Senior Backend Engineer – Go
Underdog Fantasy
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $160,000 - $240,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesMicroservicesTerraform
About the role
- 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 Senior Backend Engineer with at least 5 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
GomicroservicesAPIsbackend systemscloud environmentDevOpsCI/CDinfrastructure-as-codeTerraformCDK
Soft skills
communicationleadershipcollaborationmentorshipresults-orientedproblem-solvinginfluenceteamworkadaptabilityinitiative