This is your opportunity to join a fast-paced; action oriented combined Digital Media and Creative team. You will work alongside engineers and designers in our newly formed Digital Media Team to create premiere mobile and web applications for major sports leagues, including MLB, NCAA, and NASCAR. This is a small team of energized individuals who recently shipped the top grossing sports app in the app store in Feb 2014, (NASCAR RaceView) and is now on point to envision and deliver new experiences for major league baseball and NCAA football.
This role will provide senior-level hands-on contributions alongside our team of web, mobile, gaming, and creative leaders. Bringing expertise in mobile and web technologies, your role will be to maintain our existing product-lines (i.e., resolving top customer complaints around audio/video sync in RaceView; implementing new, configurable sponsorship experiences) and help architect new ones (i.e., how would we visualize the path of a baseball and a player in a real-time using HTML 5; how would we architect a gesture-based iTV ‘hit the pitch’ experience integrated with partner SDKs).
Using your expertise in mobile and web architecture, you will create prototypes and products for coaches to use to evaluate players; fans to enjoy; on-air talent to use to tell stories live on TV; teams and analysts to use to evaluate player performance. This could include anything from mobile applications, to touch screen interfaces (on PC and devices), to web-based apps, so well rounded experience across platforms and code-bases is a must.
The person chosen for this role will build and strengthen a broad array of skills, including: analytical, problem solving and mathematical skills, and the design of complex, dynamic software programs suitable for real-time game-like interaction on mobile devices and browsers. Passion for solving the toughest architectural, data streaming, and graphics rendering challenges -- of events happening and data streaming -- in real-time is a must.
This position requires leadership in technical communications. Your direct clients will be both internal and major league digital media operations team members. This role requires you to interact with them both verbally and in writing, explaining implementation details and building confidence in our teams’ technical competency, approach, and execution.
Additionally, as the most senior member of the digital media engineering team, this role requires, at a minimum, mentorship (code reviews, project goal setting, suggesting approaches, helping unblock issues, prioritizing engineering tasks in scrum and planning meetings) of a small group of other senior and junior engineers. The position could include management depending on experience and desire.
As this is a fast-paced sports environment, some on-call evening and weekend work and over-sight is required to support weekend sporting events.