Software Engineer, Baseball Enterprise
ticketscomBoulder, CO
$120,000 - $155,000
Apply now (opens in a new tab)Software Engineer, Baseball Enterprise
L6
ticketscomBoulder, COtoday
$120,000 - $155,000
Major League Baseball is looking for a Software Engineer, Baseball Enterprise to build and operate core platforms that power MLB's business across Clubs and League operations. Our work spans roster and player lifecycle management, broadcast and content operations, high scale APIs for clubs and the amateur ecosystem, on field technology that supports real time game workflows, event operations and logistics, and tooling that supports umpires. We care about reliability, performance, and a culture of thoughtful engineering, learning, and mentorship. You will become a key contributor on our team to build and own production applications and services that power MLB Club and League operations, collaborating closely within an agile team to deliver best in class solutions. The ideal candidate is a self motivated engineer with strong experience in web application development and a proven ability to learn quickly and deliver high-quality results.
Responsibilities:
- Develop production applications: Build and maintain services and user interfaces using core technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and more
- Maintain and debug software: Instrument applications with logs, metrics, and traces; use them to diagnose and resolve production issues.
- Build dashboards and alerts, and participate in a minimally interruptive on call rotation
- Collaborate and communicate: Contribute across the full software development lifecycle planning, requirements gathering, design, development, testing, and maintenance.
- Provide thorough code reviews, seek feedback on your own work, and partner with product owners to ensure a strong user experience and right-sized scope
- Continuously improve quality: Add unit and integration tests, fix bugs, reduce technical debt, and stay current with evolving technologies
- Use AI responsibly: Leverage AI tools such as code assistants, test generators, and documentation summarizers to accelerate work by validating outputs, citing sources when relevant, and always maintaining human review
- Keep learning: Seek feedback, pair program, and grow skills across our stack, including backend, frontend, data, and cloud
- Qualifications & Skills 2+ years of professional experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale, full stack system
- Proficiency in at least one modern language such as Java, Python, TypeScript and Node, or GoDemonstrated proficiency using a modern JavaScript framework
- Hands on experience in Web APIs and Git
- A strong foundation with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and writing simple queries
- Excellent problem solving and communication skills, with a passion for collaborating in a fast-paced, agile environment
- Exposure to containers and cloud concepts, or eagerness to learn quickly
- Core Traits
- Results oriented: You work with your team to clarify ambiguous tasks, design and implement solutions efficiently, and communicate progress, challenges, and blockers effectively
- Technically strong: You have broad and deep technical knowledge, capable of building applications end-to-end from UI to database.
- You understand web application and microservice architectures and know when to apply transactional vs. eventual consistency models
- Learner's mindset: You're always seeking to learn, ask thoughtful questions, and act quickly on feedback
- Collaborative teammate: You communicate clearly and respectfully, foster a supportive team environment, and handle differing opinions with professionalism and opennessAI augmented, not AI-dependent: You use AI tools to assist, not replace, thoughtful engineering and human judgment
- Ownership and accountability: You take pride in your work, feel a deep sense of ownership, and reflect on both successes and setbacks to continually improve
- Preferred SkillsCloud Platforms: Hands on experience with either Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services
- Caching: knowledge of Redis or Valkey
- Asynchronous Messaging: Familiarity with message brokers like ActiveMQ, Kafka, or RabbitMQContent Delivery Networks (CDNs): Experience with Fastly, Cloudflare, or Akamai
- Frontend Development: Exposure to frontend build and package management tools
Salary Range:
$120,000 - $155,000 (Base Salary) + BonusAs a candidate for this position, your salary and related aspects of compensation will be contingent upon your work experience, education, skills, and any other factors MLB considers relevant to the hiring decision. In addition to your salary, MLB believes in providing a competitive compensation and benefits package for its employees. Top MLB Perks & Benefits Competitive Benefits Package Company 401K Contribution Paid Time Off and Holidays Paid Parental LeaveAccess to Free Tickets to Baseball Games & MLB.TVDiscounts at MLB Store | MLBShop.com Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) Onsite/Online Training & Development Programs Tuition Reimbursement Disability Benefits (short term and long term) Life and Accidental Death Insurance Pet Insurance Why MLB?Major League Baseball (MLB) is the most historic of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. Employees love working at MLB because of the culture of growth, teamwork, and professionalism. Employees who are most successful at MLB take initiative, know how to identify problems and provide solutions, and always put the Team first. For those ready to step up to the plate and join the major leagues, MLB takes the same approach as teams do with their players: empowering our "workforce athletes" to be at their best by engineering experiences that put employees in the best position to succeed. Major League Baseball is looking for candidates who are passionate about growing America's pastime to best serve its fans for decades to come. California Residents: Please see our California Recruitment Privacy Policy for more details. Colorado Residents: Colorado based applicants may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information. Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please email us at accommodations@mlb.com. Requests received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response. Are you ready to Step Up to the Plate? Apply below!
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Level
LeadL6
Salary
$120,000 - $155,000
Location
Boulder, CO
Occupation
Software Developers
Industry
Software Publishers
Posted
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