As a Software Engineer, you will develop features for fantasy sports and betting products, collaborate with teams, and advocate for best practices.
At Underdog, we make sports more fun.
Our thesis is simple: build the best products and we’ll build the biggest company in the space, because there’s so much more to be built for sports fans. We’re just over five years in, and we’re one of the fastest-growing sports companies ever, most recently valued at $1.3B. And it’s still the early days.
We’ve built and scaled multiple games and products across fantasy sports, sports betting, and prediction markets, all united in one seamless, simple, easy to use, intuitive and fun app.
Underdog isn’t for everyone. One of our core values is give a sh*t. The people who win here are the ones who care, push, and perform. If that’s you, come join us.
Winning as an Underdog is more fun.
- Work on cutting edge projects focused on gamifying and building unique features into our fantasy and sports betting products
- Design and develop clean, well-structured, and performant features — your work will be used by millions of our customers
- Work closely with other product-minded individuals to shape and deliver the next wave of transformative fantasy and sports betting products
- Collaborate with client engineers and product stakeholders from start to finish, openly communicating issues, asking clarifying questions, and raising concerns when needed
- 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
- Learn from some of the best engineers and leaders in the fantasy and sports betting world while bringing your own unique perspective; we elevate each other to make Underdog the best sports gaming platform now and for the future!
- Product-minded engineer with 2+ years of software engineering experience
- Passionate about software development, with 1+ years of professional Ruby and Ruby on Rails development experience
- Collaborative by nature and passionate about fostering best practices for the betterment of the team
- Excellent communication, analytical, and problem solving skills with both engineers and product
- Experience in fantasy sports and/or sports betting
- Worked through a significant growth phase of a company
- Built dashboards in or spent time grokking info from DataDog or Amplitude
- Experience building highly scalable and available systems to handle high traffic conditions with low latency
Our target starting base salary range for this position is between $135,000 and $150,000, plus target equity. The starting base salary will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate’s skills and experience, among other things.
- 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
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This position may require sports betting licensure based on certain state regulations.
Underdog is an equal opportunity employer and doesn't discriminate on the basis of creed, race, sexual orientation, gender, age, disability status, or any other defining characteristic.
Top Skills
Amplitude
Datadog
Ruby
Ruby On Rails
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