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We’re the largest competitive gaming organization serving high school and education facilities in North America, focused on making esports available to every student as a legitimate varsity level sport in high schools throughout the U.S. We achieve this by working with faculty to easily offer students the chance to engage in healthy esports competition, surrounded by peers while supervised by teachers. Through organized esports competitions, students are learning to align their commitment to gaming with their success in academics and potential future careers.

We’re on the verge of transforming youth athletics for generations to come. High School Esports League is a technology company at its core, building a platform to service youth competitive esports from young kids to college students. We’re looking for senior engineers to move our engineering resources in-house and take our platform to the next level. Our product roadmap is full of features that can enhance the future of today’s youth through esports and we want passionate engineers to help us build it.

Requirements

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Implementing conventions and standards for developing future web applications in a secure, clean and efficient manner
  • Architecting and coding user-facing web applications for new and legacy backend systems
  • Creating automated tests
  • Work with your team and end-users to develop user-friendly solutions that effectively solve business problems
  • Participate in code reviews and provide/receive constructive feedback from peers
  • Use best practices for maintaining the codebase
  • Use Jira for ticket tracking, sprint planning, and communication with business stakeholders
  • Be able to work across multiple time zones with different teams of developers, marketing and project managers
  • Documentation of code and applications including code comments, READMEs, and standardized commit messages
  • Effectively communicating with a variety of end-users, business managers and other developers on project plans and application functionality
  • Not afraid to pick up work with involving new technologies and skillsets
  • Must be able to work independently and as part of a team

Qualifications

  • 1-3 Years of hands-on, professional software development experience building highly scalable online services
  • Exposure to SPA architecture
  • Understanding RESTful architecture and implementation
  • Able to work with 3rd party APIs and understand their documentation
  • Good Communications Skills
  • Able to work with UI/UX designer and communicate code-ability of designs
  • Understand FullStack Principles to fully understand the implementation of our back end tech on the front end
  • Personal Growth Mindset
  • Likes playing Video games

Languages/Technology Competencies

  • Angular 11 (Prefered), or any SPA library
  • JavaScript & Typescript
  • HTML & CSS (SCSS)
  • Websockets
  • Docker (Dev Environment)
  • JIRA

Bonus Points

  • Cordova
  • Electron

Benefits

  • Market rate salary
  • Healthcare & Dental & Vision
  • Stock Options
  • 401K
  • Snacks & drinks at the office
  • Casual work environment
  • Play your favorite PC/console games at the office