Kognia Sports Intelligence is seeking Python Engineers to help us build and maintain reliable data pipelines, integrations, and internal tools, foster a DataOps mindset at Kognia, and work closely with our product and research teams. You will have an opportunity to make a huge impact while collaborating with talented software engineers, data scientists, football coaches, and more. The salary range is EUR 40.000 - 60.000 annual plus bonus, commensurate with experience. We are open to a variety of experience levels, minimum 1 year in a similar position or 3 years in other engineering roles with relevant responsibilities.
We are a Barcelona-based startup funded by football industry leaders including superstars Xavi Hernández and Iker Casillas. Since opening our office in early 2019 with the founders plus 2 engineers, we have grown to 20+. Our system incorporates data from multiple sources, applying our particular combination of AI and football insight to deliver unique data sets and a product that is both data- and video-driven.
The Operations team is responsible for processing games to generate content and insights. As an engineer on this team, you will help build and maintain internal tools, integrations with data providers, monitoring and alerting systems, and more. In general, you will help automate processes in order to allow us to advance in our journey of scaling from a handful of competitions to dozens.
Key technologies are Python, Postgres, Kafka, Kubernetes, with almost all the day-to-day work in Python -- also React, BigQuery, and dbt could come up depending on the project (of course, we don't expect knowledge of all of these).
We also regularly move individual contributors between teams both "on loan" and on a more permanent basis depending on how priorities, resources, and individual interests evolve over time.
This position is currently mixed remote/office at the discretion of each individual and each team. Some engineering teams come to the office roughly weekly (those who can) although Operations is not currently doing so. Nevertheless, we do prefer candidates in the Barcelona area or Spain more generally for administrative reasons but will consider international applications as well, not more than 4 time zones away.
We welcome your application through this listing, or feel free to contact our CTO directly for any questions: henry.harrison@kogniasports.com
Kognia Sports Intelligence is a Barcelona-based start-up that is redefining how football clubs and federations harness tactical data to improve performance.
Delivered through a single feed, our AI-powered platform provides deep, contextual, tactical insights that can support professional football clubs to elevate player development, scout and recruit player, and integrate within performance analysis processes, from academy through to first-team.
Kognia blends firsthand expertise from the professional game with world-class artificial intelligence. Our proprietary systems automatically detect, analyse and distribute advanced tactical metrics, integrating event and tracking data to give teams a richer, more actionable understanding of the game.
Kognia co-founders Maurici A. Lopez-Feliz (CEO) and Henry Harrison (CTO) bring academic excellence along with Maurici's experience within professional football, notably as Head of Research at the Methodology Department at FC Barcelona. Their shared academic experiences studying ecological physics at the University of Connecticut and respective backgrounds have contributed to shaping one of foundational beliefs at Kognia: that soccer can be understood through a principled, systemic lens and our technology can make those AI-driven insights accessible and actionable at scale.
