Software Engineer - Backend

# Software Engineer - Backend## Skill

Corner is hiring!## Job Description**Context:**Skill

Corner provides physical and tactical performance data for professional sports teams and leagues.

The **Backend** team builds and maintains the systems that power Skill

Corner's products, working closely with the Product team. The stack is primarily **Python** (Django, Fast

API), **AWS**, **Postgre

SQL**, **Redshift** and **Click

House**.

The team covers services, APIs, schema design, and operations tools. Each developer owns specific domains while contributing across projects.**Responsibilities:**

• Develop and maintain high-impact features for clients and internal teams.
• Drive technical and architectural decisions.
• Ensure overall code quality (tests, best practices, reviews).
• Share your knowledge and mentor junior developers to help them grow.**Example projects*** **Client APIs**: design, maintain, and scale the APIs that deliver data to clients and internal consumers.* **Data ingestion & provider integration**: integrate and reconcile sports data from multiple third-party providers, handle schema design for competition-specific rules, and ensure data consistency across sources.* **Operations tooling**: centralized internal platform for managing matches, line-ups, data validation, and operational workflows used daily by the ops team.* **Multi-sport expansion**: extend the platform to new sports (basketball and beyond) with new data models, APIs, and pipelines adapted to each sport's specificities.* **Service architecture**: design and build backend services as part of an ongoing effort to decompose a monolithic platform into well-scoped, independent services.* **Shared libraries & developer experience**: maintain core Python libraries (utilities, models, HTTP clients) used across the company, and drive code quality improvements (testing, refactoring legacy code, tooling).## Preferred Experience**Desired profile:****Must have**
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Strong expertise in Python and backend development.
• Ability to drive technical decisions and justify them.
• Solid understanding of distributed architectures, databases, and data modeling/schema design.
• Experience with a **Python web framework** (Django, Fast

API, or similar).

• Solution-oriented mindset, eagerness to learn and to share knowledge.**Nice to have**
• Experience with cloud environments (preferably AWS).
• Knowledge of analytical databases (Redshift, Big

Query, Click

House, ...).

• Experience with **data processing libraries** such as pandas or polars.
• Experience with **data quality challenges, such as duplicates, consistency checks, or merging records from multiple sources.**
• Experience with **service-oriented architectures** and splitting monolithic systems.
• Familiarity with **Ia

C tools** (Pulumi, Terraform).

• Interest in sports or sports analytics.
• Your work powers decisions made by top professional clubs and leagues worldwide.
• A multi-sport platform expanding to new sports (basketball, US football), with real technical challenges around scalability and data modeling.
• Small enough to have real ownership and impact, growing fast enough to keep things interesting.
• Position based in Paris (preferred), but open to full remote for highly experienced profiles.## Additional Information
• Contract Type: **Full-Time**
• Location: **Paris*** **Occasional remote authorized**

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