Job Description
Senior Backend Software Engineer, Core Services
About GameChanger:
We believe in the life changing impact youth sports have on and off the field. Sports encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence – important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports.
So if you love sports and their community building potential, or building cool products is your sport, GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.
The Position:
As a Senior Backend Platform Software Engineer, you’ll maintain the health of our API server codebase (including the developer experience of working on it) and proactively find ways to improve it. You’ll collaborate on and support the frameworks and SDK that underpin GameChanger’s development. Our backend APIs are built with TypeScript, Node.js, Redis, and PostgreSQL and run in AWS. You will take an active part in the changes to our server-side codebase to make it more performant, productive, and scalable. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager of Core Services.
What You’ll Do:
Implement changes to our API and SDK to facilitate server/client communication.
Introduce code patterns and tools to improve developer ergonomics.
Identify and improve inefficiencies within our backend codebase.
Participate in designing/redesigning critical parts of our system as our systems continue to scale and become more complex.
Learn best practices and share those with other engineers across the company.
Collaborate with peers within and outside of our team on critical decisions about how our applications are architected and built.
Investigate interesting challenges in scaling, security and architectural designs.
Participate in an occasional on-call rotation with the team.
Who You Are:
4+ years experience in software development with successful projects using TypeScript and Node.js.
2+ years experience writing scalable, testable, performant server-side code.
2+ years experience creating documentation that details how to break down projects and technical details for team members of varying expertise.
Willingness to mentor/train/work with other teams through documentation and live sessions on the best way to accomplish building features using the system we build/own.
Experience with version control and CI/CD systems such as Github, Bitbucket, and GitLab
Perks:
Work remotely or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY.
Unlimited vacation policy.
Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years to purchase new technology.
WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.
Snack stipend - $60 monthly to have snacks shipped to your home office.
Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA/HRA., and coverage for family/dependents.
Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.
Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability.
Retirement savings - 401K plan offered through Vanguard, with a company match.
Company paid access to a wellness platform to support mental, financial and physical wellbeing.
Generous parental leave.
DICK’S Sporting Goods Teammate Discount.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
The target salary range for this position is between $140,000 and $155,000. This is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes incentive, equity, and benefits for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all teammate pay regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay.
DICK’S Sporting Goods has company-wide practices to monitor and protect the company from significant compliance and monetary implications as it pertains to employer state tax liabilities. Due to said guidelines put in place, we are unable to hire in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC.
