Underdog Fantasy

Senior Backend Engineer – Python

Underdog Fantasy

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $160,000 - $240,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesPythonSQL

About the role

  • 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

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Hard skills
PythonSQLmicroservicesrecommendation systemsAPIscontainerizationorchestrationDockerKubernetesreal time data processing
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationinnovationcreativityresults-orientedinfluenceteam alignmentproblem-solvingadaptability