$150K - 225K a year
Build scalable multi-player games and messaging platform features, collaborating with frontend teams to deliver products to users.
3+ years engineering experience, ability to make practical decisions, thrive in ambiguity, and preferred experience with ErlangVM, Cassandra or ScyllaDB, and distributed systems.
Sleeper is a rapidly growing platform for sports fans with messaging at its core. Our backend consists primarily of Elixir and ScyllaDB. We are looking for experienced engineers who have a passion for building multi-player games or messaging products to help us bring Sleeper to the rest of the world. What you’ll be doing • Building multi-player games, messaging, and/or core platform features • Ensuring your solutions are scalable to millions of users • Work with frontend team to deliver products to end users Who you are • Impressive side project or 3+ years of engineering experience • You make practical decisions and trade-offs • You thrive in ambiguous environments • You are good at anticipating things that can go wrong • When things do go wrong, you act calm and think rationally Preferred skills (not required) • Experience with ErlangVM • Experience with Cassandra or ScyllaDB • Experience managing distributed systems infrastructure Sleeper believes in fair and equitable pay. Certain locations in the United States require job postings to include a reasonable estimate of the base salary range and/or a general description of benefits and other compensation applicable to the role. For this role in those locations, the base salary range for new hires is: Annualized Base Pay Range: 150K - 225K
This job posting was last updated on 7/31/2025