Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

TeamSnap is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) interested in working across the stack to join our fully distributed engineering team to help us continue our impressive growth from 2+ million daily active users to beyond! Our stack primarily includesNode.js, TypeScript, and SQL.

As an engineering team, we design and build scalable systems using a service-oriented and event-driven architecture that serve millions of daily users and some of the largest youth and amateur sports organizations in the world. Our team values collaboration in a remote culture, so we regularly participate in pair sessions and virtual team swarms to stay connected and improve the team and company.

What You'll Do:

• Develop engaging experiences for our millions of users across our mobile and web applications.

• Design and implement scalable apps and services, integrating these into an evolving unified product and system architecture.

• Brainstorm and evaluate new product features in collaboration with the product and UX team.

• Collaborate and pair with other developers to develop solutions and teach technical skills.

• Contribute to our development standards within the team and across engineering to ensure code quality, adherence to standards, and identify opportunities for improvement

• Champion and implement automated testing practices to uphold the dependability and stability of backend systems, while also taking ownership of the overall reliability of the team's services.

• Actively engage in on-call responsibilities and contribute to incident management efforts.

• Evaluate and test new technologies to help TeamSnap move faster or serve our users more effectively.

• Help teammates overcome obstacles, resolve blockers, and complete work tasks.

What Will Set You Up for Success:

• 5+ years of relevant experience, leading large projects on high-scale, distributed software systems as a software engineer

• Proficient in backend development with Node, Python, Golang, Ruby or similar.

• Experience with direct usage of SQL and relational databases such as MySQL / GCP Cloud SQL along with migrations, profiling, and optimization of such databases.

• Hands-on experience developing APIs, services for mobile applications and web clients at scale.

• Successfully delivered complex projects including debugging problems that may span a number of systems.

• Experience working with and architecting APIs, event streams, webhooks, etc.

• Experience working within and towards a distributed system.

• Extra points if you’ve built services for livestreaming, advertising, or subscriptions.