Backend Engineer

November 25

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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

• Build the backbone of Underdog’s data ecosystem—design and deploy internal APIs and workflows that power seamless communication across our services. • Create robust, scalable microservices to serve real-time, high-volume data needs for our internal teams, enabling faster decision-making and better fan experiences. • Own greenfield projects that shape the future of our business—architecting backend systems built for scale, resilience, and speed. • Partner cross-functionally with engineers, product owners, and data scientists to turn complex challenges into elegant, scalable solutions. • Safeguard system reliability by building smart monitoring, alerting, and logging tools that keep our infrastructure healthy and performant. • Drive impactful technical initiatives from start to finish in a fast-moving, high-stakes environment where your leadership makes a real difference. • Champion engineering excellence by leading code reviews, sharing best practices, and helping level up the team through mentorship and feedback.

🎯 Requirements

• A Backend Engineer with 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) • Advanced proficiency with Go • 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 • 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 • 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