Midfield is a small team, which shapes what it is like to work here more than anything else on this page. There is no layer between having an idea and shipping it, and there is nowhere to hide either.
How we work
Remote, asynchronous, and output-based. Nobody counts hours. Work is judged on whether it is correct and whether it landed, which for an archive means: is the data right, and can a reader find it.
We care about accuracy to a degree that some people find tedious. If the difference between a match being classified as a first-class fixture or a List A one strikes you as worth an afternoon, you will fit in. If it strikes you as a detail nobody will notice, you will find this frustrating, because plenty of readers notice.
What we look for
- Writers who know a sport properly rather than generically, and who can tell the difference between a story and a press release.
- Data contributors who enjoy reconciling conflicting records and are comfortable saying a figure cannot be verified.
- Engineers comfortable with PHP, MySQL and the specific problems of running a large site on modest infrastructure: caching, query cost, and pages that have to load on a slow mobile connection.
Formal qualifications matter less here than evidence. A blog nobody reads, a scraper you wrote for your own use, a spreadsheet of a competition nobody else has bothered to record. These tell us more than a degree does.
Current openings
We are not advertising a specific role at the moment. That does not mean there is nothing available; hiring here tends to start with someone getting in touch rather than with a job posting.
Applying anyway
Speculative applications are genuinely read. To make yours worth reading, skip the covering letter and send us:
- something you made, whether an article, a repository, a dataset or a piece of analysis
- two or three sentences on what you would want to work on here
- one thing on this site you think is wrong, and why
That last one is not a trick. It is the fastest way for us to see how you think, and the people who answer it well are the people we end up talking to.
Send it to info@midfield.live with the role you have in mind in the subject line. If we are not hiring for it, we will say so rather than leave you waiting.
Freelance and contributions
We commission freelance work for tournament coverage. Rates are agreed per piece in advance. Corrections and data contributions from readers are always welcome and do not need to go through any of this. The contact page is enough.