Matthew Berry's Fantasy Life

1 Job

39 Employees

About the Company

Founded by the "Godfather of Fantasy Sports", Matthew Berry's Fantasy Life is a multi-media content company that delivers engaging and entertaining content to a purpose built community of avid football fans.

Fantasy Life covers fantasy sports from every angle including Daily Fantasy Sports and Sports Betting. With a roster of world class content creators, Fantasy Life is delivering the very best content, data and tools to fans looking for that winning edge.

Fantasy Life content platforms:
-Daily Newsletter delivered to 300k+ fans with industry defying engagement with open rates over 50%.
-Fantasy Life on SiriusXM, M-F 11a-1p starring Kendall Valenzuela and Peter Overzet
-Fantasy Life Vodcast featuring Dwain McFarland, Marcas Grant, Ian Hartitz, Pete Overzet and Chris Allen
-Over 2m monthly views across Social Media Platforms

Listed Jobs

Company Name: Matthew Berry's Fantasy Life
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
Job Description: **Job Title:** Senior Backend Engineer **Role Summary:** Lead development of scalable, cloud-native backend systems for fantasy sports and gaming platforms, emphasizing Golang, PostgreSQL, and AWS. Own critical components of data pipelines and high-performance architectures. **Expectations:** Deliver reliable, maintainable code for mission-critical services; collaborate cross-functionally to design and implement robust solutions; advocate for best practices in architecture and code quality. **Key Responsibilities:** - Design and implement high-performance Golang backend services. - Build/own data ingestion pipelines (batch/streaming) and data transformation workflows. - Optimize PostgreSQL database models, queries, and migrations. - Develop cloud-native AWS services (ECS, Lambda, SQS, RDS/Aurora). - Collaborate with product, design, and DevOps teams on end-to-end feature delivery. - Improve APIs, developer tooling, and service reliability. - Conduct code reviews and mentor engineering teams to elevate standards. - Implement scalable, future-ready architectures for real-money gaming platforms. **Required Skills:** - 5–8+ years professional software engineering experience. - Production systems development in Golang. - PostgreSQL query optimization and schema design. - ETL pipeline and data modeling expertise. - AWS cloud-native services (ECS, Lambda, etc.). - Event-driven architectures (Kafka, SQS). - Microservices, distributed systems, and scalable architecture design. - CI/CD and containerized environments (Docker, ECS). - Strong debugging, problem-solving, and cross-team communication. **Required Education & Certifications:** - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience). - AI tool proficiency (coding assistants, testing tools). - Familiarity with SLOs, error budgets, and reliability engineering.