- Experience building high-traffic consumer apps with millions of users
- Media, video streaming, sports, live events, or real-time data experience
- Experience with Firebase, Datadog, GraphQL clients, analytics platforms, remote configuration, and experimentation frameworks
- Experience improving app startup, rendering performance, memory usage, networking efficiency, or build performance
- Experience in large shared repositories with many contributors and multiple release trains
- Technical leadership experience, including mentoring, architecture reviews, and cross-team delivery
- Familiarity with responsible GenAI practices, including prompt/context hygiene, AI-assisted test creation, and evaluation of generated code quality
Senior-Level Competencies
- Drives ambiguous product and technical problems toward clear, shippable outcomes
- Makes pragmatic tradeoffs across quality, speed, maintainability, performance, and user impact
- Communicates technical decisions clearly to engineering and non-engineering partners
- Raises team standards through code reviews, design feedback, mentoring, and documentation
- Balances feature delivery with long-term platform health and operational reliability
- Understands the broader codebase and internal tooling deeply enough to make changes safely across module boundaries
- Uses metrics and production signals to guide decisions rather than relying only on intuition
- Treats GenAI as a force multiplier, not a substitute for engineering judgment, ownership, or accountability
Salary Range: $150,000 - $185,000 (Base Salary) + Bonus
As 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 Leave
- Access to Free Tickets to Baseball Games & MLB.TV
- Discounts 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.
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