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NBA Properties Inc. is seeking a Full Stack Engineer to build a centralized, role-aware knowledge platform for NBA partner organizations. The role delivers end-to-end product features, Azure-based services, and AI-powered search and analytics capabilities for team business platforms. Responsibilities: - Design, build, and ship features end to end — Nuxt-based interfaces, Python backend services deployed as Azure services, REST APIs, and the data models beneath them - Build search, tagging, and content discovery, including role-aware views that show each organization only what it should see - Write and optimize SQL across the data ecosystem; build connectors and migration pipelines that move an enterprise document library into a structured, tagged repository at volume - Build AI semantic layer on the Azure AI platform — retrieval-augmented search and natural-language querying using Azure AI Search and Azure OpenAI models - Design the ingestion path that makes content retrievable: chunking, embedding, security trimming, and index maintenance - Drive enablement of business skills, advanced analytics modeling, and fan activation tools within team business platforms - Share ownership of Azure environments, CI/CD, monitoring, and enterprise identity integration with the engineering team - Work to engineering team standards — Git and code review, automated testing, containerized local development — and document features, data flows, and inherited configuration as you go - Partner with product management and communicate clearly with non-technical colleagues across marketing, business operations, and analytics Must Have: - Bachelor's degree, or equivalent practical experience - Demonstrated experience shipping production web applications as part of an engineering team, including both user-facing interfaces and the services behind them - Demonstrated experience building and running applications on Microsoft Azure, including at least one production workload using Azure AI services - Hands-on experience with the Azure AI platform — Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Search, and Azure AI Foundry — used to build a retrieval-augmented or natural-language application that real users depend on. Depth here is a primary requirement of this role - Working command of the surrounding Azure stack: compute, storage, managed databases, secrets, and Microsoft Entra ID as a consumer of it - Proficiency in Python, and strong skills in TypeScript with a modern frontend framework - REST API design, and strong SQL against relational databases and cloud data platforms - Practical understanding of AI application patterns — RAG, embeddings and vector search, semantic layers, tool calling, evaluation, and grounding - Strong Git and collaborative development practice, including CI/CD and written documentation - Ability to work in an unfamiliar codebase and cloud environment: read it, extend it safely, and document what you find - Comfort in an early-stage, start-up-style team — owning work independently and shaping process where none exists yet Preferred: - Experience at a start-up, or on a founding or early-stage product team - Azure certification — Azure AI Engineer Associate, Azure Developer Associate, or equivalent - Experience building a centralized knowledge platform, internal data portal, or enterprise search product, including permission-aware retrieval - Experience with semantic or metric layers over a data warehouse - Experience with Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, SharePoint and Microsoft Graph, or embedding BI content such as Tableau or Power BI with row- and role-level security - Interest in or experience with sports business — ticketing, partnerships, marketing, or analytics Skills: Bachelor's degree, or equivalent practical experience, Demonstrated experience shipping production web applications as part of an engineering team, including both user-facing interfaces and the services behind them, Demonstrated experience building and running applications on Microsoft Azure, including at least one production workload using Azure AI services, Hands-on experience with the Azure AI platform — Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Search, and Azure AI Foundry — used to build a retrieval-augmented or natural-language application that real users depend on. Depth here is a primary requirement of this role, Working command of the surrounding Azure stack: compute, storage, managed databases, secrets, and Microsoft Entra ID as a consumer of it, Proficiency in Python, and strong skills in TypeScript with a modern frontend framework, REST API design, and strong SQL against relational databases and cloud data platforms, Practical understanding of AI application patterns — RAG, embeddings and vector search, semantic layers, tool calling, evaluation, and grounding, Strong Git and collaborative development practice, including CI/CD and written documentation, Ability to work in an unfamiliar codebase and cloud environment: read it, extend it safely, and document what you find, Comfort in an early-stage, start-up-style team — owning work independently and shaping process where none exists yet, Experience at a start-up, or on a founding or early-stage product team, Azure certification — Azure AI Engineer Associate, Azure Developer Associate, or equivalent, Experience building a centralized knowledge platform, internal data portal, or enterprise search product, including permission-aware retrieval, Experience with semantic or metric layers over a data warehouse, Experience with Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, SharePoint and Microsoft Graph, or embedding BI content such as Tableau or Power BI with row- and role-level security, Interest in or experience with sports business — ticketing, partnerships, marketing, or analytics Benefits: Eligible employees may work remotely one day per week., Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the company-sponsored medical benefit program; eligibility may vary by role., Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the company-sponsored short-term disability benefit program; eligibility may vary by role., Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible for company-sponsored mental health coaching/therapy; eligibility may vary by role., Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible for company-sponsored sick time; eligibility may vary by role.