Database Architect (Full Stack) - KinaTrax

As a Database Architect, you will join the KinaTrax product development team to enhance data solutions for biomechanics/motion capture datasets across various sports. Your role involves developing data architecture processes, optimizing server load balancing, and ensuring secure, efficient data storage. You will also contribute to back-end and front-end tasks, including hardware/software interfacing, cloud computing, and client-facing data visualization tools, aiming to revolutionize athlete performance data globally.

Must Have

• Develop and optimize databases for large biomechanics datasets.
• Develop client-facing API solutions for internal and client use.
• Optimize server load balancing for high-speed data egress.
• Optimize data storage, indexing, and retention strategies.
• Develop data-driven solutions for secure company information storage.
• Develop solutions to improve internal efficiency and data sharing speeds.
• Assist in developing new software applications, especially web reporting.
• Improve or implement UI/UX concepts in client-facing tools.
• Improve or implement hardware/software interfaces.
• Expertise in Ruby (Rails), JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and MySQL.
• Proficiency in cloud storage and computing platforms (AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, Linux).
• Proficiency in developing RESTful API solutions.
• Experience using Git for code collaboration.
• Proven ability to work in a team setting.
• Experience using coding concepts for optimizing performance and memory efficiency.

Good to Have

• Experience in programming languages like JavaScript (React, Node.js), Python, and C++.
• Experience with motion capture technology and data analysis tools.
• Passion for sports and athlete performance metrics.

About Us:

KinaTrax’s mission is to provide professional and collegiate teams with game-changing insights about their most valuable asset: their athletes. We deliver research-grade markerless motion capture technology that allows teams to collect in-game biomechanical performance data on their athletes. KinaTrax camera systems are currently deployed in over 50 stadiums & labs across MLB, MiLB, & NCAA organizations – and expanding rapidly. Our comprehensive data capture & analysis tools are operationalized for daily use by players, GMs, coaches, trainers, medical staff, and beyond. As the market leader in Major League Baseball, KinaTrax has established itself as a foundational part of the teams’ day-to-day strategy and decision-making machine. But we aren’t finished. We are constantly innovating and looking to recruit talented teammates to help us continue to revolutionize this space. Your contributions will focus on bringing the next generation of athlete performance data across a variety of sports to teams worldwide.

Job Summary:

As a database architect, you will work alongside the larger KinaTrax product development team with a global focus on the continued development of tools aimed at a consistent, high-quality, end-to-end data solution for both internal and client-facing purposes. You will be tasked with developing data architecture processes to be used for large-scale biomechanics/motion capture datasets across a variety of sports platforms. You will also be charged with further development of back-end and front-end tasks, including but not limited to hardware/software interfacing, cloud computing, and client-facing data visualization tools.

Key Responsibilities:

• Continued development of database(s) for all sport platforms to efficiently store and navigate large biomechanics datasets.
• Continued development of client-facing API solutions, establishing database access for internal and client use cases.
• Optimization of server load balancing techniques with the aim of allowing for high-speed data egress alongside a continuously growing client base.
• Optimize data storage, indexing, and retention strategies to ensure cost-efficient and high-performance data access.
• Develop data-driven solutions to ensure company information is stored securely.
• Develop solutions to improve internal efficiency, aimed at improving data delivery and data sharing speeds for client purposes.
• Assist in the development of new software applications, with a priority on the development of web reporting applications for additional sports (i.e. NBA, NHL).
• Improve or implement UI/UX concepts within pre-existing or future client-facing tools used for data collection, visualization, and/or interpretation purposes.
• Improve or implement hardware/software interfaces within hardware solutions already in use, or future hardware solutions, determined based on company need and/or client feedback.

Qualifications/Experience:

• Demonstrated expertise in programming languages, including Ruby (Rails), JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and MySQL.
• Proficient in using cloud storage and computing platforms (i.e. AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, Linux).
• Proficient in developing RESTful API solutions.
• Experience in programming languages, including JavaScript (React, Node.js), Python, and C++, is a plus.
• Experience using coding concepts aimed at optimizing performance and memory efficiency.
• Experience using Git for code collaboration purposes.
• Proven ability to work in a team setting, preferably as part of a product development team.
• Experience with motion capture technology and data analysis tools is a plus.
• Passion for sports and the use of athlete performance metrics.

Additional Information:

• Extended periods of computer usage.
• Some travel to company locations and client sites may be needed.