Senior Back-end Engineer
ScorePlay Inc.Visit ScorePlay Inc. website
ScorePlay Inc. provides media-asset management and distribution software to sports organizations.
New York, NY, US
About ScorePlay Inc.
ScorePlay Inc. operates scoreplay.io, a sports-media SaaS platform used by leagues, clubs, and competitions to manage, distribute, and activate media assets.
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About the Role
Join ScorePlay's Video Production squad to own backend services powering video processing and media automation. Design and maintain Go services, APIs, and data pipelines; optimize databases; manage AWS infrastructure; ensure performance and reliability; collaborate across teams; and contribute through testing, code reviews, mentoring, and technical leadership.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend experience, including at least 1 year working with Go in production.
- Comfort working in fast-moving environments with evolving priorities.
- Solid understanding of software design principles and API development.
- Strong English communication skills; French is a plus.
- Mindset focused on quality, pragmatism, and delivery.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services, APIs, and data pipelines in Go and related technologies.
- Monitor performance and reliability to ensure scalable, maintainable systems.
- Design and optimize database schemas, queries, and indexing.
- Deploy and manage backend systems on AWS, including EC2, S3, Lambda, and RDS.
- Optimize resources for scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Partner with front-end engineers, designers, and product managers.
- Translate business and product goals into reliable technical solutions.
- Test, debug, and review code for functionality, performance, and resilience.
- Implement unit and integration tests and share best practices.
- Lead through code reviews, mentoring, and technical guidance.
Benefits
- Equity
- Autonomy and ownership
- Career development opportunities
- International and distributed team environment
