Senior Software Engineer - Core Video & Data
Senior Software Engineer building backend APIs, distributed systems, and large-scale data pipelines for Hudl’s Global Sports Library. The role requires strong cloud engineering, architectural leadership, mentoring, and experience with technologies such as C#, GraphQL, MongoDB, Elastic, and AWS.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership by breaking down complex engineering problems, advocating best practices, and guiding engineers while contributing to delivery.
- Design and evolve APIs, distributed systems, and large-scale data pipelines for the Global Sports Library.
- Address scalability, entity resolution, data consistency, and platform architecture challenges.
- Translate requirements into architectural proposals and guide implementation.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and technical coaching.
- Collaborate with leaders across disciplines to plan and deliver product enhancements.
- Participate in Scrum ceremonies and help maintain a strong team culture.
- Focus on outcomes, data-driven decisions, and efficient delivery.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in full-stack engineering.
- Experience with cloud-based systems and services.
- Advocacy for test-driven development (TDD) and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
- Experience creating architectural proposals and coaching engineers through implementation.
- Collaborative, team-first approach and strong mentoring skills.
Nice-to-Haves
- Professional experience with C#, GraphQL, Elastic, MongoDB, and AWS.
- Experience with video encoding and on-demand rendering at scale.
- Interest in sports and familiarity with sports analytics.
- Experience working with hybrid or remote teams.
Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary range: £66,000–£111,000 GBP.
- Eligible for a long-term incentive (LTI) award.
- Bonuses may be awarded based on individual and company performance, at Hudl’s discretion.
- Flexible vacation time, company-wide holidays, and meeting-free days.
- Remote work options.
- Professional development resources and growth opportunities.
- Medical and retirement benefits, depending on location.
- Employee Assistance Program and employee resource groups.
Skills
C#, GraphQL, Elastic, MongoDB, AWS, Distributed Systems, Data Pipelines, APIs, Video Encoding, CI/CD, Test-Driven Development, Scrum
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