Software Engineer, Fan Identity

Major League Baseball is looking for a Software Engineer, Fan Identity to build and operate core platforms that power MLB’s business across fan platforms. The Fan Identity Team is responsible for architecture, securing, and managing the digital identities of millions of fans across a massive digital ecosystem (ticketing apps, e-commerce stores, streaming platforms, and ballpark-related apps). This team is also responsible for how fan data is aggregated, stored, and compliant with global privacy laws. We care about security along with high throughput, reliability, performance, and a culture of thoughtful engineering, learning, and mentorship.

You’ll become a key contributor on our team, building and owning production applications and services that power fan platforms and collaborating closely within an agile team to deliver best-in-class solutions. The ideal candidate is a self-motivated engineer with strong experience in 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, Queues, 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

• Keep learning: Seek feedback, pair program, and grow skills across our stack, including backend, frontend, data, and cloud

Qualifications & Skills

• 3+ years of professional experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale, full stack systems

• Proficiency in at least one modern language such as Java, Python, TypeScript and Node, or Go

• Demonstrated 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