Backend Engineer

4 Months ago • 3 Years + • Backend Development • $150,000 PA - $225,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Sleeper is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to build and maintain its rapidly growing platform. Responsibilities include building multi-player games, messaging systems, and core platform features, ensuring scalability for millions of users, and collaborating with the frontend team. The ideal candidate has a strong background in building scalable systems, ideally with experience in multiplayer games or messaging products. The role requires making practical decisions, thriving in ambiguous environments, and anticipating and rationally handling issues. Experience with ErlangVM, Cassandra, ScyllaDB, and distributed systems is preferred but not required.
Must have:
  • 3+ years of engineering experience
  • Build multi-player games/messaging
  • Scalable solutions for millions of users
  • Collaboration with frontend team
  • Practical decision-making
  • Thrive in ambiguous environments
  • Calm and rational problem-solving
Good to have:
  • Experience with ErlangVM
  • Experience with Cassandra or ScyllaDB
  • Experience managing distributed systems infrastructure

Job Details

Sleeper is a rapidly growing platform for sports fans with messaging at its core. Our backend consists primarily of Elixir and ScyllaDB. 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.

What you’ll be doing

  • 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

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

Preferred skills (not required)

  • Experience with ErlangVM

  • Experience with Cassandra or ScyllaDB

  • Experience managing distributed systems infrastructure

Sleeper believes in fair and equitable pay. Certain locations in the United States require job postings to include a reasonable estimate of the base salary range and/or a general description of benefits and other compensation applicable to the role. For this role in those locations, the base salary range for new hires is:

Annualized Base Pay Range: 150K - 225K

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