Staff Software Engineer – Backend

🕒 Setembro 17, 2025

🏄 California, Nevada, +1 estados a mais – Remoto

🏄 California – Remote 🎰 Nevada – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $225.000 - $300.000 / ano

⏰ Tempo Integral

🔴 Especialista

🔙 Engenheiro Backend

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Sleeper

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11 - 50 funcionários

🎮 Jogos

⚽ Esportes

Gaming • Sports

Sleeper é uma plataforma líder de fantasy sports, oferecendo uma variedade de jogos fantasy, incluindo Fantasy Football, Fantasy Basketball e Fantasy League of Legends (LCS). Com milhões de usuários, o Sleeper permite que os jogadores participem de ligas, façam draft de times e compitam em jogos sazonais. A plataforma oferece modos de jogo populares como Redraft, Auction e Dynasty, e é conhecida por sua experiência envolvente na web, no iPad e em dispositivos mobile. O Sleeper também traz funcionalidades voltadas para a comunidade, como canais de chat e alertas de notícias, tornando-o uma plataforma completa para entusiastas de fantasy sports.

Descrição

• Design and build core backend systems that power Sleeper's games and real-time user experiences—fantasy contests, Sleeper Picks, user profiles, leaderboards, and more. • Architect scalable, distributed systems capable of handling millions of concurrent users with low latency and high availability. • Lead backend initiatives from concept to deployment, ensuring clean interfaces, well-documented services, and resilient infrastructure. • Optimize system performance and proactively address bottlenecks through monitoring, profiling, and capacity planning. • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and frontend teams to deliver features that users love. • Mentor engineers, provide thoughtful code reviews, and shape backend engineering best practices and standards. • Drive innovation, technical direction, and team culture as a key engineering voice at the leadership level.

🎯 Requisitos

• 7+ years of backend software engineering experience, including experience in staff-level or tech lead roles. • Proven ability to design and scale distributed systems that serve millions of users in real-time or gaming environments. • Strong proficiency in one or more backend languages (e.g., Go, Python, Node.js, Java), and an understanding of trade-offs between them. • Deep knowledge of databases (both SQL and NoSQL), caching strategies, and message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub). • Comfortable designing and maintaining RESTful and/or graphql APIs, data models, and internal tooling. • Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or similar), with familiarity with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes a plus). • Strong product mindset—you care about the why, not just the how, and you build with users in mind. • Excellent communication and collaboration skills. You elevate your teammates and enjoy mentoring. • Bonus: Passion for sports, gaming, or building multiplayer or real-time systems.

🏖️ Benefícios

• Competitive salary ($225,000–$300,000/year not inclusive of stock options and benefits) • Equity • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance • 401(k) with company matching • Generous PTO and flexible remote work policy • Opportunities for fast career growth in a high-impact role • A small, focused team where your contributions truly matter