About OneFootball
OneFootball is the world’s #1 digital football platform, with more than 100 million active users across the world. Founded in 2008, we have come a long way to provide our users with the best personalised digital football experience.
At OneFootball, our purpose is to disrupt the status quo and make football more accessible, inclusive and enjoyable.
We are a product-driven company with an obsession of crafting a great user experience backed by world class engineering.
About The Team & Your Place In It
You will be joining the Video Platform team within the OTT business vertical at OneFootball.
As a media platform, our vision is to connect Football Fans with the best Football related content and media.
As a part of this team, you will have the opportunity to shape the growth of our video content platform, impacting over 100 million users with around 1 billion views.
This will be a senior-level engineering role. You should display a strong technical background and maturity in order to be successful in this role. We welcome candidates with 6-10 years of experience. However, we have seen people starting to display this maturity with less than 5 years of experience. So if you have what it takes, go ahead and apply.
The qualifications listed below are only indicative of our expectations. You do not need to meet all of them to be successful. You’ll fit right in as long as you are curious, and have the ability and willingness to learn things quickly.
What You’ll Do
- Build and continuously improve services that power world-class video experiences for Fans, Content Partners & Content Publishers on OneFootball
- Write high performing, maintainable, well-structured and well-tested code following SOLID principles
- Lead discussions on how to design systems and improve the technical architecture of our services using Serverless & Event Driven architectures
- Work in a cross-functional team and collaborate across different teams to solve user problems
- Ensure high availability, reliability and performance for our services
- Contribute to solving organisation-wide problems when it comes to backend engineering by collaborating with backend as well as platform engineers from different teams
- Work in a culture of collaborative and agile problem solving - adopting practices and principles from Extreme Programming and Continuous Delivery like mob & pair programming, YAGNI, TDD
- Work in a culture that combines fast delivery with safe deployments by adopting modern approaches to development like Continuous Delivery, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, Observability Driven Development
- Contribute to improving our product development process to continuously raise the bar for product delivery and developer experience
- Provide on-call support on a rotational basis
What You’ll Bring
- A strong grasp & fluency with writing & structuring idiomatic code in Go and JavaScript
- Strong experience building high performing services and APIs
- Experience designing and interacting with SQL & NoSQL databases
- Experience working with Serverless & Event Driven architectures
- Solid understanding of basic concepts of video engineering
- Curiosity, a collaborative mindset and strong problem solving skills
- The ability to understand the user problem at hand and propose solutions based on all trade-offs involved
- Familiarity with the latest best practices related to writing code, building and designing systems as well as delivering software
- Good understanding of cloud infrastructure and IaC tools like Terraform
- Working experience with Extreme Programming practices
- Interest in Machine Learning/NLP/AI
The Recruitment Process
- Application
- Chat with a recruiter
- Deep dive interviews
- Chat with your manager
- Pair programming task
- System design exercise
At OneFootball, we value the insights and ideas that stem from having a diverse team. We believe everyone should have the opportunity to be a part of the beautiful game—irrespective of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, age, background, sexual orientation, religion, team followed, or other personal traits.
Whether you're a dedicated 24/7 football fan or not, we actively seek to recruit and support a diverse team to ensure our platform, football, and the wider world are viewed through an inclusive lens.
Top Skills
What We Do
No one gets fans closer to the beautiful game than OneFootball. Reaching over 100 million monthly active users worldwide, OneFootball is the most popular football media platform for the new generation of football fanatics. Understanding that the world’s football obsession goes beyond the 90 minutes of a match, OneFootball users get access to the most comprehensive football coverage on and off the pitch: from breaking news, highlight clips and live streaming to statistics and live scores of hundreds of leagues and competitions worldwide – fans get all the content they crave. OneFootball is the only company to offer single live football matches in-app on a free and pay-per-view basis, while native integration from OneFootball’s network of over 150 clubs, leagues, federations, players, as well as hundreds of independent content creators, and broadcasters adds close to 200k pieces of editorial and video content per month. Founded in 2008, the company has a global reach – with headquarters in Berlin and regional hubs in London, Singapore and Lisbon – and is deeply embedded in the football ecosystem, with shareholders including top-tier clubs Arsenal, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Juventus, Liverpool, Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain, Real Madrid, Olympique de Marseille, Borussia Dortmund and Tottenham Hotspur, as well as the German FA. OneFootball is available in 12 languages and is the best-rated sports app in the world, based on millions of App Store and Google Play reviews
