Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

A bit about us 

Genius Sports is at the forefront of the sports technology landscape, delivering real-time data and innovative digital solutions that connect sports, brands, and fans worldwide. From data capture to distribution, we are an integral partner to sports leagues and federations—including the NFL, English Premier League, FIBA, and NCAA—ensuring that critical data and cutting-edge products reach millions of users.  

If you want to be part of a passionate global team shaping the future of sports entertainment, then come and join us. We foster an environment where creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning drive innovation for our partners and end-users.  
The Role: Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to join our Product Engineering group to help build and improve our AI-based sports analytics products. This group is primarily responsible for our web and mobile applications that are used by teams, leagues, coaches, and fans. They ensure our customers have a seamless user experience within our products for the thousands of sporting events we run each year.
This role is based in our Los Angeles office. Join our team and add your talents to building a hub for all of Genius Sports.
Responsibilities & duties

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve our customer-facing and internal applications
• Contribute to multiple layers of our stack, from our web front-end, backend APIs, and databases
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, UI/UX Designers, and other software engineers
• Assist with reliability, stability, and availability of applications
• Own reliability, stability, and availability of systems applications
• Mentor other engineers both technically and professionally
• Maintain best practices for software development, including deployment process, documentation, and adherence to and improvement of coding standards.
• Assess and drive adoption of emerging technologies and techniques
• Provide technical leadership, including code review, practices, and skill development
• Communicate technical commitments and decisions to team and external stakeholders
• Discuss and distribute knowledge, technical concepts, and ideas with any member of our diverse organization
• Participate in our engineering culture by embracing opportunities to learn from others

Our Stack:

• Client-side: ReactJS, NextJS, TypeScript, HTML/CSS, Design Systems
• Server-side: GraphQL, REST, NodeJS, TypeScript, Postgres, Redis, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, Auth0, Rust
• Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, ElasticCache), Docker, Linux, Terraform
• Codebase: Git with GitLab

Required skills & experience

• 5+ years of hands-on, full-time software development experience
• Experience building production web apps using ReactJS and NodeJS
• Customer-focus with an understanding that shipping software involves tradeoff and collaboration
• Ability to articulate and make decisions about trade-offs between rapid iteration and high-quality products
• Self-motivation and ability to work independently in an efficient manner
• Experience collaborating across multiple disciplines (front-end, back-end, databases, infrastructure, and product design)
• Ability to take point on technical discussions and feature prioritization
• Bachelors in computer science or equivalent experience, with strong software engineering components

What Will Set You Apart:

• Experience with GraphQL (client or server)
• Experience with Rust
• Ability to articulate and make decisions about trade-offs between rapid iteration and high-quality products
• Ability to take point on technical discussions and feature prioritization
• Experience working with Video Streaming Applications

What’s in it for you? 

As well as a competitive salary and annual leave allowance, our benefits include health insurance, skills training and much more, depending on the location. We also offer a host of softer benefits, including many social events throughout the year such as summer and winter holiday parties, monthly team building events, sports tournaments, charity days and wellbeing activities.    

The base salary range for this role is $145,000 - $200,000. There are a number of factors which affect what the specific pay offer would be for this role, including location, seniority, and relevant educational and working experience. This is base salary only – all full-time roles will also be eligible to take part in Genius benefits and some roles may be eligible to take part in a variable compensation plan. For more details on the compensation and benefits package, please get in touch with our Talent team.   

How we work 

Genius will be returning to the office 4 days a week, and this will give you the opportunity to work collaboratively face-to-face with colleagues in our Los Angeles office.   

Our employees are empowered to stretch the boundaries of what’s achievable, always reaching further and pushing the edges to see what gives. We collaborate, we innovate, and we celebrate. We will continue to grow as an organization and continue to invest in our highly talented and diverse team of Geniuses.     

Genius Sports Group is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We recognize and celebrate the benefits that a diverse and inclusive workforce brings to our business, our customers and our staff. We welcome and will consider all applications regardless of age, different abilities or disability, gender reassignment, marriage, pregnancy, maternity, race or nationality, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation (and any other applicable status). Please let us know when you apply if you need any assistance during the recruiting process due to a disability.