About the job

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.

Range: $110,000 - $125,000