PlayOn is looking to evolve the technology that powers live event access across high school and youth sports by designing and delivering scalable backend systems that process millions of tickets annually, ensure smooth game-day experiences, and empower schools to focus on what matters most.
Requirements
- 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience, including designing and maintaining backend systems at scale.
- Strong skills in Java and familiarity with PostgreSQL or other relational databases.
- Experience with AWS services such as CloudFront, RDS, S3, EKS/ECS, SQS/SNS, and familiarity with event streaming tools like Kafka.
- Deep understanding of API design, microservices architecture, and distributed systems.
- Solid understanding of observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident management.
- Experience integrating with Stripe or similar payment platforms preferred.
- Familiarity with modern data pipelines and orchestration tools (e.g. Snowflake, Tinybird, Estuary, Dagster) preferred.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate APIs and microservices that power ticket creation, checkout, redemption, and reporting.
- Integrate with Stripe and other third-party systems to enable secure, scalable payments, redemptions, and refunds.
- Contribute to architectural decisions, RFCs, and design reviews for both new and existing services.
- Collaborate with data, cloud engineering, QA, and product teams to deliver robust, high-quality features.
- Identify and eliminate bottlenecks through performance tuning, load testing, and data-driven scaling.
- Mentor 3–4 full-time engineers and several contractors, helping guide technical direction and development best practices.
- Participate in interviews, refine coding standards, and strengthen our engineering culture.
Other
- Ownership over Participation- You take responsibility for achieving holistic outcomes, prioritize key objectives, and adapt quickly when situations require a different approach. You follow through even against the toughest challenges.
- Team over Stars- You are a bridge builder, establishing processes and relationships with teams outside your own. You work to rally around common goals, find win-win solutions, compromise when necessary, and help others succeed.
- Growth over Comfort- You are driven by a desire to grow and actively seek opportunities to expand your comfort zone, skills, and confidence. You embrace new challenges with curiosity, accepting discomfort and failure as opportunities to learn.
- Fairness over Popularity- You approach decisions with a scientist’s mindset, challenging your assumptions and remaining objective. You consider long-term impact rather than relying on short-term gains, proactively seek others’ perspectives, and manage emotions in decision-making.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills—you thrive in cross-functional environments with product, design, and operations.
