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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

• We’re Underdog, the fastest-growing sports gaming company ever. • We build innovative games, products, and experiences for American sports fans. • Join us to shake up the fastest growing industry with bold ideas and tech. • Work on cutting edge projects focused on gamifying and building unique features. • Design and develop clean, well-structured, and performant features. • Collaborate with client engineers and product stakeholders. • Advocate for best practices to create strong foundational development practices. • Learn from some of the best engineers and leaders in fantasy and sports betting.

🎯 Requirements

• A product-minded engineer with 6+ years of professional software development experience, including at least 1 year as a senior engineer. • At least 2 years of deep experience with Ruby on Rails • Familiarity with CI/CD, AWS, and modern DevOps tooling. • Strong understanding of SQL, observability (e.g., Datadog, Amplitude), and API design. • Skilled in scaling distributed systems, handling performance, caching, and database optimization. • Comfortable working across the stack and collaborating with product and design to ship great user experiences. • A clear communicator and empathetic teammate who values mentorship and feedback.

🏖️ 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