Senior Software Engineer
PGA TOUR
About the role
The Best Players Need the Best People.
This position is responsible for developing platforms and technology solutions across the Golf Technologies department portfolio — including our competitions platforms, statistics platforms, and data delivery platforms. Working with internal and external partners, the incumbent will design and ship complex features and services, owning multi-month projects with real ambiguity.
The Senior Software Engineer is a senior technical team member with a strong delivery focus. This role translates fuzzy product or operational needs into clear technical plans, contributes deeply on delivered technical solutions, and weighs reliability, cost, security, and delivery speed. The role works with AI tools and technologies on a day-to-day basis to accelerate delivery and build smarter solutions — from AI-assisted development to incorporating AI/ML capabilities into our platforms. The Senior Software Engineer contributes to technical decisions in design reviews, ensures work items are developed against current standards and best practices, and ensures our applications are future-proofed for further features. The role provides technical support to the Director Software Engineering and VP of Engineering.
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, or equivalent experience
Minimum 7 years of work experience in modern software development practices
Minimum 7 years reviewing product and/or business requirements and providing technical feedback
Minimum 6 years delivering quantifiable business results
Designs and ships complex features and services with strong system design skills within a team’s domain
Sets technical direction for a project, weighing reliability, cost, security, and delivery speed
Cloud development experience, preferably in AWS
Works with AI tools and technologies (e.g., AI-assisted development, LLMs, or AI/ML-driven features) to deliver solutions; hands-on experience is ideal
Gives high-quality code reviews and raises the team’s quality bar
Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships across multiple teams and at varying levels throughout the organization
Knowledge of multiple functional areas such as Engineering, Content Development, UX/UI, Video and Fan/Customer Support
Familiarity with software development life-cycle methodologies such as SCRUM and Agile
Strong problem-solving, organizational, and analytical skills with high attention to detail
Strong writing and communication skills
Experience working with live data in industries like banking, retail, or medical records
Experience in search engine optimization and accessibility standards
Sports background/knowledge is preferred but not required
RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES
Owns multi-month projects with real ambiguity; impact is visible at the team and stakeholder level
Contributes to technical decisions in design reviews as a senior technical resource on projects
Leverages AI tools and technologies day-to-day to accelerate development and deliver higher-quality solutions
Coaches mid-level engineers and mentors senior associates
Trusted to represent the team in cross-functional discussions
Actively contributes to building team culture and norms
Writes proposals and design docs that drive decisions; comfortable presenting to engineering and product partners
Builds trust with non-engineering stakeholders; surfaces risks and trade-offs honestly
Provide input and thoughts for architectural review of the PGA TOUR digital roadmap
Provide technical feasibility of items in the product backlog
Works collaboratively with the project management team to develop product objectives and define scope
Partners with vendors on the user experience and implementation/support of digital products
Collaborates with support staff to troubleshoot issues
Performs relevant or necessary on-going system configurations and operational tasks to support the product/platform
Special Projects or other duties as assigned
Responsibilities
- Own ambiguous, multi-month software projects with visible team and stakeholder impact
- Design and deliver complex features, services, and platform solutions
- Contribute to technical and architectural decisions, balancing reliability, cost, security, and delivery speed
- Use AI tools and technologies to accelerate development and improve solutions
- Coach and mentor engineers and represent the team in cross-functional discussions
- Write proposals and design documents and present recommendations to engineering and product partners
- Assess technical feasibility, help define product scope, and partner with vendors and project management
- Support platform operations, configurations, troubleshooting, and ongoing system needs
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, or equivalent experience
- At least 7 years of experience in modern software development practices
- At least 7 years reviewing product or business requirements and providing technical feedback
- At least 6 years delivering quantifiable business results
- Strong system design skills and experience shipping complex features and services
- Cloud development experience, preferably with AWS
- Experience with AI tools or technologies; hands-on experience with AI-assisted development, LLMs, or AI/ML features is ideal
- Strong code review, communication, problem-solving, organizational, and analytical skills
Skills mentioned
About PGA TOUR
The PGA Tour’s mission is to deliver the world’s most compelling professional golf competition, featuring the sport’s greatest players, for fans, partners and communities. The PGA Tour, headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, co-sanctions events on the PGA Tour, PGA Tour Champions, Korn Ferry Tour, PGA Tour Americas and administers PGA Tour Q-School presented by Korn Ferry and PGA Tour University. PGA Tour members represent the world’s best players, hailing from 26 countries and territories. Showcasing the biggest moments in the sport with history and legacy on the line, the PGA Tour operates PGA Tour Studios–a state-of-the-art production studio redefining golf content for fans worldwide—and has long-term domestic distribution partnerships for broadcast coverage on CBS, NBC and Golf Channel, with video streaming service on ESPN+ and additional coverage on multiple Free Ad-Supported Television (FAST) channels. Internationally, the PGA TOUR Studios-produced World Feed is available across 200+ countries and territories in 30 languages via 35 broadcast and digital partners. To date, events across all Tours have generated more than $4 billion in charitable giving. Fans can follow the PGA Tour at PGATOUR.COM, on the app and in multiple languages across their favorite social media pages.
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