Artificial Intelligence Engineer

EssentiallySports 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

EssentiallySports 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 GenAI 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, GitHub 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 / GenAI tools such as Claude, Cursor, GitHub 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 EssentiallySports to a global scale.