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TeamSnap

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2009

☁️ SaaS

⚽ Sports

👥 B2C

💰 Debt Financing on 2022-12

SaaS • Sports • B2C

TeamSnap is a top-ranked team and club management platform designed to connect the world of youth sports. It offers tools for clubs, leagues, tournament organizers, and associations to manage their operations such as scheduling, messaging, and payments. The platform is widely used by coaches, players, and fans, and supports over 100 sports and activities. With over 25 million satisfied customers and 19,000 sports organizations, TeamSnap emphasizes ease of use, saving time for administrators and enhancing the sports experience for families through features like health checks and community building. The platform also provides opportunities for businesses to reach its engaged audience, making it a leader in sports management solutions.

📋 Description

• Architect, build, and evolve backend APIs, services, event-driven workflows, queues, background jobs, data models, caching strategies, and integrations that support millions of users and thousands of sports organizations. • Own complex backend product and technical work from discovery through design, implementation, rollout, production support, and long term maintainability. • Lead ambiguous technical initiatives by breaking down problems, identifying risks, making practical tradeoffs, and helping teams move from uncertainty to clear execution. • Improve the reliability, scalability, performance, and operability of production systems through thoughtful architecture, strong testing practices, database optimization, caching, monitoring, alerting, and incident follow-up. • Debug complex production issues by reasoning across application code, databases, caches, queues, jobs, observability data, and the broader request lifecycle. • Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, Infrastructure, Platform, Data, Support, and other teams to turn roadmap needs into durable backend systems and practical delivery plans. • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to give and receive constructive feedback, mentor engineers, influence cross-team alignment and articulate technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• Staff level backend engineering depth, with a strong track record building and operating high-scale APIs, services, distributed systems, or shared product capabilities in production. • Strong command of backend technologies such as Node, TypeScript, Elixir, Ruby/Rails, Java, Go, Python, or similar, including runtime behavior, failure modes, and production tradeoffs. • Strong SQL and relational database judgment, including indexing, query optimization, migrations, profiling, data modeling, transactions, read and write patterns, and performance tuning. • Practical understanding of service-oriented architecture, event-driven architecture, queues, background jobs, webhooks, Redis or similar caching tools, and systems that need to scale under real production load. • Working knowledge of production infrastructure and platform concerns, enough to reason through deployments, containers, CI/CD pipelines, cloud services, networking basics, observability, and operational debugging. • Strong production ownership mindset, with the ability to use logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, incident reviews, and system behavior to improve reliability over time. • Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, mentor engineers, facilitate technical decisions, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and connect backend technical choices to customer impact, business needs, and long term maintainability.

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO and paid parental leave for ALL parents (not just primary or secondary) • 100% premium coverage of medical/dental/vision for you and your family • 401K to help you invest for the future • $1,500 annual learning and development stipend • Travel to fun locations for all-company meetings and team events • Generous home office allowance to set you up for success • TeamSnap SWAG to our store upon starting and a $50 credit on every work anniversary thereafter • A monthly stipend reimbursement for health & wellness and so much more!