We’re partnering with the team behind one of the most widely used fantasy sports and gaming platforms—serving millions of passionate users and backed by top-tier investors. Their product is mobile-first, socially driven, and scaling fast across new game formats and user communities.

They’re hiring a Staff Programmer, Backend to help scale the core systems behind their Fantasy sports and DFS offerings. You'll be driving architectural decisions, build critical backend services, and mentor fellow engineers as they scale to support tens of millions of sports fans.

What You’ll Do

1. Design & build core backend systems
2. Architect scalable, distributed systems capable of handling millions of users
3. Lead backend initiatives from concept to deployment
4. Optimize system performance and proactively address bottlenecks through monitoring, profiling, and capacity planning
5. Drive innovation, technical direction, and team culture as a key engineering voice at the leadership level

What They’re Looking For

1. 9+ years of backend software engineering experience
2. Passion for sports, gaming, or building multiplayer or real-time systems
3. Proven ability to design and scale distributed systems
4. Strong proficiency in one or more backend languages (e.g., Go, Python, Node.js, Java) and understand the trade-offs between them
5. Deep knowledge of databases (both SQL & NoSQL), cashing strategies, and message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub)

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