Job Description

👥 Join the TGI Sport Team:

TGI Sport is a tech-led global sports media company that has been trusted by the world’s premium sporting organisations since 1997. With over 15 offices and 500 employees worldwide, we support over 5,000 events through pioneering technology solutions, global media rights expertise and leading sports marketing and talent management knowledge.

Learn more about us here: bit.ly/TGI_Sport

🏆 The TGI Sport Advantage:

TGI Sport is uniquely positioned to bring together technology, creativity, expertise and talent to deliver solutions that set us apart on the global stage. This creates unparalleled opportunities - not just for our partners, but for our people as well.

• Growth of our people: We prioritise individualised career development and progression. Learning and Development at TGI Sport spans in-house training programs and on-the-job learning, ensuring your growth aligns with our success.
• Organisational growth: since 1997 we have consistently expanded. As we grow, so too do the opportunities for our team members throughout the Americas, UK, Europe and Australia.
• Empowering innovation: We empower our team members to push the boundaries and think creatively. By providing the autonomy to innovate, we deliver impactful solutions that benefit our clients, talent, and partners.

🚀 The Opportunity:

We’re seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Backend Engineer to help develop and maintain a backend pipeline that supports a real-time Non-Linear AR system - delivering synchronized augmentation across sports events broadcast on non-linear TV platforms. This role blends backend engineering with developer expertise to ensure seamless synchronization and delivery of augmented content.

🎯 Your Mission:

• Develop and maintain the backend pipeline to monitor, synchronize and manipulate video streams (e.g. SRT & HLS, MySQL resources on the cloud)
• Integrate and manage modules written in C++ and Node.js
• Implement a complex metadata system over AWS, including S3 security access and acceleration
• Design and deploy backend architecture (Node.js) to manage data allocation and pipeline control
• Create and maintain a dashboard to monitor pipeline status and performance

✅ About You:

You’ve built streaming systems that work in the real world. You’re comfortable with production constraints, care about reliability and observability, and enjoy taking ownership of complex pipelines end-to-end - making them robust, testable, and scalable.

📝 Qualifications & Experience:

Essential

• 5+ years’ experience in full stack development with a strong focus on backend and web technologies
• Proficiency in C++, Node.js, and web technologies
• Deep understanding of synchronization techniques and multimedia rendering pipelines (specifically in a web browser environment)
• Experience with database management (particularly MySQL)
• Strong knowledge of cloud solutions, specifically AWS (S3, RDS, Lambdas, etc.)
• Familiarity with video streams (SRT, HLS)
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively; strong communication skills

Desirable

• Experience in real-time video processing and broadcasting
• Knowledge of modern DevOps practices/tools
• Previous experience with sports broadcasting and AR technology

Ready for your next big challenge? Apply now to help us shape the future of backend technology.

TGI Sport is an Equal Opportunity Employer, all applicants will be considered regardless of your race, sexuality, religion, colour, gender identity, medical history, age or parental status.