Sr. Software Engineer (Backend)
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
San Francisco CA
$200000 $400000 Base Competitive Equity
Open to Visa Transfers OPT and H-1B transfers
Growth Stage / Venture-Backed Founded 2020
On-site 5 days per week in-person at the San Francisco office
Not specified
Were building at the intersection of technology entertainment and culture creating consumer products that bring real money into experiences people already love.
Our platform powers multiple consumer products across gaming and collectibles with both products ranking #1 in their respective App Store categories. The platform processes billions of dollars in volume annually serves millions of users generates hundreds of millions in revenue and is profitable while continuing to grow at 10x year over year.
The team is small highly ambitious and made up of people from diverse backgrounds including quantitative trading game development art entertainment and consumer technology. Engineers have the opportunity to build systems and experiences that will be used by millions of people while working on the financial infrastructure supporting massive transaction volume.
With more than $65M raised from leading investors the company is building toward a large-scale entertainment platform that combines real-money mechanics with novel consumer experiences.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Backend team youll take significant ownership over the engineering system and drive projects from idea through completion.
Youll work on consumer-facing features complex data-driven systems and the engineering infrastructure that allows a fast-growing team to ship quickly and reliably.
- Build backend systems powering consumer-facing products used by millions of users
- Develop features that directly impact core business and product metrics
- Own projects from technical design through implementation testing deployment and iteration
- Work closely with Product Growth Design and Engineering to turn ideas into high-quality experiences
- Build reliable systems capable of supporting significant transaction and user volume
- Design and implement solutions to complex data-driven problems
- Work on systems such as optimal matchmaking anti-fraud and other high-scale platform challenges
- Build services and infrastructure that support real-money consumer experiences
- Identify technical bottlenecks and opportunities to improve system performance reliability and scalability
- Make thoughtful architectural decisions as the platform and user base continue to grow
- Improve engineering processes and systems so the team can ship faster
- Build and iterate on experimentation platforms
- Improve CI/CD and developer tooling
- Identify opportunities to automate repetitive engineering workflows
- Raise the technical bar through strong engineering practices code quality and thoughtful system design
- Take on increasing ownership as the company and engineering organization grow
- 38 years of professional backend software engineering experience
- Strong track record of independently driving projects to completion
- Experience building and operating production backend systems
- Experience working in fast-moving startup or high-growth environments
- Demonstrated ability to take ownership beyond narrowly defined responsibilities
- Comfortable continuously expanding scope and taking on additional responsibility
- Strong backend software engineering fundamentals
- Strong experience with Go or another modern backend language with Go strongly preferred
- Experience building production APIs and backend services
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and scalable architecture
- Experience with AWS or another major cloud platform
- Experience with Kubernetes or containerized production environments
- Strong database and data modeling fundamentals
- Experience with testing CI/CD and engineering productivity tooling
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
- Ability to design systems that are reliable scalable and maintainable
- Professional Go experience
- Experience with AWS
- Kubernetes / k8s experience
- Experience building high-scale consumer products
- Experience with real-time systems or high-volume transaction platforms
- Experience with fraud detection risk systems payments financial technology or marketplaces
- Experience solving complex data-driven problems
- Experience building experimentation platforms
- Experience improving CI/CD and developer infrastructure
- Experience in gaming entertainment collectibles or other consumer technology
- Extremely high ownership and agency
- Strong bias toward action and execution
- Comfortable operating with significant autonomy
- Naturally looks for opportunities to take on more responsibility
- Strong product and business awareness
- Pragmatic and highly resourceful
- Comfortable in a small fast-moving organization
- Strong communicator and collaborator
- Motivated by continuous learning and growth
- Thrives in a high-performance high-expectation environment
- $200000 $400000 base salary depending on experience and qualifications
- Competitive equity
- Full-time position
- On-site work environment 5 days per week in San Francisco
- Open to visa transfers including OPT and H-1B transfers
- Build consumer products used by millions of people
- Work on systems processing billions in annual volume
- Solve technically challenging problems across matchmaking anti-fraud scalability and real-time systems
- Join a profitable rapidly growing company with 10x year-over-year growth
- Work with an unusually diverse and high-caliber team spanning technology gaming finance art and entertainment
- Have significant ownership over the engineering system and product
- Work in a high-agency environment where strong performers are given increasing responsibility
- Build technology at the intersection of entertainment culture and financial infrastructure
Required Experience:
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