Senior Backend Engineer, Kitman Labs
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Performance Intelligence & Analytics platform
Open for applications
Performance Intelligence & Analytics platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
201-500 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
- Have 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
Desirable
- We heavily utilise Amazon Web Services so experience with AWS or similar is a bonus
- Experience working with AI tools
- Knowledge of machine learning models
What the job involves
- Senior 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 builds 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 embody the cutting edge of injury risk prevention technology
- Design, build, and maintain APIs, services and data-stores
- Possess a deep understanding of what it takes to maintain high standards of software quality, including effective QA processes, writing high-quality code, following best practices, and adhering to established industry standards. Ensure cross team collaboration by working with our frontend engineers to build features that users love to use
- Work with our product team to reliably spec out and refine user stories, enabling them to be broken down and quickly delivered to production
- Confidently debug complex production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
- Be focussed and able to prioritise tasks and not get distracted by unimportant details
- Set direction from a technical architecture point of view on projects and make
- Pragmatic decisions if projects need to be redirected or scaled back
Our take
Thanks to advances in wearable and other data-gathering tech, we’ve seen ‘big data’ balloon to truly vast amounts of the stuff, with some crucial insights available for those who can dig them out. This is true of sports, too. Except that on top of improving athlete performance, data can also help players reduce the risk of injury.
Kitman Labs has developed a performance analysis platform for precisely this purpose, furnishing teams and management with performance, competition, and training analytics, as well as injury risk assessments and treatment guidance. They also have a team of 100+ 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 has created the industry's largest dataset of talent, performance, and medical data for all stages of the athlete lifecycle. The platform is used by over 700 elite teams including the NFL, English Premier League, and Premiership Rugby, as well as military organizations.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Nov 2021
$52m
SERIES C
Jul 2020
$6m
LATE VC
Total funding: $76.6m
Company benefits
- Excellent Health, Dental, and Vision Benefits Worldwide - Wherever possible, we borrow the best practices from one region to benefit the entire company
- Wellness Perk - Use on any activity that brings you mental/physical wellness - from fitness subscriptions to piano lessons, the diversity of requests reflect the different minds among us
- Professional Growth - We’ve built levels to map your growth both in salary/comp, and in career skills
- Global fully paid maternity, paternity, adoptive, and parents leave - 6 months maternity, 6 weeks paternity, up to 6 months adoptive, and 2 weeks parents leave - all fully paid
- Flexible Workplace - Fully remote, remote-hybrid, or in person at one of our offices: we want you to be free to work where and when you are most productive and happy
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
(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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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Kitman Labs
- We know diversity helps us make better decisions, be more innovative, and become better problem solvers. We are incredibly focused on improving our diversity as a company and serving as a contributor to greater diversity within our industry
- Kitman Labs is committed to hiring people with diverse backgrounds. We look to bring to our team more individuals that represent diversity of age, civil or family status, ability, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, military service, and sexual orientation. If you are a differently abled person in the application process, please let us know
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