Senior Software Engineer - NHL

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Department: Business Strategy & Analytics

Reports To: Director, Engineering

Location: This position is 100% in-person and is based at the United Center in Chicago, IL.

Hours: Standard business hours are9:00 am - 5:00 pm / Monday - Friday. However, all positions may occasionally require non-traditional hours (nights, weekends, holidays) based on the event schedule.

Status: Full-Time, Exempt

# Direct Reports: None

Compensation: The annual base salary range for this position is $100,000 to $110,000. The final offer will be determined based on the candidate's qualifications, experience, and internal equity considerations. This role is eligible to participate in the Company's annual bonus program.

Role Summary:

As a Senior Software Engineer with the Chicago Blackhawks, you’ll be a part of a small team, building end-to-end web applications, data pipelines, and services that power our sales, marketing, and operational teams. This is the role for a builder: you’ll take ambiguous business problems and own them from concept to production, working across the front-end, back-end, and data layer with a level of autonomy and breadth you won’t find on a larger team. The right candidate is a hands‑on engineer who is energized by wearing multiple hats, solving problems, and learning new skills and stacks - and is excited to build the next generation of Blackhawks data and digital products.

Primary Responsibilities :

1. Full-Stack Development:
   • Design, build, and maintain responsive front-end interfaces and robust back-end services for internal and fan-facing applications.
   • Develop and integrate RESTful APIs that connect applications, data sources, and third-party platforms.
   • Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code across the full stack, owning features from concept to production.
   • Collaborate on code reviews and uphold engineering standards for quality, performance, and maintainability.
2. Technical Ownership & Leadership:
   • Act as the Director of Engineering’s primary technical partner, helping shape the team’s roadmap, standards, and architectural direction.
   • Take ambiguous business problems and own them end-to-end - scoping, designing, building, and shipping with minimal oversight.
   • Help model engineering standards for a small team through code review, best practices, and documentation.
3. Backend Systems:
   • Design, build, and maintain ELT pipelines from diverse data sources into the data warehouse and to other tools.
   • Optimize data extraction, loading, and transformation processes for performance, scalability, and application.
   • Build and optimize Salesforce CRM solutions to empower sales and marketing teams with actionable data and seamless integrations across platforms.
4. Operational Improvements:
   • Identify automation opportunities to enhance data processing and onboarding efficiency.
   • Deliver short-term user wins while building infrastructure for long-term success.
   • Consistently build documentation to ensure efficient communication across the team.
   • Identify opportunities for refactoring code to simplify codebase, reduce costs, or improve processing.
5. Security:
   • Develop secure, privacy-compliant solutions for all data processing and storage operations.
   • Ensure compliance with relevant policies and regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) for handling sensitive user data.
   • Implement security best practices such as encryption, access control, and monitoring.
6. Team Collaboration:
   • Partner with departments (revenue, marketing, IT) to understand needs, define roadmaps, and develop solutions.
   • Foster collaboration using Agile methodologies and shared project management tools (e.g. Clickup, Github, AzureML).

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

• 4+ years of professional full-stack software engineering experience

• Proficiency across both front-end and back-end development in a production environment

• Technical Skills:

  • Proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript and at least one back-end language (e.g., Python, Node.js, Go)
  • Experience with modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Vue, or Angular)
  • Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and working with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL), cloud data warehouses (e.g. Snowflake), and transformation/orchestration tools (dbt, Airflow, Prefect).
  • Experience developing and utilizing cloud-based architecture to solve complex needs
  • Familiarity with version control (Git), CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing
  • Familiarity with AI-first development, and tools like Claude Code
  • Familiarity with Azure Cloud tools a plus

• Soft Skills:

  • Strong collaboration skills, working effectively with designers, product owners, and fellow engineers
  • Self-starter able to identify challenges, chart solutions, and execute improvements
  • Ability to understand business requirements and develop technical solutions to support departmental needs
  • Ability to manage priorities and coordinate tasks to solve day-to-day challenges in a dynamic environment
  • Strong communication skills with ability to demonstrate clear, concise articulation of scenarios, options, risks, mitigations, and recommendations

• Ability to adapt to occasional variations in schedule including working nights, weekends, and holidays as business needs dictate based on the event calendar.

• Must demonstrate our organizational values of integrity, curiosity, empathy, collaboration, and originality

What It’s Like Working Here:

The Chicago Blackhawks experience isn’t just on the ice. Our office, located in the United Center, promotes a fun, engaging, fast-paced and collaborative atmosphere where we can celebrate both hockey and each other. Our commitment to curating an environment where all individuals feel empowered to bring their best self to work each day can be seen throughout our organization. Whether you are a job seeker looking to join the organization, a current member of our amazing team, or someone looking to help support our mission, our goal is the same – to reimagine the potential of hockey through memorable, inclusive experiences.

Perks and Benefits:

Competitive total rewards package, full benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401k matching, paid life insurance), employee assistance program (EAP), comprehensive PTO package, social events, volunteer opportunities, and learning and development. Employer-paid breakfast, lunch, parking, on-site gym and training classes, employee ticket program, and more.

The Team :

The Chicago Blackhawks started their journey as one of the NHL’s “Original Six” professional ice hockey teams in 1926. Members of the Central Division in the NHL’s Western Conference and six‑time Stanley Cup Champions (1934, 1938, 1961, 2010, 2013, 2015), the team calls the United Center home.

Each day the Team works to uphold our mission to reimagine the potential of hockey. At its core, the team and greater organization uphold its mission through its core values centered around integrity, curiosity, empathy, collaboration, and originality. They are fiercely dedicated to evolving and delivering new and legendary fan experiences and captivating new and diverse audiences, both on and off the ice. As part of their unwavering commitment to drive impact and purpose in the Chicago community, the organization opened the Fifth Third Arena - now Blackhawks Ice Center - (the team’s official practice facility and community space for youth hockey development), continues to make expansions to the Chicago Blackhawks Foundation, and acquired the AHL team the Rockford IceHogs.

The Chicago Blackhawks continue to grow in its commitments to honor and celebrate Black Hawk's legacy by offering our platforms, making meaningful contributions, collaborating with Native American people, and reimagining ways to support the many Native American people and communities they live amongst and alongside. They engage in this work through their formal partnership with Black Hawk’s ancestral tribe, the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma, which the tribe established with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2021.

The Chicago Blackhawks is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity at all levels. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, religion or religious creed, color, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, local law, ordinance, or regulation and will not be discriminated against on these bases. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities.