Software Engineer, Fan Identity

About this role

Major League Baseball is looking for a Software Engineer, Fan Identity to build and operate core platforms that power MLB’s business across fan platforms. The Fan Identity Team is responsible for architecture, securing, and managing the digital identities of millions of fans across a massive digital ecosystem (ticketing apps, e-commerce stores, streaming platforms, and ballpark-related apps). This team is also responsible for how fan data is aggregated, stored, and compliant with global privacy laws. We care about security along with high throughput, reliability, performance, and a culture of thoughtful engineering, learning, and mentorship.

You’ll become a key contributor on our team, building and owning production applications and services that power fan platforms and collaborating closely within an agile team to deliver best-in-class solutions. The ideal candidate is a self-motivated engineer with strong experience in application development and a proven ability to learn quickly and deliver high-quality results.

Responsibilities

Develop production applications: Build and maintain services and user interfaces using core technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Queues, 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

Keep learning: Seek feedback, pair program, and grow skills across our stack, including backend, frontend, data, and cloud

Qualifications & Skills

3+ years of professional experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale, full stack systems

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

Core Traits

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 Skills

Cloud Platforms: Hands on experience with Google Cloud Platform

Caching: Knowledge of Redis or Valkey

Asynchronous Messaging: Familiarity with message brokers like ActiveMQ, Kafka, or RabbitMQ

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs): Experience with Fastly, Cloudflare, or Akamai

Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM): Deploying and managing Customer Identity and Access Management platforms

Salary Range: $120,000 - $155,000 (Base Salary) + Bonus

As a candidate for this position, your salary and related aspects of compensation will be contingent upon your work experience, education, skills, and any other factors MLB considers relevant to the hiring decision. In addition to your salary, MLB believes in providing a competitive compensation and benefits package for its employees.

Top MLB Perks & Benefits

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

Why MLB?

Major League Baseball (MLB) is the most historic of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. Employees love working at MLB because of the culture of growth, teamwork, and professionalism. Employees who are most successful at MLB take initiative, know how to identify problems and provide solutions, and always put the Team first. For those ready to step up to the plate and join the major leagues, MLB takes the same approach as teams do with their players: empowering our “workforce athletes” to be at their best by engineering experiences that put employees in the best position to succeed. Major League Baseball is looking for candidates who are passionate about growing America’s pastime to best serve its fans for decades to come.

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