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Underdog Fantasy

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Gaming • Sports • B2C

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.

201 - 500 employees

🎮 Gaming

⚽ Sports

👥 B2C

📋 Description

• Design the future of sports entertainment. • Shape the development of cutting-edge data platform solutions that provides seamless, engaging, and scalable experiences for millions of sports fans globally • Deliver best in class features and performance. • Prioritize, execute, and oversee core initiatives that drive innovation and ensure data platform reliability at scale • Build a winning engineering culture. • Cultivate a collaborative, innovative environment that thrives on technical excellence, creativity, and shared passion for delivering impactful products • Champion development best practices. • Advocate for and implement engineering best practices, ensuring the team aligns with industry standards and maintains a high-quality codebase • Collaborate to shape the product vision. • Partner closely with data scientists and engineering leads to define features, plan delivery, and drive the development process from ideation to launch • Research new technologies. • Research and keep up to date on emerging technologies and trends and focus on iteratively implementing them into Underdog’s data platform systems

🎯 Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience building microservices heavy backend systems in a cloud environment (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure) • Advanced proficiency with Python and SQL • Prior experience building recommendation systems and APIs for surfacing model outputs • Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, or ECS • Experience with real time data processing frameworks such as Kafka, Flink, or Kinesis • Highly focused on delivering results for internal and external stakeholders in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment • Excellent leadership and communication skills with ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO for full-time employees (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season) • 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave • Home office stipend • 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