About Anova Sports:

Anova Sports, a division of WFOGen, is a fast-growing sports tech startup building the future of basketball and team analytics. Our platform combines AI, large language models (LLMs), and data science to deliver insights for coaches, players, teams, and parents—reshaping how talent is scouted and developed. Anova Sports is the “Palantir of Basketball” - if you want to build technology that changes how the game is understood and played, this is the team to join.

About the Role:

We are looking for a full-stack engineer who ships production-grade web/mobile features end-to-end, designs clean architectures, and is fluent in asynchronous/parallel backends. As a soon-to-launch startup, we are searching for someone who works well in fast-paced environments, and can handle ambiguous situations/challenges with ease. A passion for sports is a plus, but not required.

Core Job Responsibilities:

• Build web UIs with React, using modern patterns (hooks, RTK/Zustand, router)
• Design Python services (preferably FastAPI/aiohttp) with async/await, background tasks, and streaming endpoints.
• Model and optimize PostgreSQL (schemas, indexes, migrations; performance tuning and query plans).
• Implement concurrency/parallelism: asyncio, task queues (Celery/RQ), workers, multiprocessing, and job orchestration.
• Develop near-real-time features (WebSockets/SSE), caching layers (Redis), and resilient retries/backoff.
• Own system and API architecture (modular boundaries, hexagonal/layered design, contracts, observability).
• Write solid tests (unit/integration/e2e with pytest/Jest); contribute to CI/CD and release automation.

About You:

Required Experience

• 3–5+ years building React web apps and Python backends in production.
• Strong async Python (coroutines, event loops, cancellation, backpressure) and practical parallelism.
• PostgreSQL expertise: normalization vs. denorm, indexing strategies, EXPLAIN/ANALYZE, transaction patterns.
• Comfort with task queues and schedulers (Celery/Beat, RQ), WebSockets/SSE, and Redis.
• Testing mindset (pytest fixtures, Jest/RTL), plus logging/metrics/tracing (OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Grafana).
• Docker + a major cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) and CI (GitHub Actions/GitLab CI).

Preferred Qualifications

• React Native (Expo/EAS, CodePush), mobile release pipelines.
• Message brokers/streams (Kafka/RabbitMQ), ETL/ELT orchestration (Airflow/Prefect).
• Security: authN/Z (JWT/OAuth2), secrets management, OWASP.
• LLM prompting and agent frameworks; prompt evaluation harnesses.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Base salary of $115,000 - $145,000 per year, dependent on experience
• Bonus of 10-15% of annual base salary, based on team performance
• Opportunities for equity in the future, dependent on performance and tenure
• High energy, collaborative environment with room to grow

Legal work authorization in the United States is required for consideration for this position.

Anova Sports is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences. Please let us know if you require accommodation due to a disability during any aspect of the recruitment process and we will work with you to address your needs.