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Sleeper is a rapidly growing platform for sports fans with messaging at its core. Our backend consists primarily of Elixir and ScyllaDB. We are looking for experienced engineers who have a passion for building multi-player games or messaging products to help us bring Sleeper to the rest of the world.
What you’ll be doing
Building multi-player games, messaging, and/or core platform features
Ensuring your solutions are scalable to millions of users
Work with frontend team to deliver products to end users
Who you are
Impressive side project or 3+ years of engineering experience
You make practical decisions and trade-offs
You thrive in ambiguous environments
You are good at anticipating things that can go wrong
When things do go wrong, you act calm and think rationally
Preferred skills (not required)
Experience with ErlangVM
Experience with Cassandra or ScyllaDB
Experience managing distributed systems infrastructure
Sleeper believes in fair and equitable pay. Certain locations in the United States require job postings to include a reasonable estimate of the base salary range and/or a general description of benefits and other compensation applicable to the role. For this role in those locations, the base salary range for new hires is:
Annualized Base Pay Range: 150K - 225K
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