Senior Software Engineer, Data

PlayOn! Sports

Senior Software Engineer designing and building data services and APIs for PlayOn's high school sports ecosystem. Collaborating with teams to enhance data reliability and performance.

Posted 5/11/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudKafkaPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and operate data services and APIs used by application teams.
Partner with Data Platform engineers to translate event streams and pipelines into application-ready interfaces.
Own technical design for major features, including API shape, data contracts, versioning, and backward compatibility.
Build in Python and SQL across event-driven architectures.
Collaborate with application teams to define integration patterns and service expectations.
Improve observability, correctness, and operational maturity of data products.
Optimize platform performance and cloud cost efficiency.
Collaborate with the Data Platform team on pipeline contracts and data availability.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience building production software systems, ideally including data services or platform APIs.
Strong Python skills — production-grade, testable, maintainable code.
Strong SQL skills and comfort working with large analytical datasets.
Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming systems (Kafka, Flink, or equivalent).
Experience designing and operating REST APIs consumed by application teams.
Comfort taking technical ownership — driving design decisions, not just implementing them.
Familiarity with AI-augmented development tools (Claude, Codex) as part of a modern engineering workflow.
Preferred Experience
Experience with Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouses.
Background in data modeling for analytical or operational use cases.
ML engineering basics — feature pipelines, model-adjacent data services.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Multiple medical insurance plans to choose from
Dental, vision life and disability insurance
Employee Emergency Fund
Company equity (stock options)
Open PTO policy
401K plan with company match
Hybrid/flexible work environment

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonSQLevent-driven architecturesstreaming systemsREST APIsdata modelingML engineeringfeature pipelinesdata servicescloud cost efficiency

Soft Skills

technical ownershipcollaborationdesign decisionsobservabilitycorrectnessoperational maturity