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Senior and Staff Backend Engineer, Picks at Sleeper

Department: Engineering

Compensation

$180,000 – $300,000/yr

Setup
Hybrid
Location
New York, New York
Type
Full-time
Level
senior
Posted

Description

Sleeper is hiring Senior and Staff Backend Engineers for its Picks product, which combines daily fantasy sports and prediction markets with real-money transactions. The role owns end-to-end systems including contest and entry lifecycles, pricing and market data, settlement, wallets, ledgers, eligibility, compliance, risk, and third-party integrations. Candidates need 5+ years of backend engineering experience for Senior and 8+ years plus an architecture-ownership track record for Staff, along with distributed-systems expertise and strong knowledge of at least one backend language. The position is hybrid and based in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City, with a base salary of $180,000–$300,000 per year.

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