Job Posting: Detroit Tigers Baseball Operations Software Engineer

Position: Baseball Operations Software Engineer

Location: Detroit, MI

Job Summary:
The Detroit Tigers are currently seeking a Software Engineer. This role will be responsible for development and maintenance of software projects within Baseball Operations. This position will report to the Sr. Software Engineer, Baseball Operations.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Perform general development and maintenance tasks for the upkeep of internally developed software products.
  • Use modern software techniques and best practices in all parts of the software life cycle.
  • Support the integration of baseball analysis into the Tigers’ proprietary tools and applications.
  • Assist with the design and development of new software products.
  • Other projects as directed by the Baseball Operations leadership team.

Minimum Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, similar technical field of study or equivalent real-time experience.
  • Demonstrated knowledge in developing in a Web-based object-oriented product environment.
  • Demonstrated knowledge in working with medium-to-large scale relational databases.
  • Ability to work in all phases of the product lifecycle, from requirements gathering to design, testing, and implementation.
  • Ability to learn new technologies and techniques as necessary.
  • Familiarity with the sport of baseball, baseball-specific data, modern statistical techniques, and sabermetric analysis.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Experience with data pipelines, data warehousing, or data engineering, especially using SQL Server
  • Experience developing web APIs using Java or C#/.NET
  • Experience with JavaScript visualization tools such as D3.js or Plotly.js
  • Experience with cloud services and/or container technologies

To Apply:
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