Staff Software Engineer, Research & Development

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Design, build, and maintain full-stack applications that support Baseball Operations, with an emphasis on responsive and intuitive frontend experiences.

• Define, govern, and evolve the frontend architecture strategy, including patterns, component libraries, and standards that support long-term maintainability.
• Design and develop interactive data visualizations and dashboards that translate complex baseball data into clear, actionable insights for decision-makers.
• Build scalable, automated systems with longevity and maintainability in mind.

• Modernize legacy codebases and frontend interfaces while ensuring continuity of critical systems.
• Establish and continuously improve best practices in software development, including code reviews, testing, continuous integration, and documentation.

• Act as a force multiplier by mentoring senior engineers, conducting design reviews, and developing engineering talent across the team.
• Serve as a technical leader and mentor in frontend and data visualization best practices, while remaining hands-on as an individual contributor.

• Partner with R&D leadership to translate long-term organizational needs into durable technical strategy.

• Collaborate closely with analysts, data scientists, and baseball operations staff to understand data needs and deliver effective visualization solutions.

• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule to address any urgent issues with our software systems.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Do you have experience in Version control systems?, * 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.

• Demonstrated experience owning architecture decisions for multi-system or department-wide platforms.
• Track record of influencing technical direction beyond your immediate team through design docs, mentorship, or cross-functional leadership.
• Ability to evaluate build vs. buy tradeoffs and communicate recommendations to both technical and non-technical leadership.
• Expert-level proficiency in one or more modern frontend framework (e.g. React, Vue, Svelte).
• Experience building data visualizations using libraries such as js, Layer Cake, or Plotly.
• Deep expertise in frontend architecture patterns, with proven experience designing systems used by multiple teams or over multi-year horizons.
• Experience with relational databases and writing complex SQL queries.
• Proven experience maintaining, refactoring, and modernizing legacy codebases.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control (Git).
• Exceptional communication and influence skills including the ability to build consensus among engineers, present technical strategy to leadership, and drive alignment across stakeholders with competing priorities.
• Experience working with sports data is a plus.