Senior Software Engineer, Team Sites

WORK OPTION: Remote 

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a global sports and media organization with the mission to inspire and connect people everywhere through the power of basketball.  Built around five professional sports leagues:  the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League and Basketball Africa League, the NBA has established a major international presence with games and programming available in 214 countries and territories in 60 languages, and merchandise for sale in more than 200 countries and territories on all seven continents.  NBA rosters at the start of the 2023-24 season featured a record 125 international players from 40 countries and territories.  NBA Digital’s assets include NBA TV, NBA.com, the NBA App and NBA League Pass.  The NBA has created one of the largest social media communities in the world, with more than 2.3 billion likes and followers globally across all leagues, team and player platforms.  NBA Cares, the NBA’s global social responsibility platform, partners with renowned community-based organizations around the world to address important social issues in the areas of education, inclusion, youth and family development, and health and wellness. 
 

Group Summary:
The Direct-to-Consumer group at the NBA is responsible for delivering world-class digital experiences to our global audience. This group focuses on enhancing fan engagement through innovative technology solutions, ensuring that every interaction with the NBA's digital properties is seamless, enjoyable, and memorable.

The Platform Architecture Group is responsible for powering these fan facing digital experiences, focused on building innovative and award winning technology for media & platform services, content management & delivery and marketing technology & analytics.

Position Summary:
As a Senior Software Engineer, Team Sites, you will be responsible for managing and contributing to critical software that supports the NBA team web and app digital experiences. This role will directly contribute to the Content Management System that powers the NBA team products, and especially the editorial interface and tooling that allows teams to build custom pages and content. The Senior Software Engineer will also contribute to the APIs and infrastructure that deliver content to our document store and to fans, as well as the microservices that support this process.

As a senior-level role, you will also support and embody best practices of software quality both in your own work and through code review, as well as demonstrate a willingness to engage with new technology and languages that support innovation on our platform.

This role will work cross functionally with representatives from the NBA Core Platform team, Media Services team, Stats Technology team, DevOps and Cybersecurity teams, as well as directly with software engineers at the NBA teams, to ensure the Team Digital Platform meets business and functional requirements.

Major Responsibilities:

• Help develop new features and update existing functionality in the Team Digital Platform content management system
• Build sophisticated editorial interfaces and tools to help Team Site editors publish effective content
• Develop APIs and microservices to support content publishing and content delivery (e.g. content personalization, syndication, etc)
• Work with the technical lead and peers to set technical standards and demonstrate best practices
• Write unit and other automated tests to achieve a high level of software quality
• Collaborate with peers on partner teams to leverage new platform capabilities, such as content APIs, event-driven architecture, etc.
• Mentor and educate junior developers and contractors
• Contribute to local development infrastructure and developer tooling
• Serve as a release lead and approver on software deployments

Required Education/Professional Experience:
•    Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience

Required Skills/Knowledge Attributes:

• Experience with modern idiomatic PHP, including PHP 8 best practices and PHP ecosystem (Composer, Pest /PHPUnit, etc.)
• Knowledge of software architectures and design patterns such as SOLID, domain-driven design, repositories, etc.
• Deep TypeScript expertise, with extensive experience with a JavaScript-based UI framework (React strongly preferred)
• Experience with WordPress content management and block editor (Gutenberg) architecture and development best practices
• Experience building RESTful APIs, and a working familiarity with alternative API technologies such as GraphQL
• Experience with modern databases and document storage technologies (MySQL/RDS, Elasticsearch, MongoDB)
• Familiarity with development infrastructure tooling (Docker, containerization, Kubernetes)
• Optional: Experience with edge and serverless computing technologies (AWS Lambda, Akamai Cloudlets, Akamai Edgeworkers)
• Optional: Experience with modern PHP and/or JavaScript frameworks such as Laravel or Symfony, and/or Next.js or Relay
• Optional: Experience with modern memory-safe languages such as Go, Rust, etc.
   

Salary Range: $140,000 - $165,000 

Job Posting Title: Senior Manager 

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The NBA is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace.  To safeguard our employees and their families, our visitors, and the broader community from COVID-19, and in consideration of recommendations from health authorities and the NBA’s own advisors, any individual working onsite in our New York and New Jersey offices must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The NBA will discuss accommodations for individuals who cannot be vaccinated due to a medical reason or sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance.

About the NBA
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a global sports and media organization with the mission to inspire and connect people everywhere through the power of basketball.  Built around five professional sports leagues:  the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League and Basketball Africa League, the NBA has established a major international presence with games and programming available in 215 countries and territories in more than 50 languages, and merchandise for sale in more than 200 countries and territories on all seven continents.  NBA rosters at the start of the 2021-22 season featured a record 121 international players from 40 countries.  NBA Digital’s assets include NBA TV, NBA.com, the NBA App and NBA League Pass.  The NBA has created one of the largest social media communities in the world, with 2.1 billion likes and followers globally across all league, team, and player platforms.  Through NBA Cares, the league addresses important social issues by working with internationally recognized youth-serving organizations that support education, youth and family development, and health-related causes.