Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Location

San Francisco, CA

Compensation

$200,000 – $400,000 Base + Competitive Equity

Visa

Open to Visa Transfers — OPT and H-1B transfers

Company Stage of Funding

Growth Stage / Venture-Backed — Founded 2020

Office Type

On-site — 5 days per week in-person at the San Francisco office

Travel

Not specified

Company Description

We’re building at the intersection of technology, entertainment, and culture — creating consumer products that bring real money into experiences people already love.

Our platform powers multiple consumer products across gaming and collectibles, with both products ranking #1 in their respective App Store categories. The platform processes billions of dollars in volume annually, serves millions of users, generates hundreds of millions in revenue, and is profitable while continuing to grow at 10x+ year over year.

The team is small, highly ambitious, and made up of people from diverse backgrounds including quantitative trading, game development, art, entertainment, and consumer technology. Engineers have the opportunity to build systems and experiences that will be used by millions of people while working on the financial infrastructure supporting massive transaction volume.

With more than $65M raised from leading investors, the company is building toward a large-scale entertainment platform that combines real-money mechanics with novel consumer experiences.

What You Will Do

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Backend team, you’ll take significant ownership over the engineering system and drive projects from idea through completion.

You’ll work on consumer-facing features, complex data-driven systems, and the engineering infrastructure that allows a fast-growing team to ship quickly and reliably.

Build Consumer-Facing Products

• Build backend systems powering consumer-facing products used by millions of users
• Develop features that directly impact core business and product metrics
• Own projects from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and iteration
• Work closely with Product, Growth, Design, and Engineering to turn ideas into high-quality experiences
• Build reliable systems capable of supporting significant transaction and user volume

Solve Difficult Technical Problems

• Design and implement solutions to complex data-driven problems
• Work on systems such as optimal matchmaking, anti-fraud, and other high-scale platform challenges
• Build services and infrastructure that support real-money consumer experiences
• Identify technical bottlenecks and opportunities to improve system performance, reliability, and scalability
• Make thoughtful architectural decisions as the platform and user base continue to grow

Improve Engineering Velocity

• Improve engineering processes and systems so the team can ship faster
• Build and iterate on experimentation platforms
• Improve CI/CD and developer tooling
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive engineering workflows
• Raise the technical bar through strong engineering practices, code quality, and thoughtful system design
• Take on increasing ownership as the company and engineering organization grow

Ideal Candidate Background

Experience Requirements

• 3–8 years of professional backend software engineering experience
• Strong track record of independently driving projects to completion
• Experience building and operating production backend systems
• Experience working in fast-moving startup or high-growth environments
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership beyond narrowly defined responsibilities
• Comfortable continuously expanding scope and taking on additional responsibility

Technical Requirements

• Strong backend software engineering fundamentals
• Strong experience with Go or another modern backend language, with Go strongly preferred
• Experience building production APIs and backend services
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and scalable architecture
• Experience with AWS or another major cloud platform
• Experience with Kubernetes or containerized production environments
• Strong database and data modeling fundamentals
• Experience with testing, CI/CD, and engineering productivity tooling
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
• Ability to design systems that are reliable, scalable, and maintainable

Preferred Background

• Professional Go experience
• Experience with AWS
• Kubernetes / k8s experience
• Experience building high-scale consumer products
• Experience with real-time systems or high-volume transaction platforms
• Experience with fraud detection, risk systems, payments, financial technology, or marketplaces
• Experience solving complex data-driven problems
• Experience building experimentation platforms
• Experience improving CI/CD and developer infrastructure
• Experience in gaming, entertainment, collectibles, or other consumer technology

Soft Skills

• Extremely high ownership and agency
• Strong bias toward action and execution
• Comfortable operating with significant autonomy
• Naturally looks for opportunities to take on more responsibility
• Strong product and business awareness
• Pragmatic and highly resourceful
• Comfortable in a small, fast-moving organization
• Strong communicator and collaborator
• Motivated by continuous learning and growth
• Thrives in a high-performance, high-expectation environment

Compensation & Benefits

• $200,000 – $400,000 base salary, depending on experience and qualifications
• Competitive equity
• Full-time position
• On-site work environment, 5 days per week in San Francisco
• Open to visa transfers, including OPT and H-1B transfers

Why Join

• Build consumer products used by millions of people
• Work on systems processing billions in annual volume
• Solve technically challenging problems across matchmaking, anti-fraud, scalability, and real-time systems
• Join a profitable, rapidly growing company with 10x+ year-over-year growth
• Work with an unusually diverse and high-caliber team spanning technology, gaming, finance, art, and entertainment
• Have significant ownership over the engineering system and product
• Work in a high-agency environment where strong performers are given increasing responsibility
• Build technology at the intersection of entertainment, culture, and financial infrastructure