Staff Software Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $169k - $185k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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GameChanger

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

⚽ Sports

☁️ SaaS

📱 Media

Sports • SaaS • Media

GameChanger is a sports technology company that provides a comprehensive app for live video streaming, scorekeeping, and team management for various sports including baseball, softball, basketball, football, volleyball, soccer, and lacrosse. The platform offers advanced scorekeeping features, in-app messaging, lineup sharing, and live streaming capabilities, making it a robust tool for coaches and fans alike. With its GameChanger Film Room and Streaming Kits, the company allows family and fans to never miss a moment of the action by following games in real-time from anywhere. GameChanger is a part of the DICK'S Sporting Goods family and partners with major sports organizations to enhance youth sports experiences. The app also features a content hub for company news and feature releases, and it promotes ease of use for coaches, players, and fans through its user-friendly interface and detailed insights.

📋 Description

• Lead technical design and delivery of integrations and API products • Partner with Engineering and Product leaders to shape technical roadmaps • Design, build, launch, and operate integration and API products hands-on • Establish standards and reusable patterns for API contracts, authentication and authorization, versioning, rate limiting, error handling, webhooks, documentation, and developer experience • Lead system design across GameChanger services and external systems • Address dependencies, failure modes, and tradeoffs involving performance, security, reliability, maintainability, cost, and future use cases • Define reliability, observability, support, incident-response, and service-health practices, including SLIs, SLOs, and operational metrics • Partner with Product and business stakeholders to clarify partner needs and prioritize technical investments • Serve as a technical bridge across backend, infrastructure, data, and client application teams • Evaluate build, buy, and integration options and communicate recommendations • Identify architectural risks and drive improvements to scalability, resilience, security, and ease of evolution • Improve design reviews, technical proposals, API lifecycle decisions, and architectural tradeoff documentation • Mentor engineers through pairing, design reviews, code reviews, and knowledge sharing • Build cross-functional relationships and drive decisions to clear outcomes • Participate in an occasional on-call rotation and own production systems

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, including hands-on technical leadership on complex, business-critical systems • Demonstrated experience building and operating integrations or developer-facing APIs as products • Deep knowledge of API design and lifecycle management, including authentication and authorization, versioning, backwards compatibility, rate limiting, documentation, and developer experience • Experience designing and evolving distributed, high-scale production systems with strong security, reliability, observability, and performance characteristics • Experience leading technical design and delivery of substantial initiatives spanning multiple teams or services, from problem definition through production operation • Experience defining production-readiness standards, service health metrics, incident practices, and longer-term reliability investments • Track record of aligning technical and non-technical stakeholders, resolving cross-team ambiguity, and connecting technical decisions to customer and business outcomes • Experience mentoring engineers, including senior engineers, and improving engineering practices across teams • Experience with third-party developers, strategic partners, API consumers, or platform ecosystems strongly preferred • Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Redis, and PostgreSQL preferred • Must be based in the United States and legally authorized to work in the United States • Must not require employment visa sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Work remotely throughout the US or from the modern office in Manhattan, NY • Unlimited vacation policy • Paid volunteer opportunities • Technology stipend of $4,000 every 2 years • WFH stipend of $500 annually • Monthly physical, mental, wellness and learning stipend through Holisticly • Monthly lifestyle stipend through Fringe • Full health benefits: medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and family/dependent coverage • Traditional and Roth 401(k) plans through Vanguard with immediate company match • Basic, supplemental, and dependent life insurance • Short-term 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 through Progyny • DICK'S Sporting Goods and family-of-brands teammate discount • Incentive and equity for eligible roles