Backend Engineer

Sleeper; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative platform is seeking experienced engineers passionate about building multi-player games and messaging products. This role involves developing scalable solutions that cater to millions of users, ensuring seamless integration with the frontend team. If you thrive in dynamic environments and enjoy tackling challenges head-on, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a rapidly growing company that values your contributions and offers competitive compensation, as you help bring an exciting product to sports fans worldwide.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering experience or impressive side projects.
• Ability to make practical decisions and thrive in ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Build multi-player games and messaging features for the platform.
• Ensure solutions are scalable to millions of users.

Skills

Engineering experience

Problem-solving

Scalability solutions

Anticipation of issues

Tools

Elixir

ScyllaDB

ErlangVM

Cassandra

Job description

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