Senior Backend Data Platform Engineer

The CompanySynergy Sports Technology, named by Fast Company as one of the world’s top 10 most innovative companies in sports, seeks talented Senior Backend Data Platform Engineers to join our team on a long term contract basis. This position offers a tremendous opportunity to work with the only company that delivers on-demand professional-level basketball, baseball, and hockey analytics linked to supporting video to nearly 1500 college, professional, and international teams. Our systems are highly complex and contains petabytes of data and video requiring extremely talented engineers to maintain scale and efficiency of its products.As a member of the Synergy team, its engineering team will contribute to the ongoing development of Synergy’s revolutionary online sports data and video delivery solutions. Building applications such as:* Client Analytic Tools* Video Editing and Capture Tools* Data Logging Tools* Operational Game, Data and Video Pipeline Tools* Backend Data and Video PlatformsSynergy’s work environment is geographically distributed, with employees working from home offices. The successful candidate must be comfortable working in a virtual office using online collaboration tools for all communication and interaction in conversational English. Synergy development staff work in a deadline-oriented, demanding, non-standard environment in which personal initiative and a strong work ethic are rewarded. Good communication skills, self-motivation, and the ability to work effectively with minimal supervision are crucial. Nonstandard working hours may be required, as Synergy operates on a 24×7 system for clients, with associated deadlines and requirements. Pay rate is dependent on experience.Information for all Positions:* All Positions will last for roughly a year with some engineers lasting even longer if they are talented, we will keep them for future projects (contracts are renewing every year)* Engineers should be available for phone calls M-F from 7am to 10am Pacific Time zone. There will usually be 1 or 2 phone calls each week that are 30 to 90 minutes each. All other work hours availability is up to the engineer to work when it is a best fit and balance for them to communicate with their team and their personal commitments outside of work.* Working an average of 40 hours per week is expected except in rare or temporary circumstances. Each week can be flexible and up to the engineer as to when and how much they work per day. It is ok to work heavier and lighter weeks if desired based upon the engineer’s preference of when and how to work. But a preference is to average 40 hours per week.* No travel is required