Hey!

Imagine amateur football finally had the platform it deserves.
Every weekend, millions of people write their own personal football stories – on pitches, in clubs and on the sidelines. We believe this passion deserves a digital home too.
That's exactly what we're building every single day.

Main information

Start: Immediately
Location: Cologne, Berlin London or Remote
Workload: Full-time
Team: Teamwear/Tech

Is this a match?

The most important basics – so we both know if it could work.

100% remote: This role is generally available 100% remote within the EU or UK. If you'd still love to work from one of our offices in Cologne, Berlin or London - you're more than welcome.
Experience: You bring 6-8 years of experience in software engineering and data engineering.
Languages: You speak English fluently - German is a big plus.
Startup spirit: You'd rather shape things than just tick boxes - even when that means figuring stuff out without a finished roadmap.

Your playing field

Here's why this role matters for our mission.

Teamwear is one of our three company headlines, but technically it currently depends on one person.
As long as this remains the case, the area cannot scale beyond its current scope.
Your goal: To enable Teamwear to scale beyond its current scope.

How you'll make a difference

This is how you move our mission forward every day.

Data Pipelines: You build and maintain data pipelines for automated data collection, structured so that new sources and markets can be added quickly.
Algorithms: You develop algorithms to extract relevant information from websites and images.
Data Quality: You ensure data quality through validation, confidence levels, monitoring, and clean handovers internally and to partners.
Data Infrastructure: You manage and further develop the data infrastructure of the Teamwear area.
Technical Point of Contact: You act as the second technical point of contact for the Teamwear area.

In addition to your core responsibilities, you will also:

Internal Tools: You develop internal tools that enable the team to collect and correct data themselves.
Analytics & Reports: You create analytics and reports for internal stakeholders and external partners.

What you bring to the table

We're not looking for a perfect CV. But you should recognise yourself in these points.

Broad Technical Skillset: You move between data pipelines, backend and some frontend, and are not afraid of AI or image analysis.
Data Automation: You have experience with automated data pipelines, web scraping and image processing.
Databases & Data Modelling: You have expertise in databases and data modelling.
Independent Working: You work independently, even when there is no second engineer in the room and the context comes from business teams.
Fast Learner: You quickly get familiar with unfamiliar domains and ask the right questions along the way.
80/20 Mindset: You know when fast and good enough is the right approach and when the data needs to be 100% accurate because a decision is based on it.
Data Quality: You care about details when it comes to data quality and make uncertainties explicit.
Data-Driven Thinking: You don't stop at analysing the data. You identify what is in the data, what it means and what we should look at next - even if nobody asked.
Engineering Practice: You write clean, maintainable code and follow good engineering practices such as testing and code reviews.
Tools: Python, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Grafana, Metabase, Pulumi, Kubernetes, AWS, LLM APIs

Good to know
We want you to know what this role really looks like from day one.

If you are looking for clearly defined tickets, a large engineering team and a finished tech stack, this role is probably not for you.
- You will work largely as a team of two within Engineering. Most of your day-to-day work will be with business people, not engineers.
- You have two connections: technically to Engineering and on the content side to the Teamwear team. This gives you a lot of freedom and means you need to set your own priorities.
- A large part of the role is data collection and data quality, rather than greenfield ML. The exciting part is turning messy, real-world sources into reliable data.
- The area is new. There is no finished setup for you to work with - you will help build it.
- AI-first: We work AI-first, and AI tools are an active part of our workflow.

Bonus

Not a must - but this'll definitely earn you extra points.

Experience with AWS, Kubernetes or IaC (Pulumi/Terraform). You can also learn this with us.
Experience presenting and preparing data for non-technical audiences.
A personal connection to amateur football.

Benefits

We want you to love joining us - and still love being part of the team a long time from now.

Be part of it from the start – Shape how Prematch grows and transforms amateur football.
Competitive salary – You’ll be paid fairly and transparently.
Employee participation (VSOP) - directly benefit from the company’s success.
Three cool offices in Cologne, Berlin, and London - true startup vibes to work and grow together. Want to visit another office? We support that too!
Remote work - depending on your distance to the office, you work 1–3 days a week onsite and the rest flexibly remote - whatever suits you best. Tech & Product roles sometimes offer 100% remote.
Remote, even from afar - Whether it’s a week of sunshine abroad or a few days with family - we allow flexible work from outside your usual location.
Team spirit - whether in the office or at home, we use cool tools and a virtual office to keep the team tightly connected.
Modern IT equipment - We provide the tools and devices you need to be productive.
27 vacation days per year - For your rest and to recharge. Plus special arrangements if you’re a parent, so you can better balance family and relaxation.
Team events at our locations - Whether after work in Cologne, Berlin, or London: we regularly bring teams together to connect and grow stronger.
Offsites with the whole team - Four days out of the daily grind with the entire team: trips, brainstorming, onsite collaboration, and real team spirit.

Still here? Sounds like a pretty good match.

If you've made it this far, we hope we've managed to show you one thing: how we work, what we believe in and why this role at PREMATCH is something special.
Maybe this is exactly the moment you've been waiting for: a team that thinks big, a vision that actually moves things and the chance to help reshape amateur football digitally – together with us.

Now it's your turn.

Click on ‘Apply now’ - it’ll only take 2 minutes.
All we need is your CV. You can tell us the rest in our simple, short application form.
Don’t meet all the requirements? If you think you’re still a good fit - just apply