Join Our Team
To make the best software possible, we’re looking to expand our team of development and sports science experts. We’re a young startup working hybridly from home and at the tech innovation hub Factory Berlin in a relaxed and friendly, but focused and agile atmosphere. Our strengths are in working closely together and constantly learning from each other in a transparent team where every voice matters.
If you’re interested in working with us, please take a look at our job openings below.
Our Job Openings
Below, you can find all the positions that we’re currently trying to fill. Don’t hesitate to send us an initiative application if you don’t see your skillset represented below, though! We’re always interested to hear from talented people from all walks of life.
UI/UX Designer (f/m/d)
UI/UX Designer (f/m/d)
Temporary employment
Freelancer
We’re looking for a skilled UI/UX designer with 2D illustration skills to help us create innovative software solutions for sports tactics training. In close collaboration with our team, you will establish UI/UX project- and brand guidelines and be on the forefront of defining the UI style. We’re also interested in your 2D illustration skills to create individual 2D graphics representing football players, balls, goals, training tools and a football field for our animation editor. If you’re less of an illustrator and more of a UI designer or vice versa, we’re still interested in hearing from you since we may hire multiple people for different types of graphics.
We offer:
- Flexible work hours
- Support for working from home
- Competitive pay
- A consistent mid-term paid work-relationship
- Frequent communication and detailed feedback
- Work in an open, friendly environment where every voice matters
- Temporary full time employment as well as freelance contracts are both a possibility
Your tasks:
- Establish UI/UX project guidelines and drive UI style definition
- Create a logo and brand guidelines for our software product
- Create modern Interface designs from conception to implementation
- Designing and creating interfaces, 2D graphics and icons
- Working closely with software designers and programmers to create high quality graphics and interfaces that clearly communicate the functionality and features of the software
- Ensure a consistent UI/UX experience across the whole project
Your skills:
- Proficiency with Figma, Adobe XD or equivalent tools
- Proficiency with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Affinity Designer or equivalent tools
- Design thinking and understanding of the core usability principles
- You have a good understanding of layout, shapes, colours and typography
- You work reliably and independently
- Experience designing UI/UX for websites as well as software products
- Experience designing multi-platform responsive user interfaces
- Ability to communicate the design vision to the team clearly and effectively
- Experience designing for VR is a plus
Programmer (f/m/d) (Full Time)
Programmer (f/m/d) (Full Time)
Full time employment
Partial home office
For our football training software platform we’re looking to hire a highly experienced programmer who can support our team with excellent technical knowledge and experience creating solid and secure software. You will be in charge of creating a software to connect 3rd party data with our software. This software will run on our website and transform data into a different format. You will work as a regular member of our team and should be located in Berlin or willing and able to move to Berlin.
We offer:
- A full time, reliable, permanent employment
- Flexible work hours
- Support for working from home about half the time, alongside an office space with a membership at Factory Berlin
- Competitive pay
- 28 days paid holiday
- Modern hardware and software provided by us
- Work in an open, friendly environment where every voice matters
Your tasks:
- Creating a web application to transform data between different formats
- Optimizing data
- Testing your work frequently to ensure correct performance on various browsers and devices
- Documenting your work thoroughly in a shared company wiki
- Programming with data safety and protection in mind
- Managing your tasks and time estimates proactively and communicating potential changes in the plan early
- Discussing your challenges, tasks, and results with the team, receive feedback, and implement desired changes
Your skills:
- Ability to develop automatic solutions that transform data from one format into another
- Experience working with APIs, especially using python
- Excellent knowlegde of a relevant coding language (python, java, php, flask, .net, …)
- Experience handling JSON files
- Knowledge of Unity and C#
- Knowledge of data management and web-app development
- Ability to write clean, well structured, readable code in any of the languages common for web application development
- Able to explain complex, technical topics to non-programmers
- Fluent in English and / or German
- At least 3 years of relevant, professional experience and a finished relevant degree
Nice to have:
- Knowledge of software database integration
- Experience with encryption methods and cyber security
- A decent understanding and passion for football tactics
Animation Programmer (f/m/d) (Full Time)
Animation Programmer (f/m/d) (Full Time)
Full time employment
Partial/full remote
For our football training software platform, we’re looking to hire a highly experienced programmer and designer who can support our team with excellent technical knowledge and experience designing technically solid and user-friendly software. You will be in charge of keeping up the development of our extensive animation system, handling locomotion, kicks, ball receives, dribbles, goalkeeper actions, and more. Beyond that, you’ll help our development and design team to design systems that make Apollo the best training tool possible. You will work as a regular member of our team and should be located in Berlin or willing and able to move to Berlin.
We offer:
- A long-term professional work relationship
- Flexible work hours
- Ability to work remotely and / or onsite with us on our presence days
- Competitive pay
- Modern hardware and software provided by us
- Work in an open, friendly environment where every voice matters
Your tasks:
- Add to and maintain an existing codebase
- Set up animator controller graphs, blend trees, parameters, scripts for our animation system
- Write code that performs complex tasks such as turning moving dots into fully animated humanoid football players, using the animations from our database
- Expand and improve our movement system driven by animation curves
- Keep the vision of the project in mind for every task that is done by you or others
Your skills:
- Experience setting up complex animation systems with Unity Mechanim Animators and c# scripting
- Design thinking skills that apply to the creation of animation systems
- Experience writing design documents for production
- Good organizational skills and the ability to give and receive feedback in a structured, professional manner
- Solid understanding of the Unity engine as well as the ability to write clean, well-structured, readable code in c#
- Fluent in English and / or German
- At least 3 years of relevant, professional experience and a finished relevant degree
Nice to have:
- Good theoretical understanding of 3d modeling and/or texturing for realtime applications
- Experience working with highly realistic motion capture animations
- Experience working with and deploying for VR
- Experience with optimization, especially for mobile platforms, WebGL, and standalone VR devices
- A decent understanding and passion for football tactics
Programmer (f/m/d) (Freelancer)
Programmer (f/m/d) (Freelancer)
Temporary employment
Freelancer
For our football training software platform we’re looking to hire a highly experienced programmer who can support our team with excellent technical knowledge and experience creating solid and secure software. You will be in charge of creating a software to connect 3rd party data with our software. This software will run on our website and transform data into a different format. You will work closely together with our development team and our sports experts to guarantee smooth processes and a result that makes sense to our clients.
We offer:
- A mid-term professional work relationship
- Flexible work hours
- Ability to work remotely and / or onsite with us on our presence days
- Competitive pay
- Work in an open, friendly environment where every voice matters
Your tasks:
- Creating a web application to transform data between different formats
- Optimizing data
- Testing your work frequently to ensure correct performance on various browsers and devices
- Documenting your work thoroughly in a shared company wiki
- Programming with data safety and protection in mind
- Managing your tasks and time estimates proactively and communicating potential changes in the plan early
- Discussing your challenges, tasks, and results with the team, receive feedback, and implement desired changes
Your skills:
- Ability to develop automatic solutions that transform data from one format into another
- Experience working with APIs, especially using python
- Excellent knowlegde of a relevant coding language (python, java, php, flask, .net, …)
- Experience handling JSON files
- Knowledge of data management and web-app development
- Ability to write clean, well structured, readable code in any of the languages common for web application development
- Able to explain complex, technical topics to non-programmers
- Fluent in English and / or German
- At least 3 years of relevant, professional experience and a finished relevant degree
Nice to have:
- Knowledge of Unity, C# and software database integration
- Experience with encryption methods and cyber security
- A decent understanding and passion for football tactics
3D Artist (f/m/d)
3D Artist (f/m/d)
Temporary employment
Freelancer
We’re looking for a 3D artist who can create VR-ready, textured, hard surface models with special care for real-time performance. The models we need range from a football environment (such as a training pitch or stadium) to props such as footballs and goals to rigged, abstract football characters with humanoid proportions. Even if you’re only skilled in some of the listed areas, we’re still interested in hearing from you since we may hire multiple 3D artists for different types of models.
We offer:
- Flexible work hours
- Support for working from home
- Competitive pay
- A consistent mid-term paid work-relationship
- Frequent communication and detailed feedback
- Work in an open, friendly environment where every voice matters
- Temporary full time employment as well as freelance contracts are both a possibility
Your skills:
- Produce high quality realistic and accurate hard-surface 3D models
- Create realistic, fitting PBR materials for these models
- Develop a consistent style and direction for the 3D assets together with our team
- Knowledge of real-time performance and VR
- Knowledge of rigging 3D characters with humanoid skeletons
- Ability to understand specific prompts and execute accordingly
- Fluent in English or German
- Able to communicate frequently and implement feedback for work in progress results
- Knowledge of setting up shaders using amplify shader editor is a plus
- Some knowledge of Unity is a plus
Initiative Application (f/m/d)
Initiative Application (f/m/d)
If you don’t see yourself in any of the other roles but still think you can add something to our team, don’t hesitate to apply with an initiative application!
Please mention the role you see yourself in, your skillsets and why you’d like to work with us in your application message.
We’re especially interested in hearing from people from business development, software and web-development, as well as the sports industry at large.
Anything from permanent full time employment to temporary freelance gigs can be possible.
Your Application
If you want to join our team, please fill the form below. A short, but meaningful application letter alongside a CV document is all that’s needed. We’re also interested in seeing any portfolio links that you may have. Please simply include these in the application letter or other appendices.
All the best! We look forward to reading your message.
