(Senior) Software Engineer - Paid Search ad:s (m/f/d)

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

ABOUT US:

Join our division, “Sportradar ad:s”, where we provide data-driven marketing and sponsorship services to the iGaming industry. Our purpose-built tools and services cater to the individual marketing needs of sportsbooks and media publishers worldwide. Imagine working in an environment surrounded by sports data, live play-by-play statistics, virtual sports, microservices, and betting – all while maintaining an agile mindset and a commitment to delivering exceptional value for our customers. We’re passionate about our work and deeply care about our people. If you’re ready for the challenge, join us in growing, innovating, and developing!
The Paid Search team is developing tools that will integrate and analyze data from our clients’ chosen search advertising platforms, such as Google Ads and Microsoft Ads. This will empower our PPC experts to provide tailored guidance on improving account performance. Additionally, we aim to enhance client accounts through direct customisation, allowing us to dynamically update ads with live content from our internal feeds or those provided by clients.
THE CHALLENGE:
As a (Senior) Software Engineer - Paid Search (m/f/d) in the Paid Search team, you will be a core member of the cross-functional product team on the delivery of their roadmap and helping the more junior members of the team develop via mentoring. Working closely with the Product Owner you will have the opportunity to shape the product backlog via ideation and refinement. You will help guide the technical direction of the team, leaning on your experience to shape innovative solutions.

From a technical perspective, our product consists of multiple microservices hosted entirely in a cloud environment with AWS. We employ Terraform used as infrastructure-as-code (IaC), ensuring consistent and efficient environment management. Our backend is predominantly developed with NodeJS & Typescript. We deploy to AWS Lambdas for our APIs, which connect to Amazon DynamoDB for handling mutable data. Additionally, we manage substantial data volumes stored in Amazon S3, which are subsequently crawled and analysed using AWS Glue and Athena. To facilitate communication between our services, we utilise a combination of Amazon SNS and SQS, providing a robust and scalable messaging system. The front-end is built with Vue.js, leveraging PNPM for fast and efficient package management, and Turborepo for orchestrating the monorepo. We work in a trunk-based development setup, promoting collaboration, rapid integration and early feedback to accelerate delivery and maintain high code quality. Our continuous integration and deployments are managed through GitLab CI.
Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute and develop a self-organised, agile software development team.
• Build and maintain advertising technologies, from requirements gathering to developing functional UI.
• Collaborate with team members to ensure code quality, observability, and security in development.
• Engage in a supportive, collaborative team environment and contribute to maintaining a positive culture.
• Apply best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Coach and develop team members by providing feedback and technical guidance

ABOUT YOU:

• 3+ years with web development technologies like TypeScript, especially using Node.js and a Frontend Framework (e.g., Vue.js).
• Experience working in an agile/lean development environment.
• Passion for writing clean, maintainable code and testing.
• Strong communication skills, ownership, and a user-focused mindset.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures (experience with AWS serverless technologies or containers is a plus, but a willingness to learn is essential).
• Knowledge of databases (SQL or NoSQL) and experience working with them.
• Interest in learning new technologies and a proactive approach to skill development.
• Willingness to practice Test-Driven Development (TDD).

OUR OFFER:

• A collaborative environment with colleagues from all over the world (Engineering offices in Europe, Asia and US).
• Ability to shape your own workday and career via a clearly defined professional and personal development plan. 
• Opportunity to work with senior leadership, develop yourself and build your career within an inspiring and fast-growing company and digital sports environment. 
• A vibrant and inclusive community, including Women in Tech and Pride groups which welcome all participants. 
• A company culture that promotes social aspects, sports, physical exercise and fun.
• Innovative and cross-team challenges like ShipIt, office sports tournaments in Darts and Table Tennis and unique beer brewing competitions.
• Competitive salary and benefits (e.g. retirement pension and insurance plan)
• Sportradar takes over the full costs of € 365.- for the Öffi-Ticket (Jahreskarte) for you.
• Hybrid work model. 

While we value the opportunities to work from home, we truly believe that being together, and sharing ideas, opportunities, trials and tribulations with teammates make us stronger and more innovative – individually and as a company. We strengthen the fibers of our Company each and every day, just by being together. For this reason, we operate a hybrid model where we are in the office 3 days a week.  

The minimum monthly salary for this position is according to the Collective Bargaining Agreement, overpayment will be considered depending on qualifications and working experience.

We relocated to our office near the Nordbahnviertel (Praterstenr) in the 2nd district of Vienna in Q1/2024. Due to the top inner-city location, we are excellently connected to the public transport network and the cycle path network and are therefore very easy to reach. In addition, we offer our employees a state-of-the-art infrastructure near the center of the most livable city in the world.  

OUR RECRUITMENT PROCESS: 

• Initial Screening: A quick chat with our Talent Acquisition Partner to understand your background and expectations. 
• Technical: Theoretical Interview: 60 minutes to discuss your technical skills on the theoretical level with the technical team.
• Technical: Coding Interview: 60 minutes of live coding where we do not access the end result but rather the candidate's approach (clean code and thinking process).
• System Design Interview: 60 minutes to solve a high-level problem with certain requirements.
• Final Steps: Receive final feedback while onsite visit might be requested and, if successful, an offer! 

We keep it simple and aim to wrap up the process within 3 weeks.

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! 

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!