Full Stack Engineer

About Elevate

Elevate is an award-winning global sports and entertainment agency founded in 2018. We serve as the trusted advisor for over 1,000 clients, helping them solve complex challenges and drive business wins. Elevate’s services span sports, culture, attractions, culinary, and hotels, with more than 750 employees across 14 offices worldwide.

Where You Come In

We are transforming from a consulting company to a product-led organization. Join our rapidly growing engineering team that's setting the foundation for this transformation. You'll collaborate with talented engineers and product leaders to build and enhance our product platforms.

What You'll Bring

• Full Stack Expertise: 5+ years of experience building modern web applications across both frontend and backend technologies

• Frontend Skills: Proficiency with React, TypeScript, and modern frontend development practices including component architecture and responsive design

• Backend Skills: Strong experience with Python and web frameworks like FastAPI or Flask, along with RESTful API design

• Cloud Native Development: Experience building applications on AWS using services like Lambda, ECS, API Gateway, and Aurora PostgreSQL

• Database Knowledge: Proficiency with both relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL database systems

• Product Engineering Mindset: Understanding that technology exists to solve customer problems and create business value

• End-to-End Ownership: Comfort working across the entire stack to deliver complete solutions from UI to database

• Problem-Solving Approach: You start with understanding the problem deeply before jumping to solutions

• Experimentation Mindset: You value learning through rapid experimentation and embrace a "progress over perfection" approach

• Outcome Orientation: You measure success by business impact and customer satisfaction, not just by features shipped

• Communication Skills: Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Agency Experience: Experience working effectively with development agency partners is a plus

• Domain Experience: Background in transactional systems or data-intensive applications is a plus

How You'll Make An Impact

• Deliver End-to-End Solutions: Take ownership of features from conception to deployment, working across the entire technical stack

• Build Exceptional Experiences: Create intuitive user interfaces while ensuring the backend services that power them are reliable and performant

• Develop Scalable Architecture: Design and implement solutions that work seamlessly across our micro-frontend architecture and microservices backend

• Bridge Frontend and Backend: Serve as a technical bridge between specialized frontend and backend engineers, ensuring cohesive solutions

• Integrate with Partners: Build and maintain integrations with third-party services, APIs, and external systems

• Solve Real Customer Problems: Work directly with customers and stakeholders to understand pain points and deliver validated solutions

• Enable Rapid Experimentation: Quickly prototype and iterate on solutions across the stack to validate ideas before full implementation

• Champion Best Practices: Establish patterns for full-stack development that balance frontend user experience with backend reliability

Your Journey

• First 90 Days

  • First 30 Days: Deep dive into our existing architecture across frontend, backend, and infrastructure layers

  • Partner with the team to develop your personal roadmap for impact

• Days 31-60: Lead a significant feature implementation that spans both frontend and backend

• Days 61-90: Represent engineering in cross-functional planning meetings with a holistic technical perspective

Why This Role Matters

• Now Growing Team: Join a talented and expanding engineering team that's building the foundation for Elevate's product-led future

• Product-Led Transformation: Drive the shift to a product-led organization following the playbook of companies like Spotify, Airbnb, and Stripe

• Learning Culture: Grow alongside passionate engineers in an environment that values continuous learning and knowledge sharing

• Significant Impact: Your work will directly enable products that drive millions in revenue for our clients

• Autonomy and Ownership: Lead with significant autonomy while owning outcomes, not just outputs

Position And Benefits Details

• Compensation: $120,000,000 – $160,000,000 annual base salary plus bonus eligible

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Short-Term & Long-Term Disability Insurance + FSA, HSA, and more

• 401k Employer Match after meeting eligibility requirements

• 14 Paid Holidays

• Paid Parental Leave

• Hybrid work schedule

Sponsorship for Work Authorization is not available for this posting. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future.

An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs.

The qualifications listed above represent the credentials necessary to perform the essential functions of this position. To be successful in this position, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

To be considered for this role, please submit your resume and cover letter detailing why you are excited about joining Elevate and how your background aligns with the requirements of the position.