Staff Backend Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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TeamSnap

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2009

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

💰 Debt Financing on 2022-12

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

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 • Own complex backend product and technical work from discovery through design, implementation, rollout, production support, and long-term maintainability • Lead ambiguous technical initiatives by identifying risks, making practical tradeoffs, and guiding execution • Improve reliability, scalability, performance, and operability through architecture, testing, database optimization, caching, monitoring, alerting, and incident follow-up • Debug complex production issues across application code, databases, caches, queues, jobs, observability data, and request lifecycles • Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, Infrastructure, Platform, Data, Support, and other teams • Mentor engineers and raise the quality bar across the team • Shape the technical foundation behind TeamSnap’s product experience, focusing on backend systems, APIs, services, data performance, reliability, observability, and production quality

🎯 Requirements

• Strong Node expertise and experience building and maintaining production backend systems • Staff-level backend engineering depth • 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 • Strong SQL and relational database knowledge, including indexing, query optimization, migrations, profiling, data modeling, transactions, read/write patterns, and performance tuning • Practical understanding of service-oriented architecture, event-driven architecture, queues, background jobs, webhooks, Redis or similar caching tools • Working knowledge of production infrastructure and platform concerns, including deployments, containers, CI/CD pipelines, cloud services, networking basics, observability, and operational debugging • Strong production ownership mindset using logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, incident reviews, and system behavior • Ability to lead through influence, mentor engineers, facilitate technical decisions, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and connect backend choices to customer impact and business needs • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to give and receive constructive feedback • Familiarity with Elasticsearch, BigQuery, analytics pipelines, search infrastructure, reporting workflows, or high-volume data processing is a bonus • Responsible use of AI-assisted engineering workflows is a bonus • Must be a permanent US resident

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote company / remote-first work • Unlimited PTO • Paid parental leave for all parents • 100% premium coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family • 401(k) • $1,500 annual learning and development stipend • Travel to locations for all-company meetings and team events • Generous home office allowance • TeamSnap swag upon starting • $50 store credit on every work anniversary • Monthly health and wellness stipend reimbursement