Senior Software Engineer (Elite Motorsport)

Senior Software Engineer (Motorsport)

DO YOU WANT TO WORK FOR THE WORLD LEADER IN ELITE SPORTS PERFORMANCE ANALYTICS

Catapult is a world leader in sports performance technology serving over 2900 teams across 40 sports. We improve many of your favorite athletes performances with our wearable tracking technology video and data analysis systems and athlete management products. Our technology offers objective solutions to sport-based challenges and can be found throughout the NFL NHL NBA AFL NRL Premier League Bundesliga La Liga and many more.

In Motorsport Catapults SBG race management and team strategy systems are the technology of choice for elite-level organisers and competitors around the world including in Formula 1 Formula E IndyCar NASCAR WEC/Le Mans and other worldwide endurance racing. Customers include the FIA (in F1 F2 F3 F1 Academy FE and WEC) nine Formula 1 teams (including the 8-time World Champion Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team) the majority of Formula E teams the winners of multiple Le Mans 24-hour races over the last 10 years (Audi Porsche and Toyota) and teams and organisers in both IndyCar and NASCAR.

We have major offices in the UK (London and Leeds) USA (Boston) and Australia (Melbourne) as well as multiple smaller offices around the world.

WE WANT PEOPLE WHO ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT SPORTS AND WANT TO WIN

We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic Senior Software Engineer (Motorsport)to grow our Motorsport development team as we expand our RaceWatch products into new series and tackle new challenges.

Based in London you will be a key player in developing new capabilities in RaceWatch particularly for Endurance racing strategy but also contributing to the entire RaceWatch suite across different racing series.

We believe that our customers deserve the best platform and we are on a mission to maximise and enhance their performance through delivering the highest quality experience. As a Senior Software Engineer you will help us drive our products and processes forward as well as acting as a mentor and providing technical leadership to other team members. You will be able to excel in a fast-paced environment with short project timelines from conception to deployment.

WHAT YOULL DO

• Lead the development of our RaceWatch software for one or more motorsport series.
• Work with product managers and customers to design features and prioritise tasks.
• Identify ways to add innovative new features to the software.
• Lead others to anticipate and meet customer needs.
• Be one of the technical leaders within the team.
• Design build and maintain efficient reusable and reliable code.
• Ensure code quality organization and best practices throughout the development process.
• Lead with a growth mindset encouraging others to share ideas and opinions.
• Maintain and enhance software reliability.

WHAT YOULL NEED

• A passion for Motorsport.
• 5 years working in a fast-paced technical environment delivering software to customers.
• A proven track record of building applications in C/C.
• Experience developing products scaling them and supporting them throughout the entire lifecycle.
• An aptitude for working with complex data.
• Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical staff both internally and when speaking to customers.
• A willingness to go above and beyond for the customer.
• Ability to help cover live motorsport events at weekends on a rotational basis with the rest of the team.
• An ability to multi-task and thrive in a dynamic work environment with changing priorities.

NICE TO HAVE

• Degree in computer science or other scientific or technical subject.
• Prior experience working in motorsport is a strong advantage.
• An understanding of the challenges faced by motorsport officials and teams in managing and participating in events.
• Experience using Catapults RaceWatch software.
• Experience with ticketing and project management platforms such as JIRA or Monday.
• Experience developing Windows applications in Visual Studio.
• Experience developing applications that process video.

WHY CATAPULT

• We have amazing people. We can promise you will work with some of the most ambitious and intelligent people in an exciting industry and you will do some of the best work of your life.
• We encourage our people to have constructive open and honest communication; to make Catapult extraordinary; innovate and create smart solutions; establish a collaborative yet challenging environment to develop our performance and the performance of our customers.
• Our workforce spans more than 20 countries so youll have the opportunity to work across multiple nationalities and cultures.
• We value improvement and development. We are challenging ourselves to continuously grow and become a high-performance company. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and our people are always looking for ways to do things better. There is unlimited opportunity to grow do more and do better.
• We care about you. We offer outstanding paid maternity and paternity leave.

Whether you are interested in sports or not youll have the satisfaction of knowing your work is supporting some of the most successful teams organisations and competitors on the planet! While we have access to many exciting opportunities we also realize that we are here to do a very important job for our customers. As a result we aim to work with purpose and intention. We look for people that fit into our team culture those who actively contribute and individuals who are excited about what they do.

In order to build the future of sports performance we need the brightest talent. If you think you can contribute to the empowering enjoyable and exciting Catapult environment then we invite you to apply.

All offers of employment are subject to Catapults positive prehire check. To find out more please contact the Talent Partner for this role.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1