Senior Backend Software Engineer- Core Services

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:

As a Senior Backend Platform Software Engineer youll maintain the health of our API server codebase (including the developer experience of working on it) and proactively find ways to improve it. Youll collaborate on and support the frameworks and SDK that underpin GameChangers development. Our backend APIs are built with TypeScript Redis and PostgreSQL and run in AWS. You will take an active part in the changes to our server-side codebase to make it more performant productive and scalable. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager of Core Services.

What Youll Do:

• Implement changes to our API and SDK to facilitate server/client communication.

• Introduce code patterns and tools to improve developer ergonomics.

• Identify and improve inefficiencies within our backend codebase.

• Participate in designing/redesigning critical parts of our system as our systems continue to scale and become more complex.

• Learn best practices and share those with other engineers across the company.

• Collaborate with peers within and outside of our team on critical decisions about how our applications are architected and built.

• Investigate interesting challenges in scaling security and architectural designs.

• Participate in an occasional on-call rotation with the team.

Who You Are:

• 4 years experience in software development with successful projects using TypeScript and .

• 2 years experience writing scalable testable performant server-side code.

• 2 years experience creating documentation that details how to break down projects and technical details for team members of varying expertise.

• Willingness to mentor/train/work with other teams through documentation and live sessions on the best way to accomplish building features using the system we build/own.

• Experience with version control and CI/CD systems such as Github Bitbucket and GitLab

Perks:

• Work remotely or from our well-furnished modern office in Manhattan NY.

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• Technology stipend - $4000 every 2 years to purchase new technology.

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

• Snack stipend - $60 monthly to have snacks shipped to your home office.

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

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

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

• Retirement savings - 401K plan offered through Vanguard with a company match.

• Company paid access to a wellness platform to support mental financial and physical wellbeing.

• Generous parental leave.

• DICKS Sporting Goods Teammate Discount.

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.

The target salary range for this position is between $140000 and $155000. This is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes incentive equity and benefits for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience location internal pay equity and other relevant business considerations. We review all teammate pay regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC