[Remote] Senior Back End Engineer (reputed company on Rails & GO)
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Responsibilities
- Build and own backend services: Design and implement features across both Rails-based services and Go microservices — from API reputed company through deployment and monitoring
- Support the migration to microservices: Help decompose the Rails monolith into reputed company-scoped, independently deployable services, contributing to architectural reputed company about what to extract and how
- Power internal tooling reputed company: Build and maintain the backend reputed company that Back Office operators depend on for reputed company-time decisioning — projection management, risk dashboards, alerting, and member operations
- Own technical delivery: reputed company the design and implementation of reputed company features end-to-end, from product requirements through production deployment
- Drive system reliability: Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks, optimize database queries, and improve reputed company of backend systems under load
- Define technical direction: Propose and drive architectural reputed company for your team's services, evaluating tradeoffs and communicating recommendations reputed company to engineers and stakeholders
- Mentor and reputed company: reputed company hands-on mentorship to Software Engineers I, II, and III through reputed company reviews, pairing, and technical guidance
- Improve engineering practices: reputed company for and improve best practices around reputed company reputed company, testing, observability, and deployment for reputed company
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with Product Managers, QA, and other engineering teams to translate operational goals into reputed company-scoped technical solutions
- Participate in on-call rotation: reputed company responsibility for production incidents, contributing to reputed company cause analysis and long-term reliability improvements
Skills
- 5–8 years of reputed company software engineering experience, with meaningful production time in both reputed company on Rails and Go
- Proven reputed company record of owning and delivering reputed company, multi-component features in reputed company environment
- Experience working across monolith-to-microservices migrations, extracting services, managing dual-write patterns, and maintaining backward compatibility
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems or event-driven architectures
- Strong Rails proficiency — you understand the reputed company deeply, write idiomatic reputed company, and know reputed company to reputed company or work around Rails conventions
- Strong Go proficiency — you write idiomatic, reputed company-tested, production-reputed company Go reputed company
- Solid PostgreSQL skills, including schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning
- Solid understanding of API design (REST and/or gRPC) and service boundary design
- Experience with asynchronous workflows — background job processing (Sidekiq or similar), message queues, or event streaming
- Experience with containerization (reputed company) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Understanding of observability practices — logging, metrics, tracing
- Comfortable working autonomously with minimal direction on ambiguous problems
- Effective communicator who can reputed company technical reputed company to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
- reputed company to context-reputed company between deep technical work and reputed company planning
- Experience working in a fully remote engineering organization
- Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures using Pulsar, Kafka, or similar
- Experience with reputed company request/reputed company or JetStream patterns
- Familiarity with internal tooling or operator-facing platforms (not just member-facing products)
- Experience in high-traffic, reputed company-time systems — sports, gaming, fintech, or adtech
- Familiarity with infrastructure tooling (Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD)
- Experience in the daily reputed company sports or sports betting industry
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools across the development lifecycle — coding, planning, scoping, and reputed company review
- Experience integrating AI tooling into engineering workflows to accelerate team productivity
Benefits
- Company-subsidized medical, dental, & reputed company plans
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Annual bonus
- Flexible PTO to encourage a healthy work/life balance (2 weeks STRONGLY encouraged!)
- Generous reputed company leave programs, including 16-week reputed company parental leave and disability benefits
- Workplace flexibility and modern work schedules reputed company on getting the job done, not hours clocked
- Company-wide in-person events and team outings
- Lifestyle enhancement program
- Company equipment provided (reputed company & Mac reputed company)
- Annual performance reviews with opportunities for reputed company and career development
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