Tech Lead - Experiences

About ELEVATE Elevate is a full-service consulting firm that inspires high-performing organizations to find their limits and push past them. With expertise in brand consulting, sales strategy, data-driven insights, and talent optimization, Elevate gives its clients a competitive edge in the fight for people’s precious time and attention. Established in 2018, Elevate set out to help sports teams and leagues spark innovation and drive performance. In the years since, the world of sports has transformed, today standing at the convergence of media, entertainment, and consumer brands, with Elevate supporting some of the world’s most ambitious businesses across these sectors. Elevate’s proprietary technology, data sources, and software products combined with our thoughtful insights, and people-centric approach give clients a 360-degree view of their customers, underpinning intelligent decision-making on marketing spend, growth strategy, and more. Our team of 300+ employees spans the globe with in 20 locations worldwide. We value recruiting diverse individuals to our team to bring new perspectives to our company and look forward to learning more about you in the recruitment process. To learn more and see what we’ve been up to, follow Elevate on X, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Role Overview Elevate is embarking on an exciting transformation journey from a non-tech company to a product-led organization where our technology will become a primary revenue driver. This is a rare opportunity to help shape the future of our engineering culture, practices, and products. As one of our first in-house engineering hires for the Experiences product, you'll work directly with our Head of Engineering to build our next-generation Experiences platform from the ground up. This platform will revolutionize how we create, manage, and deliver curated event packages - combining tickets, hotel accommodation, transportation, and luxury add-ons into seamless customer experiences. You'll be building both internal tools for our experiences team and customer-facing applications that showcase and sell premium event packages. You’ll work the following technology: Frontend: React, TypeScript, MUI, Backend: Python (Flask, FastAPI), Infrastructure: AWS (ECS, Lambda, Aurora PostgreSQL, API Gateway, S3), Payments: Stripe integration, Data Architecture: Redshift for analytics, Glue for ETL, Development Practices: Microservices architecture, micro-frontends, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code Key Responsibilities

• Hands-On Technical Leadership: Write high-quality code while also guiding the technical direction of the Experiences platform
• Advise Leadership: Provide technical guidance to Elevate leadership on key technology decisions and product roadmap considerations
• Roadmap Development: Develop and execute against both short and long-term roadmaps, making effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and technical sustainability
• Build Customer-Centric Products: Organize teams around customer problems rather than features, using rapid experimentation to validate solutions before investing heavily in them
• Develop Engineering Culture: Help establish a product engineering culture centered on outcomes, not outputs, where engineers are empowered to solve problems, not just build features
• Partner with Agency Teams: Effectively collaborate with our agency partners, leveraging their expertise while guiding the technical direction
• Create Scalable Solutions: Build high-quality, maintainable software that can scale with our business while maintaining the agility to pivot as we learn
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to ensure our technical solutions deliver business value

Qualifications, Skills & Attributes

• 7+ years of software development experience, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership role
• You're still passionate about writing code and can lead by example with hands-on development
• Strong experience with modern web development technologies including React, TypeScript, and Python web frameworks (Flask, FastAPI)
• Experience designing and building scalable applications on AWS using services like ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, and Aurora
• You understand that technology exists to solve customer problems and create business value
• You can design solutions that balance technical considerations with business needs
• You measure success by business impact and customer satisfaction, not by features shipped or lines of code written
• You start with understanding the problem deeply before jumping to solutions
• You value learning through rapid experimentation and embrace a "progress over perfection" approach
• You can clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience working effectively with development agency partners is a plus
• Background in travel booking systems, hospitality platforms, or package management systems is highly valuable
• Experience with payment processing, cart systems, and e-commerce workflows is a plus

Position And Benefits Details

• Full Time, Exempt
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Short-Term & Long-Term Disability Insurance + FSA, HSA, and more
• 401k Employer Match after meeting eligibility requirements
• 14 Paid Holidays
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid Parental Leave

Working Conditions_Travel Requirements_

• Occasional travel may be required

Physical Demands

• Extensive work in front of a screen

Work Environment

• This role is remote, with the potential for a hybrid work arrangement in the following cities: New York, NY; Santa Clara, CA; Charlotte, NC; Salt Lake City, UT; or Nashville, TN.

We're looking for engineers who want to do the best work of their careers while transforming how the sports and entertainment industry operates. At Elevate, you'll have the freedom to solve meaningful problems, the support to grow as a leader, and the satisfaction of seeing your work impact millions of fans. If you're ready to help shape our product-led future, we'd love to connect. 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. This range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in San Francisco, New York City, Charlotte, Salt Lake City or Nashville. 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. This position is open to all qualified candidates. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability in connection with the application process, you may contact us at HR@oneelevate.com We are proud to be an equal opportunity/veterans/disabled/ LGBT employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.