Why this grade
This listing scored 34/100, which is an F. It lost the most ground on freshness.
- Remote clarity 15 / 15 Whether "remote" means anywhere, or is quietly restricted to one country.
- Description depth 14 / 20 How much the posting actually says about the work, measured in characters of real text.
- Pay transparency 12 / 25 A published salary range, worth more than any other single factor because it is what a candidate cannot find out without applying.
- Corroboration 5 / 10 Whether more than one source carries this listing.
- Role specificity 3 / 10 Whether the listing is tagged well enough to tell what the role actually is.
- Freshness 0 / 15 How recently it was posted. Older postings are likelier to be filled or abandoned.
-15 Ghost-job penalty — Deducted for signals that this posting may not be a real, currently-open role — staleness, repeated relisting, or talent-pool language.
Every figure above is arithmetic over the posting itself — its salary field, its text, its age, its tags and how many sources carry it. How the grades work →
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We’re a venture-backed e-commerce marketplace and media network for youth and high school sports. We’ve moved from zero to one with real revenue and are now looking for a Senior Engineer to help us scale to serve the 65M American families in this space.
Our Stack: Elixir/Phoenix (LiveView), PostgreSQL, Oban, Next.js, Meilisearch, Vercel and Claude Code.
What you’ll do:
Lead product/engineering initiatives and own outcomes end-to-end.
Design for scale: We handle high transaction volumes and need someone who can tune relational databases for millions of rows.
Make pragmatic tradeoffs between shipping speed and long-term system health.
Work in a high-trust, AI-assisted environment where you drive the vision.
What we’re looking for:
7+ years of experience building/maintaining high-traffic, full-stack systems.
Expertise in Elixir or an equivalent functional/concurrent stack.
Strong foundation in observability, cloud infrastructure (AWS), and incident response.
Clear communication—you can turn complex technical ideas into diagrams and strategy.
Compensation: $120k–$190k base + meaningful equity.
Note: You must be located in the US and you must be authorized to work permanently in the US to be considered for this role.
Interested? Send your resume (emails with no resumes will not be read) and a link to your GitHub or a project you're proud of to [email protected] with "Senior Software Engineer — [Your Name]" in the subject line.
Apply for this role Opens youth.inc — the employer's own page, as linked by the source that listed this role
Where this listing came from
- 25 Jul 2026 Hacker News first sighting
Seen on 1 board over 9 days.