Job Posting: Pirates Baseball Informatics Software Developer
Position: Software Developer, Baseball Informatics
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Description:
The Developer will design, code, and maintain software solutions that allow Baseball Operations to translate information into actionable insights used by decision makers.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the design and creation of software systems that will be utilized by Baseball Operations staff.
- Makes use of the existing frameworks in use and data assets within Baseball Operations.
- Makes use of Pirates’ standards and industry best practices to implement elegant and high performance code.
- Participate in gathering and documenting requirements for existing and new software systems in Baseball Operations.
- Understand business processes, required outcomes, and decisions that will be impacted by our use of the software you create and maintain.
- Work with other Informatics developers, interns and consultants in the maintenance and extension of the software development frameworks and tools utilized.
- Be capable in both front-end design and coding techniques as well as service oriented back-end development.
- Assist in evaluating software development tools and techniques for use by Baseball Operations.
- Develop and maintain familiarity with baseball metrics and research.
- All other duties as assigned.
Position Requirements:
Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
- A minimum of two (2) years experience developing software
Desired:
- Experience with Angular 2+
- Mobile UI Design in React Native, Xamarin or similar
- Knowledge of SQL, preferably SQL Server and writing stored procedures and functions
- RESTful Web Service Design
To Apply:
To apply, please visit this site and complete the application.
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