Job Description

ABOUT YINZCAM

YinzCam is a tech leader in sports, developing mobile apps, Connected TV apps, and analytics solutions for sports teams, leagues, events, and venues worldwide. With over 180 professional sports clients and more than 100 million app installs globally, we are dedicated to developing technology to connect fans with the live events they love, year-round, 24/7. Our IPTV product has elevated venues like Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, and Allegiant Stadium. Our digital products are used by 200+ professional sports teams and leagues around the world, including clubs and stadiums in the NFL, NBA, MLS, NHL, Liga MX, English Premier League, AFL (Australia), and more. Read more about our story and clients at

https://www.yinzcam.com/

NOTE This is an in-office role in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. This is not a remote/hybrid role.

THE ROLE

As a Backend Developer, you will need to learn the company's backend infrastructure quickly, and then use your skills and abilities to implement and enhance our backend infrastructure and the features and products that use it. You will be working to deliver backend-heavy products and features to sports teams. You will be working with iOS/Android developers as well as UI/UX designers to provide the best experience to sports fans.

We are hiring multiple levels for this position. In general, these are the requirements for each role:

Role Levels:

- Junior: 0–2 years of experience

- Mid-Level: 2–5 years

- Senior: 5+ years

THE REQUIREMENTSThis is a programming-heavy role requiring advanced expertise in Java, C#, and SQL.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
• Expert-level programming and debugging experience with Java and C# (a must)
• Expert-level experience in writing complex SQL queries and using relational databases (a must)
• Expert-level experience in building RESTful APIs using both XML and JSON data formats (a must)
• Experience with building large-scale, complex, production distributed fault-tolerant systems
• Experience with writing and debugging complex, production Java code
• Experience in working with AWS and AWS-related technologies, e.g., DynamoDB, Redshift
• Experience with database fundamentals including working with relational data, semi-structured data, unstructured data, and database schemas
• Experience with distributed systems such as DynamoDB, Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Redshift
• Experience in using Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos
• Track record of troubleshooting problems in complicated, large-scale, distributed systems
• Deep knowledge of distributed-systems algorithms, in the areas of concurrency, scalability, consistency, partitioning, caching, reliability, synchronization, serialization, multi-threading, DHTs, etc.
• Strong networking fundamentals, including knowledge of common network protocols and wire formats (e.g. HTTP) and debugging of network-level issues (e.g. packet captures, proxying)
• Proficiency in asynchronous programming and multithreaded programming.
• Willingness and ability to explore uncharted territory on your own.
• Willingness and ability to work the non-traditional hours of the sports industry.

Requirements

None