Senior Back-end Engineer

About the Position

Senior Back-end Engineer

Paris office

ScorePlay is the AI-powered media infrastructure for sports, built to automate the content operations behind the world's biggest sports organizations. We work with 300+ leagues, competitions, teams, and broadcasters – including Ligue 1 and Premier League clubs, NBA and NFL teams, the Tour de France, the Australian Open, and leading bodies like UEFA and FIBA – helping them turn every moment on and off the field into high-value, structured content. Our platform brings all their media into one place and makes it effortless to find, edit, and share in seconds.

Founded in 2021, we’re a 50-person team based between New York and Paris, growing 2x year over year with 98% retention. We’ve raised $20M+ from top investors including Alexis Ohanian and Harry Stebbing’s 20VC and elite athletes like Kevin Durant, Raphaël Varane, Mario Götze, Nico Rosberg, and Giannis Antetokounmpo.

If you’re passionate about sports and thrive in fast-paced environments - and you want to help shape how the next generation of fans experience sports, you’re in the right place. We’re on track to become the global leader in sports media, and this is definitely the best time to join our adventure.

Responsibilities

• Lead subjects end to end, from design to production, and run what you ship
• Write and defend RFCs when a decision is structural: a new datastore, a message broker, a third-party service
• Co-design features with your product manager and technical leadership, and push back on product decisions when you disagree
• Help the engineers around you level up, through code reviews, pairing, and mentoring

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend experience, with at least 1 year working in Go in production. You know what it takes to keep systems fast and reliable under real load.
• Solid experience with web architectures, event-driven systems, and data-heavy applications. You've designed systems, not only contributed to them, and you can defend your architectural choices and trade-offs.
• Strong ownership: you take subjects from ambiguity to shipped, and you care about what happens after deploy.
• Remote from Europe, with a remote-first culture and regular team gatherings.

Nice to Have

• Startup experience, or time spent on video or media infrastructure. Ingest pipelines, transcoding, live streaming, high traffic, or storage at scale.

We Offer

• The product is technical to its core, and it's what clients pay for. Engineers carry real weight in what gets built and how.
• Real scale, real stakes: 145M+ minutes of video ingested every month, and the systems you design now become the foundations the whole platform builds on for years.
• Your work shows up on match day, used by clubs, leagues, and athletes you might already follow.
• An international team across Europe and the US, with more than 15 nationalities.

We know many people hesitate to apply if they don’t meet every single requirement on a job description. If you’re interested in ScorePlay but not sure you tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you, this could be the start of a great long-term collaboration.