Senior Software Engineer, Trust and Safety

About GameChanger:

We believe in the life changing impact youth sports have on and off the field. Sports encourage leadership teamwork responsibility and confidence important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches parents and volunteers organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports.

So if you love sports and their community building potential or building cool products is your sport GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote first dynamic tech company based in New York City and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.

The Position:

At GameChanger our Trust & Safety team is dedicated to pioneering solutions that ensure a secure and trustworthy platform for our users. Our mission is to give parents and coaches the confidence that GC is the right platform for their team by implementing clear policies building the right features and fostering a culture of accountability and transparency across GameChanger.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about building tools and systems that safeguard user data and enhance our this role you will lead initiatives to develop and optimize critical tools and systems for the Trust & Safety team. Your expertise in both frontend and backend development will drive innovations that address complex security challenges and reinforce user confidence in our platform. You will report to the Trust & Safety Engineering Manager.

This is an exceptional opportunity to shape the future of our platforms safety and security. Youll be instrumental in developing innovative solutions that protect our users and build trust. Youll work with a talented team and have the chance to drive impactful changes in a critical area of our business.

What Youll Do:

• Own and drive business-critical product areas including scorekeeping fan experiences and team management throughout our backend services.

• Design build and operate scalable high-performance backend services in production.

• Lead projects and work with Product Design QA and other engineers to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

• Evolve our APIs and service contracts to ensure performant reliable communication between backend systems and client applications.

• Contribute to architectural decisions that guarantee scalability maintainability and developer productivity as our backend systems evolve.

• Identify and address performance bottlenecks improve system reliability and deliver high-impact new features in data-intensive domains.

• Ensure security data integrity and privacy compliance.

• Raise the technical bar through thoughtful code reviews design feedback and knowledge sharing.

• Create and maintain clear technical documentation to support long-term maintainability and cross-team understanding.

Who You Are:

• Experience evolving and scaling a production codebase used by large numbers of users and multiple engineering teams.

• Experience completing successful projects using TypeScript and or another backend technology.

• Experience designing and implementing scalable performant backend services with strong reliability and observability practices.

• Experience building scalable backend systems that transform complex data into real-time user-facing product features.

• A leader willing to take ownership for the success of the team.

• Outstanding problem-solving skills and ability to communicate solutions clearly.

• Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across a team.

• Enjoy building a collaborative atmosphere to create solutions to complex problems.

Experience:

We build our backend APIs with TypeScript Python Redis and PostgreSQL and run them in AWS.

• 6 years in a software development role.

• 4 years of experience building production backend systems ( TypeScript Python or comparable backend technologies).

• Experience leading technical design and implementation of complex backend systems or features.

• Experience with API design service boundaries and data contracts.

• We prefer experience with TypeScript.

• We prefer experience with a system deployed in an AWS environment.

• Bonus (not required): Experience with frontend web development or data engineering.

Perks:

• Work remotely throughout the US* or from our well-furnished modern office in Manhattan NY.

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• Paid volunteer opportunities.

• Technology stipend - $4000 every 2 years after your start to make sure you have the latest and greatest technology.

• WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.

• Monthly physical mental wellness & learning stipend offered through Holisticly.

• Monthly lifestyle stipend offered through Fringe.

• Full health benefits - medical dental vision prescription FSA HRA HSA and coverage for family/dependents.

• Retirement savings - Traditional and Roth 401K plans are offered through Vanguard with an immediate company match.

• Life insurance - basic life supplemental life and dependent life.

• Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability.

• Company paid parental leave - up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.

• Family building benefits offered through Progyny.

• DICKS Sporting Goods and their family of brands teammate discount.

The target salary range for this position is between $160000 and $180000. This is part of a total compensation package that includes incentive equity and benefits for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by several factors including experience internal pay equity and other relevant business considerations. We constantly review all teammate pay to ensure a great compensation package that is fair and equal across the board.

* DICKS Sporting Goods has company-wide practices to monitor and protect the company from significant compliance and monetary implications as it pertains to employer state tax liabilities. Due to said guidelines put in place we are unable to hire in AK DE HI IA LA MS MT OK and SC.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status.

Our Interview Process & AI

We recognize that AI has become a common part of everyday life and professional work and its use continues to evolve rapidly. Our perspective on AI in the hiring process will evolve as well. At this time we ask that candidates please refrain from using AI tools during interviews and assessments as we want to see your authentic self. We will clearly indicate if and when AI use is acceptable in the process. If you have any questions or need accommodations were here to help. Thanks for helping us keep the process fair and secure for everyone!

IMPORTANT NOTICE: All official recruitment communications from GameChanger will come from an email address ending in @ or If you receive communication from any other domain please be cautious as it is likely fraudulent.

Required Experience:

Senior IC