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Sportradar is the world's leading sports technology company serving 1,700+ sports federations, media outlets, betting operators, and consumer platforms across 120 countries. You will join the AudioVisual Tribe as a backend software developer, working collaboratively with team members across Poland, Austria, Slovakia, and Norway to develop and maintain high-performance services used by internal teams and external clients.
Your day-to-day work will involve building scalable backend applications using PHP (Symfony) and/or Go, alongside modern technologies including React, TypeScript, MySQL (Aurora), Redis, RabbitMQ, gRPC, REST APIs, GraphQL, Kubernetes, Helm, AWS, Docker, and GitLab CI/CD. You'll work in a Scrum environment, manage tasks in Jira, and maintain documentation in Confluence. The team emphasizes code quality through test-driven development, pair programming, peer code reviews, and best practices. Your code will need to be efficient, reliable, clean, and maintainable to handle high-traffic, demanding performance requirements.
Sportradar offers a collaborative, inclusive environment with flexible working hours and a clearly defined professional development plan. The company has engineering offices across Europe, Asia, and the US, and maintains active communities including Women in Tech and Pride groups. While flexible hours are available, this role is fully office-based to support in-person collaboration, knowledge sharing, fast decision-making, and team connection.
The recruitment process includes an initial screening conversation, a take-home coding assignment, a technical interview covering your submission and system design, a cultural fit interview with senior management, and a final offer stage.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Backend development experience with PHP or Go (2+ years minimum)
- Knowledge of software architecture principles and design patterns
- Understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and APIs (REST, gRPC, GraphQL)
- Hands-on experience with SQL, NoSQL, and queue systems
- Understanding of system monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, New Relic)
- Practice with test-driven development and pair programming
- Familiarity with GitLab CI/CD workflows
NICE TO HAVE:
- Experience with containerization (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS)
- Experience designing and working on highly scalable systems
- JavaScript and React experience (not required)
