Backend Engineer at Sleeper

Sleeper is a rapidly growing platform for sports fans with messaging at its core. Our backend consists primarily of Elixir and Scylla

DB. 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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