Backend Engineer at Sleeper

Feedinkoo; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Feedinkoo is looking for experienced engineers passionate about building multi-player games or messaging products. You will work on scalable solutions for millions of users and collaborate with the frontend team.

A successful candidate will have at least 3 years of engineering experience, with a strong capacity for making practical decisions and handling ambiguous situations calmly. The position offers a competitive salary range of $150K – $225K annually based on location.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering experience or impressive side projects.
• Strong decision-making and trade-off evaluation skills.
• Ability to work in ambiguous environments.
• Calm and rational problem-solving skills in crises.

Responsibilities

• Build multi-player games and messaging features.
• Ensure scalability for million+ users.
• Collaborate with frontend team for product delivery.

Skills

Multi-player game development

Messaging product development

Scalability solutions

Team collaboration

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