Senior Engineer - Rails (Originals)
Published on June 29, 2024
Founded by a team of industry veterans, Underdog was born with the idea that bringing strategic innovation to sports gaming and entertainment is the key to success in an exceptionally competitive market. Underdog has quickly established itself as a leader in the space, and is committed to building the best sports gaming platform in the industry -- and supporting the most passionate community of sports fans while doing it!
At Underdog, we’re not only about creating these awesome products, but also about growing our culture of passion, ownership, and fun! We believe that great companies are made out of great people. Our continual aim is to create an inclusive environment for everyone, at all levels, to achieve their highest potential at work.
Hi, we’re Underdog!
We’re the fastest-growing sports gaming company ever.
We build innovative games and products for American sports fans.
Founded in 2020, our team built four of today’s most widely played fantasy games and recently launched our Underdog Sportsbook. We are the only sportsbook to ever launch on our own home grown technology, which allows us to build different and innovative experiences. We believe there’s so much more to be built for sports fans, and we’ll continue to win by building the best products and experiences for our customers.
The opportunity in front of us to become the biggest company in our space is massive; after all, we’re currently sitting in the fastest-growing consumer industry in the U.S. In just over two years, we reached a nearly $500 million valuation through some of the best investors in the game, including Mark Cuban, Kevin Durant, BlackRock, and SV Angel. We are many times larger now and our growth is not slowing down.
At Underdog, we believe that sports are for everyone and are building a tomorrow for every fan. Want to help create that future? Join us.
About the role and why it's unique:
- Work on bespoke projects focused on gamifying and building unique features into our fantasy and sports betting products
- Design and develop clean, well-structured, and maintainable code to build new backend features
- Collaborate with the team and product stakeholders from start to finish, openly communicating issues, asking clarifying questions, raising concerns when needed
- Develop a deep understanding of our product infrastructure and how we deploy our software
- Advocate for best practices to create strong foundational development practices for our growing team
- Be open to feedback and collaboration with other developers to accomplish tasks at hand
Who you are:
- Product Minded Engineer with 7+ years of software engineering experience
- Strong Programming Experience with Ruby, Ruby on Rails
- Experience building highly scalable, available distributed systems to handle high traffic conditions with low latency
- Excellent communication, analytical, and problem solving skills with both engineers and product
Even better if you have...
- Proficiency working in AWS or other cloud infrastructures like GCP or Azure
- Understanding of CI/CD, unit testing, integration testing
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL
- Experience with Microservices
- Experience with REST services and API design
Our targeted compensation rate for this position is between $150,000 and $180,000, depending on experience, plus equity. Think your skills are exceptional and warrant higher pay? Apply anyway! If we agree, we're willing to negotiate.
This position may require sports betting licensure based on certain state regulations.
Underdog is an equal opportunity employer and doesn't discriminate on the basis of creed, race, sexual orientation, gender, age, disability status, or any other defining characteristic.
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