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Backend Engineer

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: 130K~180K