ABOUT ELEVATE:
Elevate is a full-service consulting firm that inspires high-performing organizations to find their limits and push past them. With expertise in brand consulting, sales strategy, data-driven insights, and talent optimization, Elevate gives its clients a competitive edge in the fight for people’s precious time and attention. Established in 2018, Elevate set out to help sports teams and leagues spark innovation and drive performance. In the years since, the world of sports has transformed, today standing at the convergence of media, entertainment, and consumer brands, with Elevate supporting some of the world’s most ambitious businesses across these sectors. Elevate’s proprietary technology, data sources, and software products combined with our thoughtful insights, and people-centric approach give clients a 360-degree view of their customers, underpinning intelligent decision-making on marketing spend, growth strategy, and more.
Our team of 400+ employees spans the globe with in 20 locations worldwide. We value recruiting diverse individuals to our team to bring new perspectives to our company and look forward to learning more about you in the recruitment process. To learn more and see what we’ve been up to, follow Elevate on
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Where you come inElevate is embarking on an exciting transformation journey from a consulting company to a product-led organization where our technology will become a primary revenue driver. Join our rapidly growing engineering team that's setting the foundation for this transformation.
You'll collaborate with talented engineers and product leaders to build and enhance our product platforms. You'll work across the entire stack - from creating exceptional user experiences to building robust backend services that power our products and integrations. You'll have the opportunity to work on diverse products that serve our clients in sports, entertainment, and consumer brands.
What You'll Bring
- Full Stack Expertise: 5+ years of experience building modern web applications across both frontend and backend technologies
- Frontend Skills: Proficiency with React, TypeScript, and modern frontend development practices including component architecture and responsive design
- Backend Skills: Strong experience with Python and web frameworks like FastAPI or Flask, along with RESTful API design
- Cloud Native Development: Experience building applications on AWS using services like Lambda, ECS, API Gateway, and Aurora PostgreSQL
- Database Knowledge: Proficiency with both relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL database systems
- Product Engineering Mindset: Understanding that technology exists to solve customer problems and create business value
- End-to-End Ownership: Comfort working across the entire stack to deliver complete solutions from UI to database
- Problem-Solving Approach: You start with understanding the problem deeply before jumping to solutions
- Experimentation Mindset: You value learning through rapid experimentation and embrace a "progress over perfection" approach
- Outcome Orientation: You measure success by business impact and customer satisfaction, not just by features shipped
- Communication Skills: Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Agency Experience: Experience working effectively with development agency partners is a plus
- Domain Experience: Background in transactional systems or data-intensive applications is a plus
How You'll Make an Impact
- Deliver End-to-End Solutions: Take ownership of features from conception to deployment, working across the entire technical stack
- Build Exceptional Experiences: Create intuitive user interfaces while ensuring the backend services that power them are reliable and performant
- Develop Scalable Architecture: Design and implement solutions that work seamlessly across our micro-frontend architecture and microservices backend
- Bridge Frontend and Backend: Serve as a technical bridge between specialized frontend and backend engineers, ensuring cohesive solutions
- Integrate with Partners: Build and maintain integrations with third-party services, APIs, and external systems
- Solve Real Customer Problems: Work directly with customers and stakeholders to understand pain points and deliver validated solutions
- Enable Rapid Experimentation: Quickly prototype and iterate on solutions across the stack to validate ideas before full implementation
- Champion Best Practices: Establish patterns for full-stack development that balance frontend user experience with backend reliability
Your Journey: First 90 Days
First 30 Days
- Deep dive into our existing architecture across frontend, backend, and infrastructure layers
- Build relationships with your engineering teammates, key stakeholders, and agency partners
- Start contributing code across the stack to understand our systems holistically
- Partner with the team to develop your personal roadmap for impact
Days 31-60
- Lead a significant feature implementation that spans both frontend and backend
- Design and run a product experiment that requires changes across the full stack
- Begin establishing patterns for full-stack development and cross-layer testing
Days 61-90
- Represent engineering in cross-functional planning meetings with a holistic technical perspective
- Drive technical decision-making for features that require frontend and backend coordination
- Mentor other engineers on full-stack development practices and cross-layer thinking
Why This Role Matters Now
- Growing Team: Join a talented and expanding engineering team that's building the foundation for Elevate's product-led future
- Product-Led Transformation: Drive the shift to a product-led organization following the playbook of companies like Spotify, Airbnb, and Stripe
- Learning Culture: Grow alongside passionate engineers in an environment that values continuous learning and knowledge sharing
- Significant Impact: Your work will directly enable products that drive millions in revenue for our clients
- Autonomy and Ownership: Lead with significant autonomy while owning outcomes, not just outputs
The Technology You'll Work With
- Our technology stack includes:
- Frontend: React, TypeScript, MUI, Redux
- Backend: Python, FastAPI, Flask
- Infrastructure: AWS (Lambda, ECS, API Gateway, Aurora PostgreSQL, SQS)
- Payments: Stripe integration
- Data Processing: AWS Glue, Redshift
- Development Practices: Microservices architecture, micro-frontends, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code
Our Product Engineering Principles
- Customer Obsession: We start with the customer and work backward. We don't build features; we solve customer and business problems.
- Ownership: Teams own outcomes, not just outputs. Success means business impact and customer delight, not shipping on schedule.
- Simplicity: We choose architectural and product simplicity over complexity. Complex solutions are harder to maintain, evolve, and explain.
- Data-Driven Decisions: We measure what matters and use data to guide our product development and business decisions.
- Rapid Learning: We implement quick feedback loops, focus on learning through experimentation, and value progress over perfection.
- Transparency: We invite visibility and are transparent with where we're spending our time.
We're looking for engineers who want to do the best work of their careers while transforming how the sports and entertainment industry operates. At Elevate, you'll have the freedom to solve meaningful problems, the support to grow as a leader, and the satisfaction of seeing your work impact millions of fans. If you're ready to help shape our product-led future, we'd love to connect.
POSITION AND BENEFITS DETAILS:
- Full Time, Exempt
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Short-Term & Long-Term Disability Insurance + FSA, HSA, and more
- 401k Employer Match after meeting eligibility requirements
- 14 Paid Holidays
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid Parental Leave
WORKING CONDITIONS:
Travel Requirements
- Occasional travel may be required
Physical Demands
- Extensive work in front of a screen
Work Environment
- This role is remote, with the potential for a hybrid work arrangement in the following cities: New York, NY; Santa Clara, CA; Charlotte, NC; Salt Lake City, UT; or Nashville, TN.
This position is open to all qualified candidates. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability in connection with the application process, you may contact us at [email protected] We are proud to be an equal opportunity/veterans/disabled/ LGBT employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
