Software Engineer

Major League Baseball (MLB) is hiring a Software Engineer, Baseball Enterprise to build and operate production applications and services supporting Club and League operations. The role contributes across the software development lifecycle, maintains reliable software, and collaborates with an agile team to deliver solutions. Responsibilities: - Develop production applications: Build and maintain services and user interfaces using core technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and more - Maintain and debug software: Instrument applications with logs, metrics, and traces; use them to diagnose and resolve production issues. Build dashboards and alerts, and participate in a minimally interruptive on call rotation - Collaborate and communicate: Contribute across the full software development lifecycle planning, requirements gathering, design, development, testing, and maintenance. Provide thorough code reviews, seek feedback on your own work, and partner with product owners to ensure a strong user experience and right-sized scope - Continuously improve quality: Add unit and integration tests, fix bugs, reduce technical debt, and stay current with evolving technologies - Use AI responsibly: Leverage AI tools such as code assistants, test generators, and documentation summarizers to accelerate work by validating outputs, citing sources when relevant, and always maintaining human review - Keep learning: Seek feedback, pair program, and grow skills across our stack, including backend, frontend, data, and cloud Must Have: - 2+ years of professional experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale, full stack system - Proficiency in at least one modern language such as Java, Python, TypeScript and Node, or Go - Demonstrated proficiency using a modern JavaScript framework - Hands on experience in Web APIs and Git - A strong foundation with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and writing simple queries - Excellent problem solving and communication skills, with a passion for collaborating in a fast-paced, agile environment - Exposure to containers and cloud concepts, or eagerness to learn quickly - Results oriented: You work with your team to clarify ambiguous tasks, design and implement solutions efficiently, and communicate progress, challenges, and blockers effectively - Technically strong: You have broad and deep technical knowledge, capable of building applications end-to-end from UI to database. You understand web application and microservice architectures and know when to apply transactional vs. eventual consistency models - Learner's mindset: You're always seeking to learn, ask thoughtful questions, and act quickly on feedback - Collaborative teammate: You communicate clearly and respectfully, foster a supportive team environment, and handle differing opinions with professionalism and openness - AI augmented, not AI-dependent: You use AI tools to assist, not replace, thoughtful engineering and human judgment - Ownership and accountability: You take pride in your work, feel a deep sense of ownership, and reflect on both successes and setbacks to continually improve Preferred: - Hands on experience with either Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services - knowledge of Redis or Valkey - Familiarity with message brokers like ActiveMQ, Kafka, or RabbitMQ - Experience with Fastly, Cloudflare, or Akamai - Exposure to frontend build and package management tools Skills: 2+ years of professional experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale, full stack system, Proficiency in at least one modern language such as Java, Python, TypeScript and Node, or Go, Demonstrated proficiency using a modern JavaScript framework, Hands on experience in Web APIs and Git, A strong foundation with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and writing simple queries, Excellent problem solving and communication skills, with a passion for collaborating in a fast-paced, agile environment, Exposure to containers and cloud concepts, or eagerness to learn quickly, Results oriented: You work with your team to clarify ambiguous tasks, design and implement solutions efficiently, and communicate progress, challenges, and blockers effectively, Technically strong: You have broad and deep technical knowledge, capable of building applications end-to-end from UI to database. You understand web application and microservice architectures and know when to apply transactional vs. eventual consistency models, Learner's mindset: You're always seeking to learn, ask thoughtful questions, and act quickly on feedback, Collaborative teammate: You communicate clearly and respectfully, foster a supportive team environment, and handle differing opinions with professionalism and openness, AI augmented, not AI-dependent: You use AI tools to assist, not replace, thoughtful engineering and human judgment, Ownership and accountability: You take pride in your work, feel a deep sense of ownership, and reflect on both successes and setbacks to continually improve, Hands on experience with either Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services, Knowledge of Redis or Valkey, Familiarity with message brokers like ActiveMQ, Kafka, or RabbitMQ, Experience with Fastly, Cloudflare, or Akamai, Exposure to frontend build and package management tools Benefits: Bonus, Competitive Benefits Package, Company 401K Contribution, Paid Time Off and Holidays, Paid Parental Leave, Access to Free Tickets to Baseball Games & MLB.TV, Discounts at MLB Store | MLBShop.com, Employee Assistance Programs (EAP), Onsite/Online Training & Development Programs, Tuition Reimbursement, Disability Benefits (short term and long term), Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Pet Insurance