TLDR: If you love sports, coding, AI and reverse engineering, this job is for you.
About Pikkit
At Pikkit, we’re building the home for sports betting. Today, we’re a social sports betting app with over 1 million users, 20,000+ 5 star reviews, and we’ve tracked over 30 billion dollars of legal US sports wagers through our app. We’re featured in industry reports from Citizens Bank, Houlihan Lokey, SBC, and more. We’re also backed by leading venture capitalists including Founder Collective, Baukunst, and Matrix. We’re a team of 15; we have an office in Flatiron in NYC and are all in-person. We move fast, build high quality products, and don't take ourselves too seriously. 😊
About this role
Backend engineering at Pikkit is an exciting role to help us scale our systems as we grow. We're hiring a backend engineer who is passionate about delivering high quality experiences to our users and ensuring that our app is performant during high spikes in user traffic (i.e. Super Bowl or a big NFL match-up). We use React Native, Node, AWS, MongoDB, SST, and more. We don't expect you to have experience in our exact stack, but we do expect strong engineering fundamentals and a strong interest in reliability, scalability, and product experience.
You'll work on things like:
Database optimizations, backend systems, and more
Scaling our platform for increasing usage
Stress testing our system and running simulations to identify areas to improve performance
Nice to have, but not necessary:
3+ years of software engineering experience with building at the product/application layer
Strong experience with MongoDB
Strong initiative and ability to thrive in ambiguity — startup or personal project experience is a major plus
The desire to wear a bunch of hats, learn new skills and have significant product ownership
Benefits
Interesting and challenging problems to solve
Experienced engineers and technical founders to learn from
Competitive salary and equity
Generous budget for laptop, monitors, and other office equipment
Health, dental, and vision insurance
Unlimited vacation policy
Fun In-person team events
Skills Required
- Strong engineering fundamentals and strong interest in reliability, scalability, and product experience
- Ability to ensure app performance during high traffic spikes and work on backend systems
- 3+ years of software engineering experience building at the product/application layer
- Strong experience with MongoDB
- Startup or personal project experience; strong initiative and ability to thrive in ambiguity
- Desire to wear multiple hats and have significant product ownership
What We Do
Pikkit is a social sports-betting platform and bet-tracking app that syncs users’ sportsbook accounts (BookSync) to automatically record wagers. It combines live bet tracking, performance analytics (including Closing Line Value), odds/line-shopping and social feed features. Pikkit offers a free app plus a Pikkit Pro subscription with advanced tools for experienced bettors and supports 30+ sportsbooks across the US and Canada.
