Senior Back-end Engineer

ScorePlay is the AI-powered media infrastructure for sports, built to automate the content operations behind the world's biggest sports organizations. We work with 300+ leagues, competitions, teams and broadcasters – including Ligue 1 and Premier League clubs, NBA and NFL teams, the Tour de France, the Australian Open, and leading bodies like UEFA and FIBA – helping them turn every moment on and off the field into high-value, structured content. Our platform brings all their media into one place and makes it effortless to find, edit and share in seconds.

Founded in 2021, we’re a 50-person team based between New York and Paris, growing 2x year over year with 98% retention. We’ve raised $20M+ from top investors including Alexis Ohanian and Harry Stebbing’s 20VC and elite athletes like Kevin Durant, Raphaël Varane, Mario Götze, Nico Rosberg and Giannis Antetokounmpo.

If you’re passionate about sports and thrive in fast-paced environments - and you want to help shape how the next generation of fans experience sports, you’re in the right place. We’re on track to become the global leader in sports media, and this is definitely the best time to join our adventure.

⚙️ The role

ScorePlay is the platform major sports organizations use to manage, search and share their media, from the second it’s captured to the moment it reaches everyone’s screen. Most of the industry still runs on manual work: a photographer uploads thousands of shots after the final whistle, and someone has to tag them, find the good ones, and get them to players, sponsors and press, one file at a time. We automate all of it, and a lot of the architecture needed at scale simply hasn't been built before. That's why we exist.

We're hiring a senior backend engineer to lead technical subjects across the platform. You'd own the technical direction of your squad, which means designing the systems, discussing the roadmap and structural decisions with the Head of Engineering, and shipping features used within weeks by the biggest sports organizations in the world.

🧠 What you'll work on

Our Clients Produce Enormous Amounts Of Media Every Week, And Our Platform Is Where All Of It Lives. Some Of The Backend Problems We Tackle Include

• Letting users search massive amount of media by asking questions in plain language, instead of digging through tags
• Processing video fast enough to matter during a live match
• Automating work that entire teams still do by hand today

Your Day To Day

• Lead subjects end to end, from design to production, and run what you ship
• Write and defend RFCs when a decision is structural: a new datastore, a message broker, a third-party service
• Co-design features with your product manager and the head of Engineering, and push back on product decisions when you disagree
• Help the engineers around you level up, through code reviews, pairing and mentoring

🛠 The stack and how we work

Golang for services. PostgreSQL, Kafka, Temporal for workflows, OpenSearch, Kubernetes, all on AWS. We use AI heavily (but wisely), in the product and in how we work as engineers.

Cross-functional feature teams own their scope from conception to production. Structural decisions go through RFCs. Every week, the whole engineering team gets together to present and debate technical subjects.

🧩 What we're looking for

• 5+ years of backend experience, with at least 1 year working in Go in production
• Solid experience with web architectures, event-driven systems and data-heavy applications. You've designed systems, not only contributed to them
• You demonstrate strong ownership around your work
• Remote from Europe
• Bonus: startup experience, or time spent on video or media infrastructure

🏆 Why ScorePlay

• The product is technical to its core, and it's what clients pay for. Engineers carry real weight in decisions here
• The systems you design now become the foundations the whole platform builds on for years
• Your work shows up on match day, used by clubs, leagues and athletes you might already follow
• An international team across Europe and the US, with more than 15 nationalities

We know many people hesitate to apply if they don’t meet every single requirement on a job description. If you’re interested in ScorePlay but not sure you tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you, this could be the start of a great long-term collaboration.

Compensation Range: €75K - €105K