Underdog Fantasy

Senior Backend Engineer, C++

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 PlatformKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesTerraform

About the role

  • Design the future of sports entertainment.
  • Deliver best in class features and performance.
  • Build a winning engineering culture.
  • Champion development best practices.
  • Collaborate to shape the product vision.
  • Research new technologies.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience building microservices heavy backend systems in a cloud environment (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Advanced proficiency with C++
  • 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
  • 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

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
C++microservicescloud environmentDockerKubernetesECSKafkaFlinkKinesisCI/CD
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationinfluenceresults-orientedentrepreneurial mindset