Senior Backend Engineer - Ruby on Rails

Founded by a team of industry veterans, Underdog was born with the idea that bringing strategic innovation to sports gaming and entertainment is the key to success in an exceptionally competitive market. Underdog has quickly established itself as a leader in the space, and is committed to building the best sports gaming platform in the industry -- and supporting the most passionate community of sports fans while doing it!

At Underdog, we’re not only about creating these awesome products, but also about growing our culture of passion, ownership, and fun! We believe that great companies are made out of great people. Our continual aim is to create an inclusive environment for everyone, at all levels, to achieve their highest potential at work.

As a Backend Engineer, you will be tasked to improve the scalability of our games, create new games, and more sports to our existing games to deliver on initiatives vital to both growing and retaining our customers.

• Write, test, review, and maintain code using Ruby
• Evaluate and recommend solutions & suggestions to the team
• Maintain and improve internal APIs
• Document the systems you help build, monitor, and maintain
• Coordinate with product, design, and support to organize priorities
• Improve the scalability and performance of the platform

• Extremely comfortable using Ruby, RoR, PostgreSQL, GKE & Minitest
• A superb communicator both written and verbal
• You’re collaborative by nature, and passionate about fostering best practices for the betterment of the team
• Obsessed with scaling & improving the platform's performance
• Eagerness to test, track & document your work
• A top level problem solver comfortable ideating and implementing solutions suggested by the team

• Experienced with relational databases
• Familiar with API design

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