Rush Street Interactive (NYSE: RSI) is a market leader in online casino and sports betting, currently operating real-money gaming with our brands: BetRivers.com, PlaySugarHouse.com, and RushBet.co. We’re building bridges between online, social and land-based gaming businesses to create amazing, integrated experiences that keep players in the game.
We seek a Staff Engineer who will play a critical role in maintaining a designated product area's technical health and architecture. The Staff Engineer will provide leadership and guidance, ensuring that engineering teams execute strategies defined by Principal Engineers. In addition to technical oversight, the Staff Engineer will also focus on coaching and mentoring team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence.
What You Will Do:
- Your challenge will be to architect and have technical ownership of the website components, including enhancing modules and greenfield projects, support team members with technical challenges while following best practice methods, and contribute ideas and experience to new development solutions.
- Our chosen stack is React + TypeScript with each product team producing self-contained microfrontends. We are also working with or have worked with (depending on the area) jQuery/Bootstrap/Backbone/SASS.
- Contribute to the company roadmap and innovation across the company
- Drive cross-team technical roadmap as a cross-team contributor, align engineers to wider technical strategy & goals, and guide them in paying off their technical debt
- Leverage your company-wide domain knowledge to facilitate cross-team feature development
- Provide guidance and hands-on support to engineers during feature development, offering guidance and mentorship to ensure best practices are followed and challenges are effectively addressed.
- Drive strategic technological initiatives, helping stakeholders understand their value and need
- Identify sources of waste and come up with plans to improve processes and solutions
- Anticipate technical issues at the product level and drive architectural and design decisions to avoid them
- Monitor the performance of engineers on teams, and partner with Engineering Managers on mentoring and growth
- Perform feasibility studies to validate capability and functionality
All About You:
- 6+ years of experience in development with deep knowledge of React, JavaScript, and the JavaScript ecosystem. Also, experience with distributed systems, micro-services, and highly available and scalable applications
- Experience in developing performant websites
- Analytical and solution-oriented mindset
- Skills to navigate fast in large codebase, great troubleshooting skills
- Eagerness to constantly learn and update your skills, and you like to share knowledge with others
- Great interpersonal, leadership, and communication skills
- Excellent understanding of system design and design patterns
- Ability to balance multiple goals across tech/product/strategy/other teams and concerns
- Proven record of driving sweeping improvements in stability, performance, and scalability across major business-critical systems
- Ability to quickly master large sections of codebases
- Expert in Agile software development, fostering a culture of feedback
- Casino gaming experience is a plus but not required
As a rapidly growing company in an emerging industry, you’ll have a huge impact on our product and our company. We like proactive team members and strive to have a company of self-disciplined professionals who enjoy collaboration, having fun, and of course, achieving together what others believe to be improbable. We are dedicated to treating everyone with respect and to support your professional and personal growth.
Rush Street Interactive is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, sexual identity, and expression, marital status, family status, lifestyle, age, culture, religion, military, and veteran status, citizenship, or disability.
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What We Do
Rush Street Interactive (NYSE: RSI) is a market leader in online casino and sports betting, currently operating real-money gaming with our brands: BetRivers.com, PlaySugarHouse.com, and RushBet.co. We’re building bridges between online, social and land-based gaming businesses to create amazing, integrated experiences that keep players in the game.
RSI was named the 2022 EGR North America Awards Operator of the Year, Customer Service Operator of the Year, and Social Gaming Operator of the Year. RSI is committed to industry-leading responsible gaming practices and seeks to provide its customers with the resources and services they need to play responsibly. For more information, visit www.rushstreetinteractive.com.
