Application Developer

St. Louis Cardinals - Saint Louis, MO

Full-time - Mid Level

Saint Louis, MO

Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

About the position

The Application Developer will design, develop, and maintain baseball-related applications for the St. Louis Cardinals. This role involves collaboration with developers, analysts, systems engineers, and Baseball Operations staff to ensure high-quality data, analytics, and visualizations are accessible to front office members, scouts, coaches, trainers, and players. The ideal candidate should be detail-oriented, enjoy collaboration, and have a strong interest in baseball.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain baseball-related applications.
• Collaborate with developers, analysts, and Baseball Operations staff.
• Ensure high-quality data and analytics are accessible to users.
• Build and support applications for player information and performance.
• Create and maintain intuitive interfaces for users.
• Investigate and evaluate new technologies for application development.
• Communicate effectively with Baseball Operations staff for feedback and training.
• Test and make adjustments to applications developed by the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of two years of web development experience.
• Experience with web development frameworks such as Angular, React, or Vue.js.
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with version control systems like Git.
• Experience interfacing with relational databases.
• Experience designing and consuming APIs.
• Design and development of user interfaces and backend services.

Nice-to-haves

• Hands-on experience developing frontend applications using Angular and NestJS in Typescript.
• Interest in building reusable UI components.
• Proficiency in designing intuitive and visually appealing user interfaces (UI).
• Interest in creating data visualizations using frameworks such as d3.js and Three.js.
• Experience with Javascript testing methodologies and tools.
• General knowledge of current MLB analytics, news, markets, trends.