Developer - Baseball Systems

Overview

The Toronto Blue Jays are seeking a talented and versatile Python developer to join our growing Research and Development team within Baseball Operations. In this role, you will help to design and build web applications that support users throughout the organization and impacts areas such as player evaluation, scouting, and player development.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to code review, software testing, documentation and maintenance of internal tools and other collaborative software engineering tasks.
• Maintain and continue building our existing applications
• Work closely with the Research & Development team to add new functionality to our existing suite of Python-based web applications.
• Participate in technical decision-making that will shape the next generation of the Blue Jays’ baseball systems.
• Help to design and build new applications to take advantage of new data and video sources, technologies, internal research, or to enable other organizational initiatives.

Required Technical Skills

• Understanding of database development and data architecture principles, strong working knowledge of SQL (especially MS SQL Server or PostgreSQL)
• Experience using Bootstrap and CSS preprocessors with the ability to create front-end views from provided design files is a plus.
• Highly proficient with Python and ORM frameworks such as Django, Flask, Pyramid, SQLAlchemy or similar.
• Experience with foundational front-end web technologies (HTML, CSS and Javascript).
• Professional developer with experience designing and building Python web applications.

Core Skills

• Effective communicator – able to communicate with non-technical users to understand their roles and requirements and proposes appropriate solutions.
• Invested in learning and gaining new skills, both technical and non-technical.
• Attentive to detail – anticipates and identifies issues early, and strives to produce reliable and high-quality work.
• Passion for baseball and interest in statistical and analytics aspects of the game.
• Strong problem-solving skills – finds pragmatic solutions to data and engineering challenges within time or technology constraints.

Beneficial Experience

The following technologies or fields reflect potential examples of projects that might come up and experience with any of them is beneficial but not required:

• Front-end Javascript frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue.
• CSS preprocessors such as SCSS, LESS or Stylus.
• Experience with additional general-purpose programming languages (PHP, Ruby, Java, C# or similar).
• Data visualization using libraries such as D3, Plotly, Three.js, or ggplot.
• Adobe CC applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, XD) or similar.
• Data manipulation, modelling and visualization in R or Python.
• DevOps and CI/CD experience such as Azure DevOps, Github Actions or similar.