Senior Software Engineer, Data

Sorare is at the intersection of sports, gaming, and NFT collectibles. Through tradable digital cards, Sorare is designing a collective fantasy sports experience where you can manage your favorite players, hone your passion to earn prizes, and be part of a thriving community.

Anyone, anywhere, can connect with the game on Sorare. The company’s mission is to build the game within the game and to give fans, players and clubs the platform to celebrate, share, and own your game.

If you want to know about the requirements for this role, read on for all the relevant information.

Founded in 2018, Sorare has seen tremendous growth. The platform has a card sales volume of over $400M since January 2021 (up from $8M in sales in 2020) and now has exclusive partnerships with over 250 football (soccer) clubs, the MLB & MLBPA, and the NBA & NBPA.

Sorare is trusted by a world-class team of investors including Softbank, Benchmark, Accel Partners, athletes such as Serena Williams and Kylian Mbappé, and key tech investors such as Alexis Ohanian - all who believe in the future of integrating NFTs with Gameplay.

We are looking for Senior+ Data Engineers to join our growing Engineering team.

It’s an exciting time to join Sorare as we scale our product, engineering & marketing organizations. As we work on expanding to more sports as well as scaling our current game, building the right data foundations is a company top priority.

As a Data Engineer, you will be responsible for the strategy and growth of our data infrastructure. The core competencies of this role include building and supervising our data platform, managing and organizing our data, looking for trends and inconsistencies that impact business & product goals as well as continuous improvement.

Be ready, things move quickly at Sorare as we work toward building a unique and category-leading game!

You don’t need to be a sport expert, a gaming addict or crypto enthusiast to work with us. We're looking for teammates who like to get things done, work in a fast-paced environment at a hyper-growth company, take ownership and autonomy for their work, and expect to learn a lot along the way.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain our data platform
• Collect, organize, and model large volumes of data
• Develop and automate data flows from ingest to visualization in dashboards and reports
• Design pipelines that generate insights that power business intelligence and product decisions
• Design and document our data taxonomy to ensure consistency across the organization
• Support Data Analysts & Data Scientists with the right tools & data to efficiently take data-driven decisions for their respective org

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in software or data engineering
• Extensive knowledge of database query languages, database design, and internals knowledge of query planning
• Significant professional experience with Python
• Production experience with data platforms and tools such as Airflow, DBT, Kafka, StitchData, and Looker
• Production experience with datastores such as Postgres, Dynamo, RedShift, Snowflake, and BigQuery
• Experience building and operating production systems at scale
• Experience with agile development practices
• Self-sufficient without the need for daily direction from your manager
• Eager to learn and work in an environment with new technologies and paradigms
• Experience working at a B2C or B2B2C (Marketplace) company is a plus
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

The reasonably estimated salary for this role at Sorare ranges from $140,000 - $210,000, plus a competitive equity package.

Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Sorare offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, vision, dental, parental leave, an unlimited vacation policy, 401(k) plan, fitness reimbursements, commuter benefits and contribution to lunch expenses!

• Health Care : Great medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage
• Wellness Benefit : Sorare contributes to employees wellness (gym membership or ClassPass)
• Commuter Benefits : Sorare contributes to the cost of your commute
• Latest Tech : Sorare provides equipment such as monitors, computer, headphones, etc
• At-Home Work Station : Sorare covers the cost of an at home set up
• Lunch : Sorare will contribute to their employees lunch expenses
• Time Off : For US employees, we offer unlimited paid time off in addition to observed company holidays. For French employees, we offer 5 weeks of paid holidays per year in addition to the national holidays

Sorare is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to : race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status or any other basis prohibited by law.

As we are an international company, please note we speak English in the workplace. Please apply for the role with an English CV so we can process your application.

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