Senior Full Stack Engineer (backend oriented)

About us:

Fanstake is building the world’s biggest fan-direct athlete recruiting and funding platform. Our mission is to enable fans to engage and influence their team rosters directly by contingent and direct funding of their current players and target athletes. Our founders are passionate sports fans with decades of experience and success and Fanstake are backed by world class investors who are former college and professional athletes.

Position Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled and self-motivated Senior/Staff Software Engineer to help get product into our customers’ hands as quickly as possible and then iterate. You will play a crucial, early, and influential role in building the product and our software platform.  You will participate in full-stack development, and work closely with the founders to create high quality software that delivers amazing consumer product experiences.

Requirements

• Love working closely with founders and engineers to deliver world-class products.
• Proven ability to succeed in a self-directed environment in a similar software development role.
• Strong software development skills. Fundamentals are more important than knowledge of specific languages, libraries, architectures, etc.
• Proficiency in Scala, including general understanding of the Java platform and its ecosystem of tools and libraries. (Expert proficiency in Java/Kotlin and other strongly-typed languages will be considered)
• Experience with JS
• Broad experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and devops automation.  We love to leverage IaaS and write a bit of extra code so we don’t have to baby-sit systems.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to iterate quickly with stakeholders, designers, product managers and other engineers.
• Strong appreciation for being a great teammate and belief in developing camaraderie through humility, respect, and trust.

Responsibilities:

• Backend Development: Lead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable, high-performance web applications, covering back-end development.
• Architecture and Design: Contribute to architectural decisions and design scalable solutions that align with our product goals and technical requirements.
• Code Quality and Best Practices: Ensure high code quality through code reviews, automated testing, and adhering to best practices in software development.
• Collaboration and Mentorship: Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Scalability and Performance: Implement robust performance monitoring and optimization strategies to ensure the platform can handle increasing user loads and data volumes efficiently.
• Continuously Improve: Challenge our existing process and tooling to continuously work towards faster learning, development, and iteration. This includes taking advantage of AI tools to increase productivity and scale impact.

What We Offer

• Chance to make a significant impact in a fast-growing startup.
• Collaborative and innovative work environment
• Flex PTO for any reason, including sick days (no specified limits), flexible work schedule.
• Personal laptop.
• Health and wellness package.
• Remote work.