Founding Software Engineer

We’re hiring a Founding Engineer in NYC!At PlayMaker, we’re building the operating system for sports sponsorship. We help clubs, leagues, and brands run smarter commercial partnerships businesses across pipeline management, inventory, activation, and reporting.We’re already working with professional sports teams including Austin FC, San Diego Wave FC and Mercury13, and we’re now looking for an exceptional engineer to join our founding team in New York.This is a customer-facing role - combining traditional engineering expertise with product-sense and strong communication skills. You’ll work directly with other members of our founding team to own features end-to-end; from customer requests, to product discussion, implementation, testing, rollout, and iteration.We are looking for someone who:thinks like an ownercommunicates clearlycares deeply about product qualitycan operate comfortably in ambiguitywants direct exposure to customers and product decisions Our stack includes:PythonTypeScript / ReactFirebase / FirestoreGCPBigQuery You’ll have outsized influence on:our engineering cultureproduct directioncustomer experiencehow we scale as a companyWe’re looking for someone who’s excited by small teams, high ownership, and building alongside founders in-person in NYC.📍New York City (4–5 days/week in office)💰Up to $180k base + meaningful equityAbout usWe are a tight-knit team with backgrounds in sports partnerships, marketing, AI, and engineering. We love solving problems together for our customers, who range from MLS teams to minor league teams. We run in-person events and are all very social. It's a perfect balance of fun and focused work.Join us!JLB is exclusively retained by PlayMaker to run this search. For all enquiries please contact dan@jlbsearch.com.