Backend Engineer, Sleeper
Risk & Trading
$150-225k
Fantasy sports app
Job no longer available
Fantasy sports app
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$150-225k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To connect people over sports.
Role
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
- 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
Desirable
- Experience with ErlangVM
- Experience with Cassandra or ScyllaDB
- Experience managing distributed systems infrastructure
What the job involves
- Sleeper is a rapidly growing platform for sports fans with messaging at its core
- Our backend consists primarily of Elixir and ScyllaDB
- 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
Our take
The popularity of being able to create fantasy teams and enjoy watching sports virtually has taken socialising around sports to a virtual level. In fact, the fantasy sports market size is expected to reach $48.6 billion by 2027. Sleeper was initially an app on which users discussed fantasy sports, but in 2017, it began hosting free fantasy football leagues, competing with sites like Yahoo. Integrating social media and sports, the company is now known to be one of the best DFS communities to hang out on.
Through substantial funding, Sleeper is expanding the game offerings on its platform and in 2022, release a new feature called Wallet that enables users to sync their preferred payment methods to the platform.
There has been consistent growth for the platform since its founding and it has successfully attracted a loyal user base.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2021
$40m
SERIES C
May 2020
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $67.3m
Company benefits
- 401k and health insurance
- Unlimited Vacations
- Regular virtual game-time with the team with company-sponsored snacks
- Company-sponsored fantasy leagues with real prizes
- Team outing every quarter and company retreat once a year
Company HQ
Paradise, NV
Leadership
Nan Wang
(Co-Founder & CEO)After studying went on to become a Senior Analyst at Fidelity Investments, Representative for China Investment Corporation and Private Equity Investor at Neuberger Berman.
Henry Leung
(Co-Founder)Worked as an Android Developer at Vevo, Senior iOS Developer at Dwell Media and Lead Mobile Engineer at Whil Concepts.
Ken Wang
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a NET Web Engineer at Genex/O’Grady Meyers, Senior C# Engineer at Decore-ative Specialties and UI Engineering Tech Lead (TV/Console Platform) at Vevo.
Weixi Yen
(Co-Founder)Worked as a Software Engineer at Kabam and then went on to work through several roles at Storm8, most recently as an Engineering Manager.
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