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Backend Engineer

Reposted 21 Days Ago
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
150K-225K
Mid level
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
150K-225K
Mid level
As a Backend Engineer at Sleeper, you will build scalable multi-player games and messaging features, collaborating with the frontend team.
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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

Top Skills

Elixir
Scylladb

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