Senior Software Engineer, Sportsbook Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design, scale, and optimize APIs and real-time delivery systems.

• Manage API schemas as versioned contracts in relation to released mobile applications; identify breaking changes and coordinate migrations with iOS and Android leads.

• Construct and maintain services that remain efficient and accurate under high throughput and variable load conditions.

• Identify production bottlenecks and risks, and drive enhancements for platform scalability.

• Establish and fine-tune Datadog monitoring, alerting, and tracing systems.

• Develop native features for Android and iOS in Swift or Kotlin as necessary.

• Create comprehensive tests for each feature and bug resolution.

• Take ownership of features from API to screen, collaborating with iOS, Android, and web engineers.

• Troubleshoot issues across client and server interfaces.

• Design APIs from the client viewpoint, addressing caching and behavior in weak network scenarios.

• Utilize AI coding agents like Claude Code as the primary development approach; plan tasks, direct agents, and review outputs.

• Prepare proposals, technical specifications, and runbooks, presenting them to leadership and partner teams.

• Provide mentorship to teammates through code reviews, pairing sessions, and documentation.

• Perform additional responsibilities as needed.

⛳️ Requirements

• Practical, daily experience in developing software using AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot agents, or their equivalents.

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering, primarily focused on backend or API systems.

• At least 2 years of experience in designing and evolving APIs used by multiple clients, including aspects like versioning and backward compatibility.

• Eagerness to learn native development for iOS and Android using Swift or Kotlin.

• Experience in creating real-time features such as subscriptions, streaming, or push notifications.

• Strong knowledge of data structures, distributed systems, algorithms, and software design principles.

• Proven experience in identifying and resolving production performance regressions through load testing and tracing.

• Experience participating in an on-call rotation for a production service and managing release cycles comprehensively.

• Familiarity with server frameworks such as Phoenix, Ruby on Rails, FastAPI, Laravel, or Node.

• Proficient in technical writing, including technical specifications, runbooks, and cross-team design documents.

• Comfortable utilizing the terminal, Git and GitHub or similar tools, and an editor of choice.

• Prior experience in mobile shipping is advantageous but not mandatory.

• Experience with native mobile development in Swift or Kotlin, GraphQL, Elixir and Absinthe, relational databases, Kubernetes, containers, background job processing, and event infrastructure is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.

• A fun and relaxed work environment.

• Reimbursements for education and conferences.

• Opportunities for career advancement and mentoring others.

• Comprehensive benefits package, offering options and resources that support employees physically, financially, and emotionally.

• Eligibility for bonuses for most non-sales roles.