Remote Senior Software Developer

Summary

Join theScore as a Senior Software Developer on the ESPN Ecosystem team and enhance the cross-app experience between ESPN and ESPN BET platforms. Collaborate with design, product, frontend, and backend development teams to define and deliver a first-class sports betting experience.

Requirements

• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, distributed systems, algorithms and software design
• Experience with a production system at scale
• Experience with on-call rotations for a production service
• Passionate about clean code architecture and software craftsmanship
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate clearly with various stakeholders, add and maintain documentation and work with other team members
• Experience with modern web framework and API development (Phoenix, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Django, Laravel, Node)
• A strong grasp and experience with relational databases; including PostgreSQL
• Comfortable working in the terminal
• Experience with Git and GitHub or similar
• Proficiency within an editor of your choice
• Experience with testing frameworks such as ExUnit, RSpec, Jest, pytest or equivalent
• A strong grasp and experience with relational databases; including PostgreSQL and MySQL
• Experience with background job processing (Oban, Exq, Sidekiq, Celery, Beanstalk)
• Experience with asynchronous event handling infrastructure (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS/SNS, Google Cloud Pub/Sub)

Responsibilities

• Work with our preferred technology stack (Primarily Java, Elixir, Phoenix, Phoenix LiveView)
• Develop, scale, and optimize gRPC endpoints, GraphQL APIs, and SQL queries
• Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity
• Navigate through highly sensitive and regulated systems in our codebase; ensuring highest level of code quality and test coverage
• Collaborate with the team in a system designed to continually define and improve our internal style guide, maintainability and best practices
• Participate in the design, architecture, and delivery of new features in a collaborative, agile/scrum environment
• Collaborate with other teams and various stakeholders to build integrations with other internal services
• Setting up monitoring and alerting with DataDog, Bugsnag, PagerDuty, Splunk
• Continually strive and be on the lookout for a more scalable system by identifying bottlenecks and areas of high risk
• Provide mentorship for education to all our developers when onboarding on our services

Preferred Qualifications

NICE TO HAVE : Experience with Kubernetes, Kafka, building GraphQL APIs (Absinthe), hexagonal architecture, Domain Driven Development, contribution to open source software, experience working at startups, passion for sports and/or esports

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Fun, relaxed work environment
• Education and conference reimbursements
• Parental leave top up