Jackpocket is the first mobile lottery app in the U.S. that offers players a secure way to order official state lottery tickets, such as Powerball, Mega Millions, and more, via their smartphones. We're creating a more convenient, fun, and responsible way to play the lottery by modernizing the $300B global lottery market with a mobile platform that everyone, including grandma, can feel good about.

Jackpocket is looking for an experienced, self-driven Operations Software Engineer that will help the company scale its operations systems as it expands into new markets. As a member of the operations tech team, you’ll be tasked with improving existing systems by building for durability, stability and scalability. With opportunities to work on technologies that range from embedded system development to full-blown ML, this position is perfect for a versatile engineer with a breadth of skills who craves variety.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside Developers and DevOps to ensure that the system is stable and scaling as designed
• Introduce and implement new features across the Jackpocket operations infrastructure. This includes:
• Retrofitting existing systems to add scalability and concurrency
• Implementing new devices to improve operational efficiency
• Composing Helm charts to simplify system deployment
• Participate in the architectural evolution of the Jackpocket system
• Profile systems to determine bottlenecks and to forecast system capacity
• Provide support to local lottery operations to ensure live systems are performing properly
• Work with the operations team, retailers, and the product team to implement requirements
• Document operations policies and instructions to aid in troubleshooting

Qualifications

• 4+ years of work as a Software Engineer or a comparable position
• Comfortable working with and developing for Linux systems
• Knowledge and experience with multi-threading, concurrency and building resilient systems
• Experience with Elixir, Python and Java
• Familiarity with Ruby and C++
• Experience with SQL and working with RDBMs such as Postgres
• Completed full lifecycle development, design, development, testing through to deployment
• Knowledge of functional programming and architectural design principles 
• Able to diagnose live systems and trace errors 
• 2+ years working with highly scalable systems
• Experience with Git and version control
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

Bonus

• Kubernetes and Docker experience
• Graphics and image programming
• ML, CNN and Tensorflow experience
• Knowledge of message queue systems
• Experience with networking technologies

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.