Engineering Lead
DubClub Overview
The DubClub founding team played football and baseball together at Stanford, then remained friends after college. Like many sports bettors and sports fans, we triumphed together. But we also lost together. Through it all, we did our best to utilize the timely information shared by countless premium sports content creators (known as “cappers”) to better inform our bets. Input from cappers was useful, but the methods to receive their timely content containing betting advice were unreliable. We found ourselves refreshing websites, sifting through timelines, and jumping in and out of Discord servers.
When we paid cappers for their advice, a great dynamic ensued. Cappers made money from our payment for their content, and we lost money less frequently. Thus, DubClub was born to make cappers more money and enable their subscribers to receive valuable content reliably.
Since our founding, we have facilitated over $40 million in subscription payments for cappers and delivered hundreds of millions of messages containing informational sports betting content. People are making more money and more informed betting decisions with DubClub.
We are backed with Series A funding from leading Silicon Valley investors, several public company internet founders, sports industry veterans, and Hall of Fame athletes.
Our Mission & Vision
We exist to help people Win More Together™. Our vision is to build the destination where people consume, discuss, and buy premium sports content from creators.
Role Context
The company was founded in late 2021 by three experienced business leaders who have established a performant and scalable Go To Market motion complemented by strong, no cost viral loops on the backs of our MVP. Our MVP was built with a small but mighty team of engineers, with development leadership from the founder/CEO. The product is primarily accessible via the web at dubclub.win with a companion mobile app for subscriber content delivery (known as the DubClub Plays App).
As our Engineering Lead, you are the product manager of the engineering team – the product or output you are responsible for is a high-performing team that delivers on time. To be successful, you will not only seek solutions to complex problems, but you will also break these complex problems into clear pieces; you will define a realistic scope of work for the team and balance obligations; you will advocate for resources the team needs (or doesn’t need); you will drive decisions with rationality, rigor, and documentation. You will report directly to the cofounder/CEO and partner with him to bring our product vision to life, refine our technology stack, and scale our platform. .
Key Responsibilities
Individual Contributor First: First and foremost, lead from the front as a builder who leads by doing – no job is beneath you, and you understand that to build something great, you have to get in the weeds early and often.
Product Development: Refine deadlines for product releases using technical input and balancing key business objectives, and then execute with your team to consistently ship on those timelines.
Drive Urgency: Index for speed and pace, and balance with the obvious viable dose of quality. Think of yourself as majoring in execution and minoring in team building. Solve a problem, ship, learn, and iterate.
Technology Leadership: You will be the primary owner of the quality, resilience and scalability of all technical development. While our current stack includes Django, you will help us refine and modernize it as we grow. You will lean on the skill sets and composition of your engineering team to maintain world-class technology resilience for our users.
Operational Excellence: Build, execute, and proliferate operations that simplify, enhance, and optimize a world-class web user and mobile user experience.
Decision Documentation: Foster a culture of transparency by documenting decisions and sharing knowledge across the team.
Collaboration: Work directly with the founder-CEO, technical, and go-to-market teams to bring the founders’ product vision to life.
User-centricity: Utilize qualitative and quantitative user data to inform fast, autonomous decision making and product iteration.
Qualifications
Proven leader: You have done this before. You have experience in a technical leadership role in a high growth startup. You have a mix of role-specific domain knowledge, technical abilities, and people skills. You have experience building and scaling engineering teams.
Critical thinking: Excellent problem-solving and communication skills. You question assumptions and provide clear and coherent reasons for decisions.
O to 1: Previous experience founding or building very early stage products for users and growing the product successfully.
Navigating ambiguity: You deeply understand early stage startups and the inherent ambiguity. You can make sense out of ambiguous or contradictory messages then drive toward a clear path to execution.
Tech stack:
* Proficiency in Python and familiarity with Django is essential.
* Experience with at least one of the front-end technologies like Svelte, React, Angular
* Proficiency with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
* Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
* Strong database knowledge (Postgres preferable).
* Bonus Points: Experience with mobile app development.
Compensation
Generous Compensation Package: Significant cash and equity ownership stake aligning your success with the company’s growth.
Why Join Us
Impact: Build upon early market leadership in an exploding industry.
Ownership: Significant equity and influence in the company’s direction.
Autonomy: Freedom to shape the tech vision and build your team.
Growth: Join a team on the verge of explosive growth.
Career: Clear upward mobility to expand your skill set and responsibilities.
Our Values
Customer-Obsession: We put our users first, not our opinions. Every decision we make and every action we take is focused on creating better outcomes for our users. Be a driver, not a passenger. Instead of sitting around hoping things happen for our users, make great things happen.
Collaboration: We lean on each other and work closely with users to achieve unequaled outcomes for them. Spread positive vibes and elevate others. When you see someone do something great, say something. When you see someone do something that can be improved, say something. Average players avoid the truth, good players want to be told the truth, and great players seek the truth. Win More Together™!
Creativity: We are problem-solvers. We work hard to understand problems, identify a solution, ship, learn, and iterate. In solving problems for our users, we remain objective with high standards for ourselves, rather than argue with the data or what our users tell us.
Clarity: We prefer simplicity. Life is too short to waste time. Get rid of the non-essential. Communicate with directness and brevity. Be a professional. Operate with very clear outcomes in mind, plan your work, then work your plan.
Ready to make an impact? Apply today and help us build something extraordinary at DubClub.
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of any status protected under federal, state, or local law.