayStation, 2K Games, Real Madrid, Juventus and Manchester City.
Jonty Whitehead
(President)Extensive sports broadcasting experience with Sky, Al-Jazeera, FOX, and beIN. Former beIN Head of Sports for MENA and Executive Producer for FOX Soccer.
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