About the role and why it’s unique:
- 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!
Who you are:
- 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
Even better if you have:
- 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