Backend Engineer

January 11

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Underdog Fantasy

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Underdog Fantasy is a company specializing in fantasy sports and sports betting. Despite the technical issue mentioned in the text, it provides a platform where users can engage in fantasy sports contests, draft teams, and potentially win prizes based on the performance of real-world athletes. The company's focus is on providing a fun and competitive experience for sports fans who want to test their skills and luck in fantasy leagues and sports-related betting.

sports • gaming • fantasy

201 - 500 employees

🎮 Gaming

⚽ Sports

👥 B2C

📋 Description

• As a Backend Engineer on the Data Platform team, you’ll be developing and deploying internal APIs and workflows to enable seamless integration between Underdog’s internal services • Design, develop, and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices to enable efficient data retrieval and processing for internal applications • Greenfield and develop new backend systems for scalability, fault tolerance, and performance for a core part of Underdog’s future business • Collaborate with engineers, product owners, and data scientists to understand requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions • Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging mechanisms to ensure the health and accuracy of Underdog’s engineering systems • Lead technical initiatives and drive results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment • Lead code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and evangelize best practices to maintain code quality

🎯 Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience building microservices heavy backend systems and APIs for internal applications on a cloud environment (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure) • Experience building and scaling backend systems and designing enterprise scale APIs for external and internal applications • Highly focused on delivering results for internal and external stakeholders in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment • Excellent communication skills with ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, or ECS • Advanced proficiency with Go, C++, Rust, or other similar programming languages (at least 2) • Intermediate proficiency with SQL • Experience with DevOps practices such as CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform, CDK)

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season) • 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave • A $500 home office allowance • A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce • 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents