We are hiring a Back End Engineer for Barstool Sports, located in New York City. As a Back End Engineer, you will not only own, but also perform maintenance and feature enhancements across an array of projects. You will be tasked to work with the product & engineering team, to navigate the chaos that is Barstool, and perform the engineering lift needed to accomplish our core objectives. We work on a wide array of products and support APIs that power the cross-platform Barstool experience for both our users and editorial staff. You will also be responsible for keeping up with the latest technologies; at Barstool, we pick the best tool for the job, and aren’t afraid of cutting-edge tech.
Everyone on the engineering team contributes to the product and vision of where we are taking Barstool. You should love what you do.
Back-end languages, frameworks, tools & infrastructure you should know….
- 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)
Experience in any of the following is nice to have...
- 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
Front-end languages and frameworks you will encounter...
- Semantic HTML
- React.js
- Isomorphic/SSR Single Page Apps (We use Next.js/Vercel)
- Storybook.js
- Video.js & HLS.js
- Task runners, including Webpack, Gulp, Grunt, and NPM modules
Requirements
- 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.
Salary Range: $110,000 - $125,000k
- 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
- Rep the brand as best you can
- We have lots of different brains, be open to them
- Never change who you are, that's who we hired
- Find the solution, don't be the problem
- Don't be afraid to try something new
- Common Sense. Use it.
- Be there for your audience
- Always think about how you can help
Top Skills
What We Do
Barstool Sports is one of the most influential lifestyle brands in America. With a rich history, Barstool Sports has one of the most highly coveted, fiercely loyal, and incredibly engaged audiences, which has put Barstool at the top of the charts.
Barstool Sports is the preeminent digital sports media brand that has established an extremely influential and deeply authentic voice. Barstool Sports creates innovative content with massive distribution on multiple platforms including web, apps, podcasts, radio, video, social, events, pay-per-view, subscription, and TV to an incredibly engaged audience.
Barstool steals the spotlight in cultural moments. Their presence at major sporting events drives more awareness, engagement, and viewership in younger demographics than any other media brand. Barstool Sports and its founder, Dave Portnoy, consistently ranks as the #1 most influential social media account at major sporting events like the Kentucky Derby, Super Bowl, PGA Championship, U.S. Open Golf, Stanley Cup Finals, NASCAR's Daytona 500, and more.
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