Software Engineer

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant’s sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

We’re building the next-generation Golf Club Management technology platform, and we’re looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our team of builders. Our core product, BRS Premier, already serves hundreds of golf clubs across Central Europe with a comprehensive B2B solution covering membership management, point-of-sale, tee-time booking, and course administration. We have an exciting future with expansion into new global markets.

This is an opportunity to grow your backend engineering career in a supportive, high-standard environment. You’ll work alongside experienced engineers who care about code quality, mentorship, and doing things right. You won’t just write code, you’ll learn how production systems work end to end, from database to deployment.

What You’ll Do

• Deliver software components and improvements to our backend microservices, including new features, refactoring, and deprecation work.

• Write high-quality, well-tested code that meets our Engineering Code Bar; code that is well written, maintainable, robust, secure, and efficient.

• Contribute to the full software development lifecycle: scoping, design, coding, testing, documentation, deployment, and maintenance.

• Participate in operational support, helping identify root causes of issues and learning how our systems behave in production.

• Collaborate with peers through code reviews, daily standups, and team discussions, actively seeking feedback to improve our work.

• Work with stakeholders and peers to understand business and customer value, ensuring we deliver the right solutions.

Our Tech Stack

• Cloud Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, RDS, ECS)

• Core Languages & Frameworks: Java 17, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud

• Database: PostgreSQL (multi-tenant)

• Monitoring & Observability: Datadog (OpenTelemetry)

• Practices: CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Cloud Native Microservices Architecture

• Containers: Docker

What We’re Looking For

• Foundational experience with Java or a similar object-oriented language.

• Familiarity with Spring Boot.

• Understanding of relational databases and SQL fundamentals.

• Ability to write clean, simple code that others can maintain and extend.

• Strong understanding of relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, including query optimisation and schema design.

• A willingness to learn from feedback, seek out differing views, and change your mind when presented with better information.

• Comfort working in a team that values code reviews, constructive dialogue, and shared ownership of quality.

Desireable

• Experience with REST API development.

• Exposure to Docker or containerised development environments.

• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows (e.g., GitHub Actions).

• Experience with AWS services.

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected].

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