FloSports is looking to solve the problem of delivering a world-class sports media experience to passionate sports fans by investing in its ever-expanding ecosystem and creating a home for college conferences/leagues and sports.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in backend or data engineering, including 2+ years in a people management or tech lead role.
- Strong understanding of modern event-driven microservices and real-time stream processing architectures.
- Strong backend engineering experience (we primarily use TypeScript and Node.js).
- Experience deploying and managing production systems on AWS.
- Proficiency with CI/CD processes and observability best practices.
- Bonus: Experience with AWS serverless (SST/CDK/Terraform), DynamoDB, OpenSearch, and stream processing (Kinesis, DynamoDB Streams).
- Demonstrated ability to balance technical depth with delivery, driving pragmatic solutions at scale.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow backend and data engineers (4-6 direct reports) through coaching, feedback, and career development.
- Oversee the design and implementation of reliable and scalable backend and data services that power FloSports’ platform.
- Drive predictable delivery on team OKRs, balancing new feature work, reliability, and technical debt.
- Collaborate with product, design, QA and infrastructure teams to define technical priorities and execution plans.
- Maintain high engineering standards through code reviews, architecture discussions, and documentation.
- Contribute to the evolution of engineering processes that emphasize autonomy, ownership, and measurable impact.
- Provide hands-on guidance when needed - from debugging distributed systems to reviewing architecture proposals.
Other
- Excellent communication skills, able to clearly convey complex ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Passion for mentoring engineers and fostering high-performing, collaborative teams.
- Recognized three years in a row as a Top Workplace by the Austin-American Statesman
- Flexibility at work - you can take control of your profession and personal schedule
- Annual equity awards for all top performers
