Backend Engineer Co-op, League

• We’re looking for candidates who are not only strong engineers but who actively use AI tools to accelerate learning, improve code quality, and increase impact
• Who have eperience building backend applications (academic, personal, or professional projects)
• Strong programming fundamentals (data structures, APIs, system design basics)
• Hands-on coding experience in Go or another backend language
• Understanding of databases and API design principles
• Exposure to automated testing practices
• Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants (e.g., ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.)
• Ability to effectively prompt, evaluate, and iterate with AI tools
• Demonstrated use of AI to improve productivity, code quality, debugging, or learning
• Comfort working in an AI-augmented engineering workflow
• Curiosity about how AI can improve engineering systems and processes
• We strongly prefer candidates who already integrate AI tools into their daily development workflow and can articulate how those tools improve their output
• Compliance with Information Security Policies
• Compliance with League’s secure coding practice
• Responsibility and accountability for executing League's policies and procedures
• Notification of HR, Legal, Compliance & Security of any incidents, breaches or policy violations

Desirable

• Join our Apps & Solutions Backend Engineering team and help implement the League platform for our customers
• As a Backend Engineer Co-op, you’ll gain hands-on experience designing and building production backend services, APIs, and data systems that support real users at scale
• We are an AI-forward engineering organization
• We leverage modern AI tools extensively across our development lifecycle, from design and prototyping to coding, testing, documentation, and refactoring
• This co-op is your opportunity to sharpen your backend fundamentals while working in a fast-moving, AI-enabled environment where engineering velocity and quality both matter
• You'll be designing and building REST and WebSocket APIs
• Developing scalable backend services in Go
• Building new products and integrations
• Writing clean, testable, maintainable production code
• Participating in code reviews and architectural discussions
• Improving test automation and system reliability
• Leveraging AI tools to accelerate development, debugging, documentation, and testing
• Contributing to technical design and implementation planning

• As part of your application, please record a 1-minute video answering:
• 👉 “Why do you want to work at League?”
• Upload your video to Google Drive or YouTube, and share the link in a clickable PDF with your application