Web Developer

Full Time Role at EssentiallySports for Web Engineer

EssentiallySports is the home for the underserved fan, delivering storytelling that goes beyond the headlines. As a media platform, we combine deep audience insights with cultural trends, to meet fandom where it lives and where it goes next.

Values

1. Focus on the user and all else will follow
2. Hire for Intent and not for Experience
3. Bootstrapping gives you the freedom to serve the customer and the team instead of investor
4. Internet and Technology untap the niches
5. Action oriented, integrity, freedom, strong communicators, and responsibility
6. All things equal, one with high agency wins

EssentiallySports is a top 10 sports media platform in the U.S., generating over a billion pageviews a year and 30m+ monthly active users per month. This massive traffic fuels our data-driven culture, allowing us to build owned audiences at scale through organic growth—a model we take pride in, with zero CAC.

Responsibilities

• Owning significant architectural and product areas of the platform
• You'll make the key decisions and see them through to successful user engagement
• Delivering features that make a big impact on our growth journey
• Writing high-quality, highly-performant code
• Pushing changes every week day
• Participating in code reviews and architectural discussions - we want you to bring your expertise to the team and make us all better engineers
• Building Ad hoc scripts/tools using the technology of your choice to optimize organization operations using tech
• Take full ownership of your work, and take responsibility for every last detail, every step of the way.

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional software development experience in consumer products
• Someone who spends time thinking about product experience as much as they do thinking about language framework
• Have an awareness about NextJS and Vercel, or intent to pick them up.
• Collaborative and want to see the team succeed in its goals
• Practical about tradeoffs between speed and polish
• Passionate about showing others how to do something new
• Problem solving, proactive and solution oriented mindset, to spot opportunities and use code to fix it
• Ability to thrive in startups with a fast-paced environment and take ownership for working through ambiguity
• Excited to join a lean team in a big company that moves quickly

Very flexible and open, can ask anything anytime. Real mentorship and coaching. Superb energy in whole ES team. - when team was asked how would you describe ES to a friend after a round of beers

What do you get

• Fully Remote Job
• Flexible Working Hours
• Freedom to own the Problem Statements, and make your own solutions
• Directly work with folks having experience in Booking, Amazon, Zomato, Expedia, etc., having seen state of the art engineering systems
• Ability to deploy on production without any tests or approvals, a fully automated CI/CD and staging pipeline
• Release features at scale to Millions of Users on Day 1
• Freedom to work on multiple and new technologies
• Bi-annual offsites which are coined epic by the team!

The tech team is small, which means your impact on the company's success will be huge. You'll have the chance to work with experienced leaders/founders who have built and led multiple product, tech and design teams, and grown EssentiallySports to a global scale.

Our Tech Stack - Our website is built on Next.js (a framework that holds React on its base) and hosted on Vercel. We also have our backend as an AWS system that uses various services like CDN, s3, rds, lambdas, kinesis, and a wordpress CMS (content management system) that brings the writer's content to our website readers all around the world.