Remote Senior Software Developer

Summary

Join theScore team as a Backend Engineer and contribute to delivering amazing digital media and sports betting products. Work with a team of smart engineers, product managers, and designers to develop scalable APIs, participate in design and delivery of new features, and learn from modern technologies.

Requirements

• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, distributed systems, algorithms and software design
• Passionate about clean code architecture and software craftsmanship
• Experience with modern web framework and API development (Phoenix, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Django, Node)
• Experience with Git and GitHub or similar
• A strong grasp and experience with relational databases; including PostgreSQL and MySql
• Experience with background job processing (Exq, Sidekiq, Celery, Beanstalk, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Comfortable working in the terminal
• Proficiency within an editor of your choice
• Experience with testing frameworks such as ExUnit, RSpec, Jest, pytest or equivalent
• Experience working with profiling tools
• Knowledge and familiarity with caching strategies and tools
• Consuming and integrating with third party APIs

Responsibilities

• Develop, scale, and optimize amazing GraphQL, RESTful APIs and gRPC as required by individual services
• Be part of our backend service teams supporting web and mobile clients
• Participate in the design, architecture, and delivery of new features in a collaborative agile/scrum environment
• Other duties as required

Preferred Qualifications

Elixir, building GraphQL APIs (Absinthe), GraphQL schema stitching & subscriptions, GCP, Kubernetes, JavaScript SSR, contribution to open source software, experience working at startups, passion for sports and/or esports

Benefits

• Ship features that impact millions of users
• Work on large distributed systems spanning public cloud and on-prem locations
• Learn how to manage workloads, at scale, running on Kubernetes
• Contribute to a federated GraphQL API used by millions of clients
• Top of the line office hardware
• Competitive compensation package
• Education and conference reimbursements
• Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others