Senior Backend Engineer - Go
Underdog FantasyUnited States
Posted December 9, 2025
160000 - 240000 USD year
Full Time
About the Company
Underdog makes sports more fun by building the best products and scaling the biggest company in the space.
Job Description
We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to build the backbone of Underdog's data ecosystem, design and deploy internal APIs and workflows, and own greenfield projects that shape the future of our business.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building microservices heavy backend systems and APIs for internal applications on a cloud environment
- Advanced proficiency with Go
- Experience building and scaling backend systems and designing enterprise scale APIs for external and internal applications
- Excellent communication skills with ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, or ECS
- Experience with DevOps practices such as CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform, CDK)
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Home office stipend
- 5% 401k match
- FSA
- Company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents