Principal Developer

Department Overview

Members of the Baseball Systems team at the Boston Red Sox are focused on designing, building, and refining the software and data pipelines used within Baseball Operations. These tools and applications are an integral part of the decision-making process, are directly integrated in the workflows of all departments within Baseball Operations, and provide an efficient, consistent, and accessible experience when interacting with our internal data sources and applications.

Position Overview

The Principal Developer, Baseball Systems position will be a member of the baseball operations software development team, and is responsible for the design, development, and support, of all baseball systems. This individual will work closely with members of baseball operations to understand business requirements that drive the analysis, design, and development of quality baseball systems and solutions. This position is responsible for designing and building highly complex front end applications and will collaborate closely with colleagues on the software development team and baseball operations personnel from all departments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as critical resource and subject matter expert in the design and delivery of data-intensive, highly interactive interfaces that serve a broad collection of front office stakeholders.
• Contribute to the advancement of the overall architecture by partnering with domain leads, and establishing best practices and patterns through delivery.
• Participate in key phases of the software development process of critical baseball applications, including requirements gathering, analysis, effort estimation, technical investigation, software design and implementation, testing, bug fixing, and quality assurance.
• Responsible for the design and development of complex web-based user interfaces, web services, back-end logic, and other aspects of web applications.
• Actively participate with other software developers in design reviews, code reviews, and other best practices.
• Work closely at times with baseball analysts to design and implement solutions to their data needs.
• Respond to and resolve technical problems and issues in a timely manner.
• Identify and implement creative solutions for technical challenges.

Competencies

• Aptitude and ability to apply academic or applied experience in software development or data engineering related field.
• An understanding of frontend and backend development and proficiency with modern databases and programming languages.
• Ability to pick up quickly and think both creatively and critically to solve problems.
• A solid understanding of contemporary baseball and/or sports analysis and development practices.
• A team-player that collaborates effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Additional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of deep experience building web applications in Angular, and experience developing with Typescript, CSS/Tailwind, GraphQL, and other modern development approaches.
• Experience with relational database design and development in SQL Server, Snowflake, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or similar technologies, is required.
• Experience building front-end visualizations using Three.js, D3, chart.js, or similar, is a plus.
• Experience developing with cloud technologies from Azure, GCP, or AWS are a plus.
• Experience integrating systems and data using third-party APIs and services are a plus.
• Ability to work autonomously and as a team in a fast paced environment.
• High level of attention to detail with the ability to multi-task effectively.
• Comfortable working remotely when required and using Zoom, Teams, Slack, Trello, and other tools to communicate with all team members.
• High degree of professionalism and ability to maintain confidential information.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.

In addition to the above requirements, all roles within Baseball Operations are expected to effectively demonstrate our universal competencies related to problem solving, teamwork, clarity of communication, and time management, along with embodying our culture of honesty, humility, relentlessness, and commitment to DEIB.