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Technical Lead, Backend

GreenPark Sports
Bay Area (Burlingame) / Remote OK (PST Friendly)
3 years ago
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What We Do:

Founded by an incredible entrepreneurial team, including the Co-Founder and former CEO of YouTube, the Founder and former CEO of Zappos, and the Co-Founder and Chief Creative for BLITZ Agency - our current CEO, GreenPark is the first sports and esports metaverse where fans connect, compete, and level up with one another. Here, you suit up, get recruited by your favorite team and go head-to-head against your rivals in epic battles. Now you can prove, once and for all, that you are the MVF (Most Valuable Fan)! Make game predictions, play mini games, and join a virtual Watch Party to cheer on your favorite team. Collect digital trading cards of your favorite players, level them up, unlock rewards, challenge friends to mini games and deck your Greenie out in your best gear. We are currently partnering with Riot Games, the LCS, NBA, La Liga with other esports & sports leagues coming soon.

What you'll do:

  • Contribute to the development of team best practices and standards that drive every day technology decisions; drive and uphold operational excellence through those best practices
  • Mentor team members through leading-by-doing and hands-on delivery support
  • Drive key decisions on software architecture and technology roadmap while balancing longevity with rapid prototyping
  • Create system design models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to team members
  • Lead the agile software development process, including planning, cross-team coordination, task assignments, code reviews, and design sign-off
  • Split your time between leading the direction of the backend team while also being an active contributor to the code base and feature/system development

Requirements:

  • 2+ years writing Go code and familiarity with design patterns for Go, its shortcomings and differences from other languages
  • Experience working with cloud based production systems (AWS, Google Cloud or Azure) that are part of an “always on” live environment, including capacity planning, scalability, and keeping high traffic systems live.
  • Willing to “get your hands dirty” as an individual contributor, cut code and lead-by-example but also know when to step back and let the team drive solutions forward.
  • Great product sense and ability to break problems down into their simplest current requirements - you can rapidly iterate on systems to meet the needs of today, while being able to plan for tomorrow too.
  • Bachelors in Engineering a plus

What We Offer:

  • Opportunity: With a small, core team of talented people, iterating and scaling fast, you’ll be hands-on, collaborating and learning right away
  • Locations: Although our headquarters is in Los Angeles, we are currently a remote workforce in California, Washington, Texas, North Carolina, Nevada and New York. Flex work options coming in 2022
  • Culture: We strive to be welcoming and inclusive. As an early team member, you’ll be active in recruiting decisions ensuring we build a culture you want to be part of
  • Salary: A competitive salary with stock options
  • Benefits: Currently offering employee-created benefits covering Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, LTD/STD, FSA, Dependent Care FSA, Life Insurance, EAP and home office stipend
  • Time-Off: Flexible PTO

Who We Are:

Sports is more than a game, and so are we. Genuine collaboration, integrity and heartfelt camaraderie is what makes us a true team. We believe in the success of our company, partner relations and that our player community must ultimately be driven by the strength of our inclusivity, diversity and integrity. We believe that we must be the global community that we are building for. This is what creates the Future of Fandom. This is what makes us GreenPark.

Where You Can Find Us:

Try GreenPark for yourself and let us know what you think! Check us out on the app stores: iOS & Android

Check out our website to get even more details on who we are and what’s coming! https://greenparksports.com/

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