Underdog is looking to solve the problem of building innovative games and products for American sports fans by hiring a skilled software engineer.
Requirements
- 2+ years of software engineering experience
- 1+ years of professional Ruby and Ruby on Rails development experience
- Experience in fantasy sports and/or sports betting (preferred)
- Experience building highly scalable and available systems to handle high traffic conditions with low latency (preferred)
- Experience with DataDog or Amplitude (preferred)
- Knowledge of best practices for software development
- Experience with collaborative development environments
Responsibilities
- Design and develop clean, well-structured, and performant features for fantasy and sports betting products
- Work on cutting edge projects focused on gamifying and building unique features into our fantasy and sports betting products
- Collaborate with client engineers and product stakeholders from start to finish
- Advocate for best practices to create strong foundational development practices for our growing team
- Grow in a high-agency environment where you have equity in technical decision-making and are accountable for those decisions
- Work closely with other product-minded individuals to shape and deliver the next wave of transformative fantasy and sports betting products
- Raise concerns when needed and openly communicate issues
Other
- Excellent communication, analytical, and problem solving skills with both engineers and product
- Collaborative by nature and passionate about fostering best practices for the betterment of the team
- 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
- A $500 home office allowance
- A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
- 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, and vision plan options for employees and dependents
- Sports betting licensure based on certain state regulations (may be required)
