Sports Illustrated Play

Overview:

Welcome to the world of youth & amateur sports. In the US alone, 38 million kids play organized sports, and 2/3 of players say it is most important thing they do. It is where every major athlete starts their career, and sports provides some of the most learning, bonding, and memorable moments between players, families, and friends. Sports Illustrated Play is at the heartbeat of this movement.

Sports Illustrated Play is a Sports Technology company that has a simple yet ambitious goal: to serve the vast market of amateur and youth sports leveraging innovative technology and the Sports Illustrated Brand. As a stand-alone subsidiary of Time Inc., one of the country’s largest and most iconic media companies, Sports Illustrated Play is a rare blend of a nimble, fast-paced, entrepreneurial venture with the support and reach of its affiliation with a major company.

What’s in it for you:

As a part of our team, you will be building a new digital platform for one of the world's most recognized sports brands, Sports Illustrated. What you build will be used by tens of millions of people every day, making a real impact on their lives. This is what we as a team have signed up for. This is why we are here!

What you will be doing:

• Design and develop native, consumer-facing applications as part of a highly technical team
• Collaborate with product and design teams to create best-of-breed applications
• Use best practices to deliver high quality code (document code, unit tests, performance tests, security of data)
• Work in an iterative manner to produce results quickly and keep a feedback loop going with the product team

Big pluses:

• Work on products that will make a real difference
• The product you are building will be used by friends, family, and neighbors
• A chance to innovate and solve some of the most fundamental coding and computer science problems that come with real-time large scale systems
• Working with a fast-paced development team that is focused on pushing through hurdles and getting our code into the hands of users
• The backing and launch support of Time Inc. and Sports Illustrated

Perks:

• Flexibility in pretty much everything
• Competitive compensation package
• Small company mentality but a large company’s benefits plan
• Great people, great products, great brand, great place to work Location: We have development centers in New York (NYC and Saratoga), the San Francisco Bay area and in Canada (Oshawa). We are open to working remotely, or shoulder-to-shoulder in one of our offices.