[Hiring] Senior Engineer @Underdog Sports

Apr 12, 2025 - Underdog Sports is hiring a remote Senior Engineer. 💸 Salary: $150,000 - $190,000 plus equity. 📍Location: USA.

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Role Description

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!

Qualifications

A product-minded engineer with 6+ years of professional software development experience, including at least 1 year as a senior engineer.
At least 2 years of deep experience with Ruby on Rails
Familiarity with CI/CD, AWS, and modern DevOps tooling.
Strong understanding of SQL, observability (e.g., Datadog, Amplitude), and API design.
Skilled in scaling distributed systems, handling performance, caching, and database optimization.
Comfortable working across the stack and collaborating with product and design to ship great user experiences.
A clear communicator and empathetic teammate who values mentorship and feedback.

Requirements

Experience in fantasy sports or sports betting (or a strong interest!).
Worked at a company through periods of rapid growth or scale.
Experience building highly scalable and available systems to handle high traffic conditions with low latency

Benefits

Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
A $500 home office allowance
A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents

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Senior Engineer @Underdog Sports

Software Development

Salary 💸 $150,000 - $190,000 plus equity	Remote Location USA
Job Type full-time	Posted Apr 12, 2025

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📍	Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: USA
‼	Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more.