Senior Lead Software Engineer, Jackpocket
Elixir
$170-185k
Lottery app
Job no longer available
Lottery app
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$170-185k
101-200 employees
Company mission
Jackpocket’s mission is to create a more convenient, fun, and responsible way to play the lottery.
Role
Who you are
- 7-8+ years as a Software Engineer or a comparable position working with highly scalable systems
- Experience with Elixir
- Experience with full lifecycle design, development, testing, through to deployment
- Hands-on experience with event-driven systems like RabbitMQ or Kafka
- Proficiency with Liveview
- Proficiency with SQL and knowledge of RDBMs such as Postgres
- Experience with multi-threading, concurrency, and building resilient systems
- Knowledge of functional programming and architectural design principles
- Able to diagnose live systems and trace errors
What the job involves
- As a member of Jackpocket’s Fulfillment Tech Team, you will help the company scale its fulfillment systems as it introduces new products and expands into new markets
- We’re looking for an experienced and collaborative engineer who can contribute on a strategic level to mission critical initiatives to improve and scale Jackpocket’s tech infrastructure as the business continues rapid growth
- Work alongside developers and SRE to ensure that the system is stable and scaling as designed
- Work with the fulfillment operations team, retailers, and the product team to implement requirements
- Document operations policies and instructions to aid in troubleshooting
- Participate in the architectural evolution of the Jackpocket system
- Profile systems to determine bottlenecks and to forecast system capacity
- Provide support to local lottery fulfillment operations to ensure live systems are performing properly
- Own the scoping and execution of major features from start to finish
Our take
Buying lottery tickets is expected to be a $450 billion global industry by 2027, and the process is going mobile. This is benefitting younger generations of lottery buyers as many considered the old-fashioned purchasing process to be inaccessible.
Jackpocket was founded in 2013 and was the first third-party lottery app in the US that allowed customers to buy official state lottery tickets digitally. Its platform enables the purchasing of tickets for lotteries such as Powerball and Mega Millions across twelve US states.
The company has raised $200 million in funding rounds to date and plans to continue expanding the range of lotteries and states that are supported. It benefits from increased attention and downloads when jackpots reach millions, and it is likely that the company will only continue to grow its partner, employee and customer base due to this.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2021
$120m
SERIES D
Feb 2021
$50m
SERIES C
Total funding: $199.8m
Company benefits
- 401(k) Matching
- Stock Options
- Health Insurance Coverage up to 100%
- Career Growth and Promotion from Within
- Commuter Benefits
- Citi Bike Membership
- Discounted Gym Membership
- Flexible Work Schedule
- Stocked Kitchen & Catered Lunches
- Cold Brew & More on Tap
Company values
- The Golden Rule works
- Think outside the box
- Design is not a luxury
- Persistence is irreplaceable
- Laughter has no accent
- You're an owner!
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Peter Sullivan
(CEO )Attained a Bachelors in Economics and International Business from Vilanova and Rutgers Universities, and a Masters in Finance at Stockholm University. Also founded Tripl in 2009.
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