Software Engineer
major league baseballNew York (NY)
$120,000 - $155,000
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Posted 47 days ago
major league baseballNew York (NY)
SENIORITY
Lead
SALARY
$120,000 - $155,000
About the role
Major League Baseball is looking for a Software Engineer to join a cross-platform engineering group that ships our Mobile MLB App and MLB.TV Connected TV experience focused on Streaming and Subscriptions. You will work in small, outcome-driven squads that rotate focus based on business priorities. Success means shipping reliable, high-quality user experiences while keeping platform parity with our other CTV stacks and aligning with our shared design system with other feature delivery teams. You will collaborate closely with product, design, QA, and partner teams across the organization. This position can be based out of our Boulder, Colorado or New York City office locations. Please be sure to select the appropriate office for which you wish to apply in the application.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, test, and ship features on multiple surfaces with emphasis on media playback and subscription flows
- Partner with engineers on other platforms to deliver consistent behavior and shared contracts (APIs, analytics, entitlements, UX rules)
- Contribute to code quality, observability, and release readiness (crash reduction, performance, feature flags, rollback-friendly delivery)
- Participate in squad planning, estimation, and retrospectives; occasionally serve as mission tech lead for a focused initiative
- Integrate with our design library and token-based UI patterns; raise gaps early with design and platform owners
- Review code, mentor peers, and improve engineering practices within the team
- Qualifications & Skills
- Required 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong experience building and shipping iOS applications in production (Swift; UIKit and/or SwiftUI)
- Solid understanding of mobile architecture, networking, state management, and error handling
- Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams (product, design, QA) with clear ownership and communication
- Comfort working in fast release cycles with testing, monitoring, and incremental rollout practices
- Pragmatic approach to tradeoffs: clarity, maintainability, and user impact over perfection
- Strongly preferred
- Experience with tvOS / Apple TV (focus engine, remote interactions, TV-safe UX patterns)
- Background in video streaming (players, playback lifecycle, DRM-adjacent workflows, QoE) and/or subscriptions (purchase, restore, entitlements, paywalls)
- Familiarity with analytics instrumentation and experiment-friendly feature delivery
- Experience adopting or contributing to a shared design system (components, tokens, accessibility standards)
- Exposure to Android / Android TV / Fire TV or willingness to learn cross-platform parity practices
- Strong focus on architectural intent, system design, and code verification guardrails when overseeing AI-generated implementations
- Experience strategically applying AI tools for high-impact engineering tasks, such as generating unit tests, documentation, and managing technical debt/refactoring
Salary Range:
$120,000 - $155,000 (Base Salary) + BonusAs 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 LeaveAccess to Free Tickets to Baseball Games & MLB.TVDiscounts 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. California Residents: Please see our California Recruitment Privacy Policy for more details. Colorado Residents: Colorado based applicants may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information. Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please email us at accommodations@mlb.com. Requests received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response. Are you ready to Step Up to the Plate? Apply below!
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