Fastest live scores, standings, and player updates across NFL, NBA, CBB, MLB, NHL, and WNBA. Backed by General Catalyst and a16z.
About the role
We're hiring Senior and Staff Backend Engineers for Sleeper Picks, our real-money product. Picks is two games sharing one wallet and one user: daily fantasy sports , where users pick player stat lines over or under a projection, and prediction markets , where they take positions on game and team outcomes at prices that move right up to the whistle.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of backend engineering. For Staff, 8+ years and a track record of owning the architecture of systems at this scale
- You've built and operated consumer products with millions of users, and you understand what your code does in production at that scale
- You've shipped features end to end — not only infrastructure
- You've worked on systems where being wrong costs money — payments, trading, marketplaces, ledgers, or real-money gaming — or you can show the same rigor from somewhere else
- Deep in distributed systems: data modeling, caching, queues, and the correctness questions that come with real-time updates and concurrent writes
- Strong in at least one backend language — Elixir, Go, Java, Python, Rust, Node, or similar
More about this role
Sleeper is on a mission to connect people over sports through games and community. As one of the fastest-growing platforms in the fantasy sports and real-money gaming space, we’re redefining how sports fans engage—whether it’s through season-long leagues, pick’em contests, or real-time interactions with friends.
Our team is lean, passionate, and product-driven. We obsess over user experience and believe that building delightful, fast, and reliable products is the best way to grow. Backed by some of the most respected investors in Silicon Valley, including Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst, we're building the future of sports engagement.
We're hiring Senior and Staff Backend Engineers for Sleeper Picks, our real-money product. Picks is two games sharing one wallet and one user: daily fantasy sports , where users pick player stat lines over or under a projection, and prediction markets , where they take positions on game and team outcomes at prices that move right up to the whistle.
Real money changes the engineering. Prices move in real time, entries surge before games start, and everything has to settle correctly the moment a game goes final. A stale price or a ledger that...
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