EssentiallySports
Website:
essentiallysports.com
Job details:
About US
EssentiallySports is a digital sports media platform serving modern fandom. Primarily aimed at serving the American audience, ES is industry leading new-age media that has multiple products and IPs under its portfolio.
Over the years, the company has evolved from a traditional content publisher into a broader media ecosystem that includes editorial coverage, creator-led IPs, newsletters, branded storytelling, and fan-engagement initiatives.
Our work today is driven by one core principle, that of building sustained relationships with audiences, not just generating one-time traffic.
Role Overview:
We are looking for a Full Stack AI 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.
- 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 such as Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, MCP, or similar.
- Working knowledge of:
- Debugging and validating AI-assisted outputs
- 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.
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.
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