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Job Title: Associate Basketball Developer
Department: Basketball Data Strategy, Basketball Operations
Reports to: Senior Basketball Developer & Analyst
Manages: N/A
Position Summary: The primary responsibility of the Associate Basketball Developer, Basketball Data Strategy is to create interactive tools, extract insights, and communicate results for various sub-departments within Basketball Operations, including but not limited to front office, coaching, scouting, and training staff. This role requires comfort in the full stack of necessary technologies to ingest, analyze, create a narrative around, and communicate data to the relevant end-users. In addition, the role requires significant self-motivation to learn new skills and apply innovative techniques & visualizations to ongoing work. The Basketball Developer will work under and alongside the Senior Basketball Developer & Analyst to learn infrastructure, best practices, and departmental design language in creating new tools.
Essential Functions (Duties & Responsibilities)
Travel: Less than 10% of the time (league events, etc.)
Hours: Regular office hours (9am – 5:30pm M-F) with flexible work from home allowances within reason; must be available to work evenings, weekends, and holidays as required within reason (e.g. when team has a game)
Job Title: Associate Basketball Developer
Department: Basketball Data Strategy, Basketball Operations
Reports to: Senior Basketball Developer & Analyst
Manages: N/A
Position Summary: The primary responsibility of the Associate Basketball Developer, Basketball Data Strategy is to create interactive tools, extract insights, and communicate results for various sub-departments within Basketball Operations, including but not limited to front office, coaching, scouting, and training staff. This role requires comfort in the full stack of necessary technologies to ingest, analyze, create a narrative around, and communicate data to the relevant end-users. In addition, the role requires significant self-motivation to learn new skills and apply innovative techniques & visualizations to ongoing work. The Basketball Developer will work under and alongside the Senior Basketball Developer & Analyst to learn infrastructure, best practices, and departmental design language in creating new tools.
Essential Functions (Duties & Responsibilities)
- Work with the Senior Basketball Developer & Analyst on projects providing insights around on-court strategy, player acquisition, asset valuation, and player development
- Develop/maintain web-application features (e.g. Player Profiles, Scouting Reports)
- Create visualization tools in a web-app context utilizing both 2D and 3D Player Movement Data
- Collaborate with other members of the staff, including but not limited to salary cap strategy, G League, strength & training, scouting, coaching, and player development
- Represent the Los Angeles Lakers in a professional capacity at League and industry events
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- 2 years of professional work experience in software engineering strongly preferred
- Experience with modern front-end frameworks (e.g. React, Vue) and related technology stacks
- Proficiency in component-based development, building scalable UI infrastructure, and other front-end architecture patterns
- Experience working with SQL/Relational databases
- Deeply curious about basketball and the factors that drive organizational success in the NBA
- Self-starter mentality with the ability to translate questions into actionable projects
- Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to balance speed, scalability, and user impact
- Collaborative mindset and strong communication skills
Travel: Less than 10% of the time (league events, etc.)
Hours: Regular office hours (9am – 5:30pm M-F) with flexible work from home allowances within reason; must be available to work evenings, weekends, and holidays as required within reason (e.g. when team has a game)
