Backend Engineer, Kitman Labs
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Sports science & performance intelligence platform
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Sports science & performance intelligence platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
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More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To revolutionize how data is used to optimize health and performance.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for people with a strong background or interest in building successful products
- You’ll be happy dealing with systems that involve many moving pieces
- New technologies or approaches to solving problems don’t bother you
- You are detail oriented but also pragmatic and considered in where you spend time and effort
- Experience building APIs or as part of a team building dynamic web applications
- Shown an ability to take on new technologies and languages
- We work mostly in Ruby but this isn’t a prerequisite, we’re more interested in your ability to learn
- Hold yourself and others to a high bar
- Take pride in working on projects through to a successful completion
- Recognise the value of standardised, fully tested code that is delivered in a CI/CD environment
- We heavily utilise Amazon Web Services so experience with AWS or similar is a bonus
- Our platforms are orchestrated using Terraform and some familiarity with infrastructure as code as a pattern is an advantage
What the job involves
- Backend engineers are responsible for building the core data-flows of Kitman Labs products. They do this with a focus on security, privacy, robustness and performance
- The backend engineering team build APIs and data processing pipelines that handle massive amounts of data from sports teams all over the globe. In conjunction with our Data Science team they build and maintain data models which embodies the cutting edge of injury risk prevention technology
- Design, build, and maintain APIs, services and data-stores
- Constantly improve our engineering processes, standards and tooling
- Work with our frontend engineers to build features that users love to use
- Help our data scientists to research and implement the latest data processing techniques and models
- Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
- Contribute to our technical architecture as we grow
Our take
In sports, advancements in wearable and other data-gathering tech have opened the door to improving athlete performance and reducing the risk of injury. Kitman Labs supplies an analytics platform for just these reasons, helping the sports industry to make sense of their data.
Its platform furnishes teams and management with performance, competition and training analytics, as well as injury risk assessments and treatment guidance. The company also operates a team of performance experts to support customers (coming from positions including athletic directors, coaches, scouts and sports scientists).
Following the strategic acquisitions of both The Sports Office and Presagia Sports, Kitman Labs cultivated the industry's largest dataset of talent, performance and medical data. Its platform is used by hundreds of elite teams including members of the NFL and EPL, as well as by military organizations and in the Olympics.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Nov 2021
$52m
SERIES C
Jul 2020
$6m
LATE VC
Total funding: $76.4m
Company benefits
- Excellent Health, Dental, and Vision Benefits Worldwide
- Wellness Perks
- Professional Growth
- Global fully paid maternity, paternity, adoptive, and parents leave
- Flexible Workplace - Fully remote, remote-hybrid, or in person at one of our offices
Company values
- Being Your Best Self - Our joy comes from helping each other collaborate, lead, and grow. We support and unite teams, both internally and externally, to embrace the perpetual pursuit of better
- Collaboration for Growth - It’s key to our success. We learn from each other and collaborate to become better at what we do in each of our domains. We carry this collaboration mindset beyond the doors of Kitman through engaging apprenticeship, mentoring, and internship programs with partners and customers
- Leading with Curiosity - Why we love Kitman: we’re not afraid of the word ‘why’. We ask questions and we genuinely want your answer. We appreciate the insights of our fellow colleagues, our customers, and our partners, and we’re inspired by the leadership required to share new ideas
- Thoughtfully Operating - How we show up for each other is equally as important as the work we produce. Safely giving and receiving feedback, providing coaching where needed, and staying grounded in our goals unlocks our ability to work as one team
Company HQ
Mountjoy, Dublin 1, Ireland
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Leadership
Stephen Smith
(Founder & CEO)Previously a rehabilitation and conditioning coach, before moving on to found Kitman Labs. His master’s thesis investigated the analysis of combined risk factors as predictors of athletic risk factors.
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