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Design, build, and scale GraphQL and gRPC APIs and SQL queries powering the sportsbook marketplace. Own end-to-end feature delivery, performance diagnostics and remediation, release and deployment windows, monitoring in DataDog, and on-call rotations. Mentor peers, draft technical proposals/specs, and improve platform scalability through load testing, tracing, and production hygiene.

Build performant, accessible front-end applications using React and TypeScript. Partner with product and design to architect and ship features, write thorough automated tests, use observability and profiling tools to diagnose issues, improve CI/CD and testing pipelines, mentor teammates, and raise code quality while working in an agile environment.

Support sportsbook risk and trading operations: monitor bet tickers, pricing, liabilities, promos and anomalies; assist traders with grading, manual markets, customer queries, reporting, and player profiling. Work flexible 24/7 schedules to protect margins and optimize the fan experience.

Maintain and scale Alley-oop design system by creating reusable UI components, patterns, and documentation. Collaborate with designers, PMs, and engineers to improve accessibility, optimize Figma libraries, drive adoption, run workshops, and shape roadmap and governance to speed product delivery.

Design, administer, and optimize databases for cloud-native platforms. Support production incidents, evaluate and improve schemas and replication, drive DB architecture choices across AWS/GCP, implement IaC (Terraform) and GitOps, and build repeatable database designs for availability, reliability, and performance.

Lead design and delivery of platform capabilities that power a Federated GraphQL API and event-driven systems. Build and optimize gRPC endpoints, GraphQL APIs, and SQL for scale; own observability (DataDog, Bugsnag), mentor engineers, drive integrations, improve performance and reliability, and support customer-facing product teams across the organization.