Overview
Technologies
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Products
People
Growth
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Overview

The Athletic is a subscription-based sports news website that provides in-depth coverage of major professional sports leagues, including the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and more. The company's goal is to provide fans with a more comprehensive and engaging sports experience than traditional media outlets. The Athletic was founded in 2016 and has quickly become one of the most popular sports news websites in the world.

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at The Athletic over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
20
Postings analysed
10
Stack modernity
72/100
Languages
PHP30%
Swift20%
Python10%
SQL10%
Frameworks & libraries
Combine20%
SwiftUI20%
Cloud & platforms
AWS20%
AWS Lambda20%
Amazon ECS20%
Amazon S320%
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Full The Athletic tech stack 20 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
77/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
11
3 opened / 5 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
61 days
faster than 21% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
18%
Mobile
12% ▲
DevOps
12% ▼
Leadership
12% ▼
Communications
12% ▼
Design
12% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: United States Oct 2026
Added Salesforce to stack Oct 2026
Added SQL to stack Oct 2026
Added Python to stack Oct 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Oct 2026
Added Outlook to stack Sep 2026
Added SwiftUI to stack Sep 2026
Added Swift to stack Sep 2026
Added GraphQL to stack Sep 2026
Added Combine to stack Sep 2026
Removed Windows from stack Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
New York
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San Francisco United States
HQ
New York United States
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days
hires for Sales
seen since Apr 2026 job postings
Earlier presence
London, United Kingdom 2 open roles · last posting Sep 2026
Manchester, United Kingdom 1 open roles · last posting Jun 2026

Jobs

Remote (United States) • Internship • United States
Claude Code
Design
Figma
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≈ $75k – $164k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States, Canada) • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • United States
Python
SQL
Machine Learning
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≈ $118k – $220k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States, Canada) • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • United States
Swift
GraphQL
Mobile
SwiftUI
Combine
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≈ $57k – $163k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States, Canada) • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • United States
Swift
GraphQL
Mobile
SwiftUI
Combine
Apply