Job Description
Essentially Sports is the home for the underserved fan, delivering storytelling that goes beyond the headlines. As a media platform, we combine deep audience insights with cultural trends, to meet fandom where it lives and where it goes next.
Values
Focus on the user and all else will follow
Hire for Intent and not for Experience
Bootstrapping gives you the freedom to serve the customer and the team instead of investor
Internet and Technology untap the niches
Action oriented, integrity, freedom, strong communicators, and responsibility
All things equal, one with high agency wins
Essentially Sports is a top 10 sports media platform in the U. S., generating over a billion pageviews a year and 30m+ monthly active users per month. This massive traffic fuels our data-driven culture, allowing us to build owned audiences at scale through organic growth—a model we take pride in, with zero CAC.
Role Overview:
We are looking for an AI-Augmented Developer who uses modern AI and Gen AI tools as a core part of their development workflow. The ideal candidate has strong programming fundamentals and hands-on experience leveraging tools such as Claude, Cursor, Git Hub Copilot, MCP, or similar LLM-based tools to improve development speed, code quality, and overall engineering efficiency.
This role focuses on applied AI-assisted software development and contributing to wider AI adoption within the engineering team.
Responsibilities:
Develop, test, and maintain applications using AI-assisted development tools.
Leverage LLM-based tools to accelerate coding, debugging, refactoring, and iteration.
Build features end-to-end with a full-stack approach (frontend, backend, APIs, integrations).
Improve development speed, code quality, and maintenance workflows using AI.
Identify and propose opportunities where AI tools can enhance engineering processes.
Debug, validate, and fix issues in AI-generated code or workflows.
Collaborate with team members to promote best practices in AI-enabled development.
Stay up to date with evolving AI tools, frameworks, and development approaches.
Requirements:
0–2 years of professional experience in software development.
Strong understanding of programming fundamentals (such as Python)
Mandatory hands-on experience with AI coding / Gen AI tools such as Claude, Cursor, Git Hub Copilot, MCP, or similar.
Working knowledge of:
Debugging and validating AI-assisted outputs
LLM-based tools and prompt-driven development
Ability to demonstrate how AI tools were used to improve:
- Development efficiency
- Time to delivery
- Code quality or maintainability
Basic full-stack knowledge (frontend and backend concepts).
Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to experiment with new technologies.
“Very flexible and open, can ask anything anytime. Real mentorship and coaching. Superb energy in the whole ES team.” - when the team was asked how would you describe ES to a friend after a round of beers.
What do you get?
Fully Remote Job
Flexible Working Hours
Freedom to own the Problem Statements, and make your own solutions
Directly work with folks having experience in Booking, Amazon, Zomato, Expedia, etc., having seen state of the art engineering systems
Ability to deploy on production without any tests or approvals, a fully automated CI/CD and staging pipeline
Release features at scale to Millions of Users on Day 1
Freedom to work on multiple and new technologies
Bi-annual offsites which are coined “epic” by the team!
The tech team is small, which means your impact on the company’s success will be huge. You’ll have the chance to work with experienced leaders/founders who have built and led multiple product, tech and design teams, and grown Essentially Sports to a global scale.
Values
Focus on the user and all else will follow
Hire for Intent and not for Experience
Bootstrapping gives you the freedom to serve the customer and the team instead of investor
Internet and Technology untap the niches
Action oriented, integrity, freedom, strong communicators, and responsibility
All things equal, one with high agency wins
Essentially Sports is a top 10 sports media platform in the U. S., generating over a billion pageviews a year and 30m+ monthly active users per month. This massive traffic fuels our data-driven culture, allowing us to build owned audiences at scale through organic growth—a model we take pride in, with zero CAC.
Role Overview:
We are looking for an AI-Augmented Developer who uses modern AI and Gen AI tools as a core part of their development workflow. The ideal candidate has strong programming fundamentals and hands-on experience leveraging tools such as Claude, Cursor, Git Hub Copilot, MCP, or similar LLM-based tools to improve development speed, code quality, and overall engineering efficiency.
This role focuses on applied AI-assisted software development and contributing to wider AI adoption within the engineering team.
Responsibilities:
Develop, test, and maintain applications using AI-assisted development tools.
Leverage LLM-based tools to accelerate coding, debugging, refactoring, and iteration.
Build features end-to-end with a full-stack approach (frontend, backend, APIs, integrations).
Improve development speed, code quality, and maintenance workflows using AI.
Identify and propose opportunities where AI tools can enhance engineering processes.
Debug, validate, and fix issues in AI-generated code or workflows.
Collaborate with team members to promote best practices in AI-enabled development.
Stay up to date with evolving AI tools, frameworks, and development approaches.
Requirements:
0–2 years of professional experience in software development.
Strong understanding of programming fundamentals (such as Python)
Mandatory hands-on experience with AI coding / Gen AI tools such as Claude, Cursor, Git Hub Copilot, MCP, or similar.
Working knowledge of:
Debugging and validating AI-assisted outputs
LLM-based tools and prompt-driven development
Ability to demonstrate how AI tools were used to improve:
- Development efficiency
- Time to delivery
- Code quality or maintainability
Basic full-stack knowledge (frontend and backend concepts).
Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to experiment with new technologies.
“Very flexible and open, can ask anything anytime. Real mentorship and coaching. Superb energy in the whole ES team.” - when the team was asked how would you describe ES to a friend after a round of beers.
What do you get?
Fully Remote Job
Flexible Working Hours
Freedom to own the Problem Statements, and make your own solutions
Directly work with folks having experience in Booking, Amazon, Zomato, Expedia, etc., having seen state of the art engineering systems
Ability to deploy on production without any tests or approvals, a fully automated CI/CD and staging pipeline
Release features at scale to Millions of Users on Day 1
Freedom to work on multiple and new technologies
Bi-annual offsites which are coined “epic” by the team!
The tech team is small, which means your impact on the company’s success will be huge. You’ll have the chance to work with experienced leaders/founders who have built and led multiple product, tech and design teams, and grown Essentially Sports to a global scale.
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