Playon is looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer who can own outcomes end-to-end across our HQ web application and the services it depends on. The HQ team builds the core administrative and operational experiences that support schools, partners, and internal teams across our ecosystem. Today, features can stall at the seams between frontend and backend, and contractor output needs strong technical leadership to meet our standards. This role helps collapse those seams by combining strong product-facing UI delivery with pragmatic API and service ownership.
You’ll help unify and strengthen HQ and the services behind it—building across a React-based frontend and a polyglot backend spanning Java, Go, and TypeScript/GraphQL with PostgreSQL—while improving how we deploy, scale, and operate on EKS with GitOps
As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you’ll build high-impact React surfaces and shape the underlying APIs and event-driven flows that power them. You’ll also help provide day-to-day technical direction and integration guidance for our FE/BE contractor pods to ensure quality and speed.
The outcomes you’ll deliver:
-High-quality HQ web experiences: Build scalable, maintainable React features and patterns that improve user experience and reduce cycle time.
-Cohesive UI + API designs: Turn product requirements into clear full-stack solutions with durable contracts and fewer integration surprises.
-Event-driven maturity: Strengthen cross-domain integrations using Kafka and reliable data fan-out patterns that support HQ workflows.
-Operational excellence: Ensure key services and flows are observable, resilient, and production-ready with meaningful dashboards, alerts, and reliability practices.
-Platform evolution: Help harden domain services and reduce unnecessary coupling to monolith surfaces without slowing product delivery.
-Team and contractor leverage: Establish patterns for component library usage, API contracts, test automation (e2e + contract tests), and delivery hygiene that other engineers and contractors can follow.
Company Overview
PlayOn is a dynamic growth-stage company dedicated to championing the spirit of play in the high school space. Backed by KKR, our family of brands—including GoFan, NFHS Network, and MaxPreps—empowers schools with innovative solutions and exceptional service. Our fan engagement platform is the only one that offers event ticketing, streaming, fundraising, concessions, merchandise sales, and website management in one place. We save administrators time so they can focus on what truly matters: supporting the students, staff, and fans who bring their programs to life.
Trusted by thousands of schools across the country, we're here to help create more instant replays, hold-your-breath moments, last-minute comebacks, and games you want to watch over and over again.
When being there means everything, we make sure you never miss a moment.
Why you’ll love working at PlayOn
Product, potential, and people. We’re a leader in the high school event space, constantly evolving our product to meet the needs of administrators. We focus on solving real challenges, learning quickly, and creating impactful solutions.
This is a growth-stage company, meaning your contributions have real impact. You’ll have opportunities to grow your skills, tackle meaningful problems, and make a difference in the lives of schools and the students and fans they serve.
Our culture is built on accountability, collaboration, growth, and fairness. We don’t just show up—we show up for each other. Everyone wears the same jersey, and we play hard, make the extra pass, and cheer one another on. Losses teach us, challenges motivate us, and persistence drives us forward. We value integrity over shortcuts, choosing to do what’s right even when it’s hard. Together, we strive to be better every day—because we know that’s how we win as a team.
The Benefits We Offer
Multiple medical insurance plans to choose from
Dental, vision life and disability insurance
Employee Emergency Fund
Company equity (stock options)
Open PTO policy
401K plan with company match
Hybrid/flexible work environment
Note: Must be a full-time employee to participate in the company’s employee health benefit plan. Part-time employees and interns are not eligible to participate.