Senior Software Engineer, Kitman Labs

• We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to play a pivotal role in the evolution of our reporting and analytics platform
• This position requires a blend of deep technical expertise, strategic vision, and hands-on engineering skills to ensure the successful delivery of this architecture transformation
• Proven Experience in Data-Intensive Systems: Strong track record in designing and building reporting systems, including data pipelines, TSDB/OLAP, or similar architectures
• Expertise in Backend Development: Experience building APIs and services, preferably in Ruby, but open to other languages with the ability to quickly learn new ones
• Data Engineering Knowledge: Familiarity with ETL pipelines, data modelling, and pre-aggregation techniques to handle large datasets
• Analytical Thinking: Ability to debug, optimise, and solve problems across complex systems and services
• CI/CD and Testing: Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines and testing frameworks to ensure the reliable delivery of high-quality software
• Leadership and Collaboration: Experience guiding technical projects, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across teams

Desirable

• This critical project involves rearchitecting our existing system to leverage a modern reporting paradigm and introduce technologies that will allow us to scale reporting to large data sets (300 million data points per customer)
• As a senior engineer, you will play a key role in designing scalable data pipelines, implementing pre-calculation strategies, and enabling dynamic custom reporting capabilities for our clients
• You’ll collaborate with product managers, engineers, data engineers, data scientists and stakeholders to create a robust, high-performing solution that meets our customers’ evolving reporting needs
• Driving Architectural Design: Design, build, and maintain a reporting platform that integrates with high volume database technologies (TSDB/OLAP) and provides custom BI capabilities, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability
• Develop and Optimise Data Pipelines: Create data transformation pipelines to summarise and pre-calculate large volumes of data for efficient querying and reporting
• Ensure High Standards of Quality: Maintain robust testing and CI/CD pipelines, write high-quality and secure code, and implement QA best practices
• Solve Complex Problems: Confidently debug and optimise complex issues across services, data pipelines, and the stack
• Technical Leadership: Provide architectural direction, make pragmatic decisions on technical trade-offs, and mentor team members
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with the product team to define, refine, and deliver user stories that translate into impactful reporting features

• 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

Total funding: $77.4m

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.