Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Barstool Sports is seeking a Back End Engineer to join their Engineering Department. This role involves maintaining and enhancing features across various projects while collaborating with the product and engineering teams to achieve core objectives.
Responsibilities
- Own, but also perform maintenance and feature enhancements across an array of projects
- Work with the product & engineering team
- Perform the engineering lift needed to accomplish our core objectives
- Keep up with the latest technologies
- Pick the best tool for the job
- Write stable high-quality code for high-traffic production environments
- Design REST APIs that other devs enjoy using
- Write and maintain unit and integration tests
Skills
- 2+ years of engineering experience in Javascript/TypeScript
- Ability to think at a high level about product strategy and vision
- Self-motivated and able to efficiently run with a project without close supervision
- Ability to work well with diverse stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills — you should be able to clearly articulate your decisions
- NodeJS/TypeScript
- MongoDB, MySQL, Snowflake
- Experience writing stable high-quality code for high-traffic production environments
- Designing REST APIs that other devs enjoy using
- Up-to-date knowledge of Cloud Vendors (AWS or GCP)
- Writing and maintaining unit and integration tests
- Knowledge of serverless architecture is a plus
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code frameworks (we use Serverless)
- Content Publishing/CMS
- Video & Streaming (ffmpeg, hls, video delivery, QOS, etc)
- Ecommerce
- Ad Tech
- Podcasts/Audio Tech
- Experience with Transcription or other commercial ML tools
Benefits
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance; Flexible Spending Accounts and Commuter Benefits
- A 4% 401(k) employer match
- Unlimited vacation time, including Summer break in July and Holiday break in December
- Monthly employer contribution towards cell phone reimbursement
- Employee discount to the Barstool Sports store
- Financial wellness benefits through Origin
- A monthly stipend for UberEats
Company Overview
Barstool Sports is a digital sports, entertainment and media brand that delivers content across multiple platforms. It was founded in 2003, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.barstoolsports.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Barstool Sports has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2024, 2 in 2023, 1 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.