Top-quartile pay, published bands
Every role has a written salary band that you see in the first conversation, not after four rounds. We benchmark against Delhi NCR product companies twice a year and correct without being asked.
8 open roles · New Delhi · Remote
Come build the thing that decides who wins.
Every line of code here ends up on a scoreboard in front of a stadium full of parents. It is high-stakes, seasonal, unglamorous work — and there is no better feeling than watching 1,200 children get through a gate in nineteen minutes because of something you built.
Why work here
The parts of the offer we would want to read first
No table tennis table in the pitch. Here is what actually shapes a week at SportzContest.
Real ESOPs, four-year vest
Everyone from the support desk upward gets equity, with a documented buyback window every eighteen months. Two rounds of buyback have already happened — 34 colleagues have taken money off the table.
Health cover that includes parents
₹10 lakh family floater covering spouse, children and both sets of parents, with no waiting period on day one. Plus an OPD wallet and six free therapy sessions a year through a partner network.
Seasonal, honest hours
December and February are heavy — we say so upfront. In exchange, March and July are genuinely light, and everyone takes a mandatory ten-day block off after peak season. Comp-off is tracked, not folklore.
₹60,000 learning budget a year
Courses, conferences, coaching or a certification — you decide, your manager approves in a Slack message. Twelve colleagues used it for sports administration and officiating certificates last year.
Remote-friendly, office-anchored
Most roles are hybrid with two anchor days at our New Delhi office. Fully remote is available for senior engineering. Everyone flies in twice a year for a week-long team offsite, company-paid.
Life at SportzContest
A team that shows up on a Saturday morning
Not because anyone made them. Because the event is that day and the whole point is that it goes well.
Two ground days a year, for everyone
Engineers, designers, finance, legal — every single person spends two full event days at a customer venue. You will scan passes, watch a volunteer struggle with your interface, and come back with a list.
Written, then discussed
Decisions start as a two-page memo, not a forty-slide deck. Meetings begin with ten minutes of silent reading. It sounds odd for the first fortnight and then you never want to go back.
Blameless incident culture
When a leaderboard stalls during a final, we write it up within 48 hours and publish it internally. No names in the title, no performance conversation attached. Sixty-one reviews published so far.
Eleven languages in the room
Our customers write to us in Marathi, Tamil, Hindi, Bengali and more. So does the team. Support rotas are built around language coverage, and translation work is paid work, not a favour.
The Friday Contest
Every Friday at 5, someone runs a fifteen-minute contest on our own platform — quiz, table tennis ladder, a chess arena, a photo challenge. It is dogfooding disguised as fun, and the leaderboard is brutal.
Peak-season war rooms
For six weeks each winter we staff a rotating war-room desk from 6 a.m. to midnight. Rotations are voluntary, paid at 2x, capped at two per person, and nobody senior is exempt from the sign-up sheet.
Open roles
Eight seats we are trying to fill before the December season
Applications go to a real person. If you do not hear back within seven working days, write to Sneha directly and she will chase it.
Engineering
New Delhi · Hybrid
Full-time
Senior Backend Engineer — Go & PostgreSQL
Own the scoring and leaderboard services that handled 61,000 concurrent viewers last February. You will work on write-heavy ingestion from field devices, conflict resolution for offline score submissions, and a query layer that must never lie about who is leading.
You bring: 5+ years backend, strong SQL, comfort with distributed state. Band: ₹32–48 LPA + ESOPs.
Engineering
Remote (India)
Full-time
Mobile Engineer — React Native, Offline-First
The gate scanner app is the most used thing we make and the least forgiving. You will work on local queueing, conflict reconciliation, battery behaviour on ₹8,000 Android devices, and a UI a volunteer can learn in ninety seconds.
You bring: 3+ years React Native, real offline-sync experience. Band: ₹24–36 LPA + ESOPs.
Engineering
New Delhi · Hybrid
Full-time
Site Reliability Engineer
Our load profile is the strangest part of this company: near-flat for weeks, then a 40x spike between 8 and 11 a.m. on the second Saturday of December. You will own capacity planning, the deploy-freeze calendar, and the on-call rota that protects it.
You bring: 4+ years SRE/DevOps, Kubernetes, observability tooling. Band: ₹28–42 LPA + ESOPs.
Design
New Delhi · Hybrid
Full-time
Product Designer — Event Day Experience
Design for a person holding a clipboard in one hand and a phone in the other, in direct sunlight, with a queue of forty children in front of them. Reporting to Ritika. Expect to spend real days at venues, not just in Figma.
You bring: 4+ years product design, a portfolio with at least one hostile-environment interface. Band: ₹22–34 LPA + ESOPs.
Design
Remote (India)
Contract · 6 months
Motion & Brand Designer
Big-screen scoreboard graphics, medal ceremony stings, certificate templates and the sponsor overlays that keep our customers' funders happy. Six-month contract with a strong intent to convert to full-time.
You bring: After Effects or Rive, a reel with broadcast-style work. Band: ₹1.6–2.4 lakh per month.
Operations
South zone · Field-based
Full-time
Event Operations Lead — South India
Run the on-ground crew for championship-tier events across Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Telangana. Venue recces, scoring desk setup, volunteer training, and being the calm voice at 6 a.m. when the projector will not talk to the leaderboard.
You bring: 5+ years running large events, willingness to travel 10 days a month. Band: ₹18–26 LPA + ESOPs.
Customer Success
New Delhi · Hybrid
Full-time
Customer Success Manager — Schools
Own a book of roughly 180 school accounts from onboarding through their December meet and into renewal. You will train PT staff, build their first event with them on a call, and be their named human when something goes sideways.
You bring: 3+ years in CS or education sales, fluent Hindi and Marathi. Band: ₹12–19 LPA + ESOPs.
Sales
Delhi NCR · Hybrid
Full-time
Enterprise Account Executive — Federations & Universities
Long, relationship-heavy cycles with state sports bodies and university sports boards. Six to nine months, multiple committees, and a demo that usually happens in a room with no reliable Wi-Fi. Reporting to Mohammed Junaid.
You bring: 6+ years enterprise or government-adjacent sales in India. Band: ₹20–30 LPA fixed + uncapped variable.
Nothing here fits, but you want in?
Send us a note about the hardest event you have ever helped run — or the most interesting system you have built. We keep an open pipeline and have hired seven people this way.
Hiring process
Four conversations, about three weeks
No unpaid take-homes that eat a weekend, no whiteboard algorithm theatre, and no ghosting. We tell you the band in call one and the decision within seven working days of the last round.
Intro call · 30 minutes
With someone from the hiring team, not a screener reading a script. We cover what the role actually involves, the salary band, the seasonality, and what you are looking for. Either side can stop here with no hard feelings.
Craft conversation · 75 minutes
A working session on a real problem from our backlog — a scoring conflict, a check-in queue, a churning account. You talk, we talk, nobody is silently graded on a rubric you cannot see. Paid take-home available instead if you prefer async.
Team & values round · 60 minutes
Two future colleagues, at least one from outside your function. We are checking for how you handle a Saturday when a leaderboard freezes and a headmaster is standing next to you. Bring questions — this round is half yours.
Founder chat & offer · 45 minutes
Nikhil or Ritika, depending on the function. Then a written offer within 48 hours with the ESOP grant, vest schedule and buyback history spelled out. We also connect you with two people who joined in the last year, unfiltered.
Hiring FAQs
The questions candidates actually ask
If yours is not here, write to info@catalystwebtrendz.com and a human will reply.
Ask us somethingNo, and most of the team does not have one. Roughly a third have run or officiated events; the rest came from payments, ticketing, edtech and logistics. What matters is that you are genuinely curious about how a 26-event athletics meet is put together — the two ground days a year exist precisely to build that context.
For six weeks in December–January and three weeks in February, engineering and support run a war-room rota. If you sign up, expect one or two shifts of extended hours, paid at 2x, capped at two per person per season. Outside those windows we are a genuinely 40-hour company, and everyone takes a mandatory ten-day block off in March. We would rather you knew this before the offer than after.
Every offer includes a grant with a four-year vest and a one-year cliff. We show you the strike price, the current fair market value and the last two buyback prices in writing at offer stage. Two buybacks have already run — 34 colleagues participated, and the most recent cleared at 3.4x the 2022 strike. Exercise windows extend to five years if you leave after two years of service.
Senior engineering and most design roles can be fully remote anywhere in India — we currently have colleagues in Indore, Guwahati, Kochi and Jaipur. Customer success and event operations need to be within travelling distance of a cluster of customers, so those are city-anchored. Pay bands are national, not city-adjusted: the same role pays the same in Pune and in Bhubaneswar.
We are hiring
Find the seat with your name on it
Eight open roles across engineering, design, operations and sales. Real bands, real people on the other side of the form, and a decision in seven working days.