Senior Backend Scalability Engineer

🔥 45 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Texas Sports Academy

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2 - 10 employees

📚 Education

⚽ Sports

Education • Sports

Texas Sports Academy is a private, Texas-based elite sports academy and accelerated school for student-athletes that combines AI-powered, mastery-based academic instruction with professional-level athletic training and life-skills development. Students complete core academics in a focused two-hour morning block using personalized, AI-driven learning, then spend afternoons (noon–4pm) training with former professional athletes and coaches while receiving instruction in leadership, financial literacy, NIL prep, and content creation. The organization operates multiple Texas locations (Carrollton, Houston, Plano), emphasizes faster academic mastery and athletic development for grades ~3–11, and positions itself as an alternative to traditional full-day schooling for serious student-athletes.

📋 Description

• Audit backend systems end to end, including services, APIs, databases, queues, and data flows • Identify bottlenecks, hot spots, design flaws, and scalability risks • Write clear audit reports explaining findings, impact, fixes, and resolution • Refactor code, redesign schemas, add caching, fix queries, and deploy production changes • Redesign backend components for scalability by introducing suitable patterns, splitting services where useful, and reducing unnecessary complexity • Optimize databases and data flows through query improvements, indexing, schema changes, and latency reduction • Work directly with engineers through pairing, reviews, and clean handoffs

🎯 Requirements

• Eight or more years of hands-on backend engineering experience • Senior-level fluency in Node.js or related languages; relevant infrastructure is in JavaScript/TypeScript • Fluency in Aurora or comparable relational database systems • Experience designing and scaling REST or GraphQL APIs • Understanding of caching, queues, background jobs, eventual consistency, and distributed backend failure modes • Experience with performance profiling and load testing under real-world load • Comfortable writing production code and taking responsibility for it • Strong written communication skills for producing actionable audit reports • Fully remote, open globally; reliable internet and a quiet workspace • Daily use of AI in workflows and comfort with AI coding tools • Bonus: experience leading system migrations, major refactors, or database sharding without breaking production • Bonus: demonstrated infrastructure or compute cost optimization wins

🏖️ Benefits

• Part-time consulting contract • Ongoing contract duration • Possibility of moving into a full-time role based on fit and results • Flexible part-time hours based on scope • Fully remote, anywhere in the world