Full-Time
Senior C++ Software Engineer
Sportradar
1,001-5,000 employees
Global sports data and betting tech
No salary listed
Bremerhaven, Germany
In Person
On-site in Bremen, Germany. Occasional visits to Bremen office for events.
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- Degree in software development, or other relevant experience.
- 3 years of experience as a software developer, either professionally or in personal projects.
- Excellent knowledge in object-oriented programming languages like C++ and Python
- Interest for or experience with Game Engines
- The extension of complex and performance-optimized software challenges you
- Strong teamwork and communication skills
- Good command of written and spoken English
- Continuous personal development is a matter of course for you
- You will support our international team of C++ developers and designers in exciting projects as well as doing maintenance and stabilization of running systems
- Your code integrates high-performance C++ techniques with Unreal Engine’s rendering capabilities to push the boundaries of real-time broadcast graphics
- Generalize functionality into modules that can be reused in multiple / future products
- Share knowledge and experience with the rest of the team
- Support and guide junior developers and non-developer members of the team
- In projects you plan and develop new features together with the team with C++ or other programming languages
- Knowledge of AWS services.
- Experience with Java or C++ Testing Frameworks.
- Willingness to practice Test-Driven Development and pair programming.
- Experience with Live Streaming tools and technologies, e.g. FFmpeg, HLS, DASH.
Sportradar collects real-time sports data from 80+ sports and over a million events each year using a mix of human scouts and automated systems, then sells it to betting operators, media companies, and other partners. Its offerings include Betradar real-time data feeds and odds, the ORAKO end-to-end sportsbook platform, data APIs and streaming tools, broadcasting solutions, and the Integrity Services division that helps federations detect match fixing, as well as ad:s marketing services. It differentiates itself by delivering a wide, integrated suite of products across betting, media, and integrity in one partner, supported by direct sports partnerships and broad coverage of markets. Its goal is to be a leading global provider of sports data and betting technology, helping operators run bets, media tell stories, and federations protect the integrity of sport.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
St. Gallen, Switzerland
Founded
2001
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- The June 2026 Kalshi partnership positions Sportradar as the core data provider for MLB, NHL, MLS, and UFC prediction markets.
- Wimbledon rights renewal and IMG Arena acquisition expand its premium audiovisual and betting data portfolio ahead of 2028 Olympics.
- FanID addresses the 2024 third-party cookie phase-out, monetizing fan insights through personalized ads for rightsholders and brands.
What critics are saying
- A July 17, 2026 securities fraud suit alleges 270+ unlicensed gambling platforms generated 27–40% of revenue, risking license revocation from FIFA and NBA.
- If Muddy Waters' short-seller report is validated, Sportradar faces criminal charges, loss of integrity contracts, and existential regulatory collapse within 6–12 months.
- The 22.6% share price drop and investor litigation may trigger further 15–30% erosion as NBA, MLB, and FIFA partners terminate contracts within 0–3 months.
What makes Sportradar unique
- Sportradar is the only global provider combining real-time sports data, betting technology, and integrity services for 900+ operators and leagues.
- Its Integrity Services division monitors 600,000+ matches annually for FIFA, UEFA, and the IOC, detecting match-fixing via proprietary AI.
- The company launched FanID in June 2026, the first sports-specific data clean room enabling privacy-compliant first-party fan data collaboration.
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↑ 1%Sportradar investors invited to lead securities fraud class action lawsuit. Glancy Prongay Wolke & Rotter LLP announced on June 22 that investors who suffered losses in Sportradar Group AG have the opportunity to lead a securities fraud class action lawsuit against the company. The complaint alleges that, between November 7, 2024, and April 21, 2026, Sportradar and its executives failed to disclose that the company intentionally worked with black-market gambling operators to increase revenues. The complaint also claims that Sportradar's know-your-customer (KYC) and compliance processes were not as robust as had been claimed by the company's leadership. As a result, it is alleged that positive statements made about Sportradar's business operations and prospects were materially misleading or lacked a reasonable basis during the relevant period. Investors who wish to participate in the lawsuit or learn more are encouraged to contact Charles Linehan at Glancy Prongay Wolke & Rotter LLP. The firm provided contact details including an email address and telephone numbers for further inquiries. According to the announcement, "If you inquire by email, please include your mailing address, telephone number and number of shares purchased." The deadline for lead plaintiff applications is July 17, 2026. The law firm stated that individuals do not need to take any action at this time in order to be considered members of the class action; they may retain counsel of their choice or remain absent members. The press release notes it may be considered attorney advertising under certain jurisdictions' laws and ethical rules. PR Newswire operates in more than 170 countries with support in over 40 languages and collaborates with more than 500,000 media outlets and influencers globally through its network of newsrooms. It offers services such as press release distribution, AI-enhanced content tools, social sharing features, and expert editorial support available around the clock for over a decade of experience providing SEO guidance, according to PR Newswire.
Sportradar and Kalshi announce first-of-its-kind Data and infrastructure global partnership for prediction markets. Global Agreement Positions Sportradar as Core Data and Solutions Provider Across Premier Sports Leagues Opportunity to participate across Kalshi ecosystem including market makers and brokers ST. GALLEN, Switzerland & NEW YORK, NY, June 8, 2026 - Sportradar Group AG (NASDAQ: SRAD) today announced a landmark multi-year global agreement with Kalshi, the world's largest prediction market. This strategic agreement positions Sportradar as an official data and solutions provider for Kalshi, delivering a broad portfolio of premium sports content and services across major sports properties including Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Hockey League (NHL), Major League Soccer (MLS), and Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), among others. As prediction markets continue to emerge as a fast growing and regulated segment of the sports ecosystem, Sportradar is positioned to play a foundational role in enabling their growth and facilitating a framework for integrity. This agreement also establishes the ability for Sportradar to enter into agreements directly with Kalshi's key partners, including brokers and market makers, with real time official data and scalable solutions across the value chain. Sportradar will provide Kalshi with a range solutions from Sportradar Prediction Services, including: * Official Sports Data and Live Odds: Fast, reliable, accurate official data and live odds to power pre-game and in-play markets, enhancing market efficiency while ensuring timely settlements * Fan Engagement Solutions: Dynamic, real-time content, including scores, schedules, and data visualizations, designed to drive deeper engagement * Customer Acquisition Solutions: Leading marketing services to help acquire high value sports fans * Industry-Leading Integrity Services: Robust integrity framework including Sportradar UFDS AI, which detects suspicious behavior, and Sportradar Integrity Exchange (SIE), which enables participants to share integrity threats through a secure network The partnership underscores Sportradar's leading position as it extends its core data and premium solutions capabilities into adjacent, high-growth markets. By leveraging its global distribution model and deep relationships, Sportradar continues to broaden its commercial reach while reinforcing its position as critical infrastructure for the evolving sports industry. Sportradar will provide products and services to Kalshi and other licensed prediction market entities that operate in compliance with applicable regulations and legal requirements. Carsten Koerl, Chief Executive Officer of Sportradar, said: "Prediction markets represent a compelling growth engine for the global sports ecosystem and Sportradar is uniquely positioned to shape and power this emerging sector. Our partnership with Kalshi extends the reach of our premium sports data and services into a rapidly evolving landscape, fostering collaboration with market makers and the broader marketplace. This partnership with Kalshi marks a critical first step. We look forward to working with key prediction market participants as the landscape matures, establishing the trusted, compliant framework for sports innovation just as we have successfully delivered in online sports betting." Tarek Mansour, co-founder and CEO of Kalshi, said: "The breadth and depth of this partnership is what makes it a big deal. We're using official league data to ensure quicker trade settlements, creating an overall better customer experience. We're also collaborating on an integrity monitoring program to further protect our users."
The dark secret at the heart of the Sportradar controversy and Indian organized crime. Sportradar, the darling of the sports integrity industry, has been been hit hard by two investigation reports on their alleged links to criminal bookmakers and a superb documentary on organized crime in international cricket. What a day this has been! The journalistic equivalent of you-wait-for-hours and then-5 buses-all-come-along-at-once. There are at least five major stories that have broken today. For now, here are some points on two of those stories - more later on the other scandals. The dark secret at the heart of the Sportradar controversy. This is a MASSIVE story. The alleged collusion of the multi-billion-dollar company Sportradar with criminals in the illegal bookmaker world. The company is the darling of the investment community, the unknowing 'experts' of the sports integrity community and the provider of 'integrity service' for organizations like the ATP, NBA, WNBA, NHL, MLB, MLS, PGA TOUR, UEFA, FIFA, CONMEBOL, AFC, and the Bundesliga. Not any more it ain't... This week, two short-selling, investment research companies took a look at Sportradar's business practices. Sportradar's stock valuation fell like a stone: 28% in 48 hours which is approximately $500 million. The stock is starting to recover now (Friday, April 24) and I am reading very, very carefully the reports by these short selling companies, speaking to Sportradar insiders and outsiders - will write more about the issue next week. A few points: First, the obvious - there are lots of genuinely good people inside Sportradar. Two, the people writing the reports are short sellers. In other words, they profit from the fall in value of Sportradar's stocks that their reports have brought about - that is an acknowledged, walking/talking conflict of interest. Three, however, lots of what they write seems accurate. Sportradar has always seemed to me lots of smoke and mirrors. In my opinion by selling sports leagues the image that they could always spot corruption through monitoring of the betting data, Sportradar has made a comfy situation for lots of people who should not be in business bed together: sports leagues and bookmakers. It gets worse in that Sportsradar is itself in part owned by Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association* - so you have a circuit of conflicts: the leagues provide the data to Sportradar which sells it to the bookmakers who sponsor the leagues. Sportradar's Carsten Koerl itself, responded to the reports with an open letter to the "global sports community": "There are numerous allegations in these reports that are either entirely false, poorly researched, deliberately taken out of context or, at best, repackaging the same tired stories we have heard for years. Then there are the specific claims regarding my supposed ties with Russian oligarchs. I believe these were thrown in to promote controversy and take advantage of the current news cycle." The secret. "[Sportradar] SRAD's CEO likes to call his company the FBI of gambling. The FBI does not offer to introduce informants to human traffickers at trade shows." Muddywaters Research Company, April 22, 2026 The essential accusation made by the short sellers, is that Sportradar served both the legal and illegal side of the sports gambling market. As the MuddyWaters researchers, after allegedly being introduced by Sportradar executives to illegal Asian bookmakers, describe it, "Putting the BET into Aiding and Abetting." This is a massive scandal but ummm... almost everybody does that in the gambling market. The line between the legal and illegal market is wafer-thin in the betting market. It is all a little like the environmental charity world: Greenpeace vs. Sea Shepherd - all the environmentalists know each other, they love and hate each other depending on the moment, they date the same people, they all eat at the same vegan restaurant and many of the executives work at one company and then switch to another. At the International Casino Exhibition(ICE) which is the big event for sports bookmakers around the world. All the sports gambling come to it both legal and illegal markets. Suicide, Public Health and legal sports gambling. Today, I am at the Northeastern University Public Health Advocacy Institute conference about the public health issues around online gambling. There are lots of impassioned speeches about the risks of the gamblification of its sports, communities, and countries. There are people who have lost their family through suicide to online sports gambling addiction. But in the discussion there are no appeals against the 'illegal market'. In the discussion about the public health effects of sports gambling there is no difference around the legal and illegal market. The Massachusetts State Senator John Keenan spoke about the similarities of the sports gambling industry between the Purdue created Opioid epidemic that caused millions of deaths in the United States. He said, "The sports gambling companies [have been] using the same playbook [as Purdue], using the same tools, refusing responsibilities in the same way, we have to hold them accountable." More analysis of the Sportradar situation to come as soon as possible. PS. One story to emerge from the conference - the State of New Jersey is moving towards banning all micro bets on US sports. * My apologies in an earlier draft of this article, I wrote that the sports league with equity stakes in Sportradar was the National Football League (NFL). This was an error - please accept my apologies for this slip-up. Indian organized crime in Canadian sport. Last week, my former colleagues at the fifth estate - Canada's equivalent of 60 Minutes/Panorama did an EXCELLENT investigation in the alleged links between the Lawrence Bishnoi organized crime group and international cricket, specifically, the Canadian Cricket Association and their World Cup team that was linked to spot fixing, bribery and corruption. I will write more about their work in another post but for now, a few points. It is good to see the fifth estate - finally - return to their glory days. All programs go through high points and low points. For years, the fifth estate was a dirge of historical victim-of-the-week stories: lots of worthy people speaking about issues that happened decades ago, instead of holding current politicians or officials to account. The fifth estate celebrated breaking this mold by focusing on South Asian organized crime in Canada. It is about bloody time! It is genuinely difficult to state the sway that Indian/Pakistani/Sri Lanka goondas have held over their Canadian immigrant counterparts. The range of high-level drug trafficking, thuggery, extortion, political assassination attempts, killings, and the worst terrorist attack in the western world until 9/11 all held sway in Canada's South Asian communities. But every time journalists or police officials would try to bring attention to these issues Declan Hill had to go through the 'systemic racism' argument that essentially made more victims and stopped any accountability to the bullies within the community. This nonsense seems to be stopping and the result is exceptional journalism like Cricket Corruption - watch here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cricket-canada-allegations-fifth-estate-9.7167081 Stay tuned - a lot of stories have emerged in the last 24-hours...
Sportradar accused of cooperation with illegal and Russian bookmakers. Tania Levees 23 April 2026 Swiss betting data provider Sportradar has been accused of working with illegal operators and having ties to Russian bookmakers, according to reports from Callisto Research and Muddy Waters. The reports say that up to 40% of Sportradar's revenue is generated through offshore partners. The most detailed allegations are contained in the Muddy Waters report. It says its representatives, posing as a prospective bookmaker at ICE 2026 in Barcelona, spoke with Sportradar staff and identified China, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam - where online gambling is restricted - as target markets. According to the report, Sportradar employees did not refuse to engage. Instead, one manager allegedly demonstrated products for such markets and said the company "serves everyone". The report also alleges that Sportradar continues to work with several Russian bookmakers. According to the report, some may be linked to individuals under sanctions, posing a potential risk to the company. The report names Fonbet, Liga Stavok, BetBoom, Leon, Winline and Olimpbet. It also estimates that sales to Russian clients may account for around 11-12% of Sportradar's revenue. 1xBet and 1win are also cited as having links to Russia. In addition, the report says its authors analysed the code of offshore betting sites and identified dozens of operators using Sportradar's infrastructure while operating in prohibited or legally ambiguous jurisdictions. After the reports were published, Sportradar's shares fell about 22.6%. Sportradar rejected the allegations. In a statement, the company said the Muddy Waters and Callisto reports reflect a "fundamental misunderstanding" of its business and the industry. Sportradar added that it works exclusively with licensed operators and adheres to strict client due diligence standards. Tania Levees | Journalist Former professional poker player | iGaming author | Sports betting analysis | Poker strategy & gameplay | Gambling industry insights | Since 2017.
Sportradar Group AG remains a Wall Street favourite, with approximately 90% of covering analysts maintaining "Buy" ratings as of 6 April 2026. The consensus price target of $28.12 suggests over 65% upside potential. The sports data provider is expanding into adjacent wagering categories through its recently launched Playradar platform, an iGaming brand combining sports data, streaming and casino gaming. The company aims to boost engagement and monetisation by integrating sports betting into casino experiences. Morgan Stanley maintained its "Equal Weight" rating whilst trimming its price target from $26 to $24 on 25 March, following updates to incorporate fourth-quarter earnings and industry trends. Sportradar provides data services to media and sports betting industries across global markets.