Senior Software Engineer (Golang)

About this role

<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Location: Boston, MA | Hybrid, 3 days per week in our Boston office</strong></span></p> <h2><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Build the technology behind elite sporting performance.</span></h2> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">At Catapult, we are building the future of sports performance technology, with a mission to Unleash the Potential of every athlete and team on earth.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Since 2006, our technology has helped shape the world of sports performance software, science and data. Today, our solutions are used by more than 5,000 teams around the world, including organisations across the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLS, EPL, AFL, NRL, NCAA and many more.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Our technology brings together wearable data, digital video and athlete information to help coaches, sports scientists, performance staff and athletes understand what is happening, make better decisions and improve performance.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with strong Golang experience to join our engineering team in Boston and help build the next generation of our cloud platform.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is a hands-on engineering role where you will work with Golang, distributed systems, AWS, APIs and data to build scalable services used by some of the world's leading sporting organisations.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you enjoy solving complex engineering problems, taking ownership of systems and seeing your work have a real impact, this is an opportunity to do that while working alongside a great engineering team in Boston.</span></p> <h2>&nbsp;</h2> <h2><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The opportunity</strong></span></h2> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">You will play a key role in planning, designing, building and testing features for our next-generation cloud platform.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Our platform combines digital video, wearable data and athlete information to provide insights and analytics to coaches, support staff, sports scientists and athletes. The systems you build will help customers make informed decisions about athlete health, readiness and performance.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Golang is essential to this role. You will design, build and maintain production-grade Go services as part of a growing backend platform.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">You will have ownership across the development lifecycle, from understanding the problem and contributing to technical design through to implementation, testing, deployment and ongoing improvement.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">You will work on a range of engineering challenges across distributed services, APIs, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, authentication, authorisation, entitlements and licensing.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We are looking for someone who enjoys getting into the detail, is comfortable making technical decisions and wants to have a meaningful influence on both the software we build and how we build it.</span></p> <h2>&nbsp;</h2> <h2><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What you'll do</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Design, build and maintain scalable, reliable and maintainable services in Golang</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Contribute to the architecture and technical direction of our cloud platform</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Take ownership of services and features from planning and design through to production</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Solve complex engineering problems across distributed systems, APIs, data and cloud infrastructure</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Help drive code quality, engineering standards and best practices across the development lifecycle</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Participate in technical design discussions, architecture reviews and code reviews</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Contribute to our test strategy and write high-quality automated tests</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Improve automation and engineering processes to support reliable and efficient delivery</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica