TeamSnap is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) interested in working across the stack to join our fully distributed engineering team to help us continue our impressive growth from 2+ million daily active users to beyond! Our stack primarily includes Node.js, TypeScript, and SQL.
As an engineering team, we design and build scalable systems using a service-oriented and event-driven architecture that serve millions of daily users and some of the largest youth and amateur sports organizations in the world. Our team values collaboration in a remote culture, so we regularly participate in pair sessions and virtual team swarms to stay connected and improve the team and company.
What You'll Do:
Develop engaging experiences for our millions of users across our mobile and web applications.
Design and implement scalable apps and services, integrating these into an evolving unified product and system architecture.
Brainstorm and evaluate new product features in collaboration with the product and UX team.
Collaborate and pair with other developers to develop solutions and teach technical skills.
Contribute to our development standards within the team and across engineering to ensure code quality, adherence to standards, and identify opportunities for improvement
Champion and implement automated testing practices to uphold the dependability and stability of backend systems, while also taking ownership of the overall reliability of the team's services.
Actively engage in on-call responsibilities and contribute to incident management efforts.
Evaluate and test new technologies to help TeamSnap move faster or serve our users more effectively.
Help teammates overcome obstacles, resolve blockers, and complete work tasks.
What Will Set You Up for Success:
5+ years of relevant experience, leading large projects on high-scale, distributed software systems as a software engineer
Proficient in backend development with Node, Python, Golang, Ruby or similar.
Experience with direct usage of SQL and relational databases such as MySQL / GCP Cloud SQL along with migrations, profiling, and optimization of such databases.
Hands-on experience developing APIs, services for mobile applications and web clients at scale.
Successfully delivered complex projects including debugging problems that may span a number of systems.
Experience working with and architecting APIs, event streams, webhooks, etc.
Experience working within and towards a distributed system.
Extra points if you’ve built services for livestreaming, advertising, or subscriptions.
Skills Required
- 5+ years relevant experience leading large projects on high-scale, distributed software systems
- Proficient in backend development with Node.js, Python, Golang, Ruby, or similar
- Experience with SQL and relational databases (MySQL/GCP Cloud SQL), including migrations, profiling, and optimization
- Hands-on experience developing APIs and services for mobile applications and web clients at scale
- Experience architecting and working with APIs, event streams, and webhooks
- Experience working within and architecting distributed systems
- Successfully delivered complex projects and debugged issues spanning multiple systems
- Willingness to participate in on-call responsibilities and incident management
- Champion and implement automated testing practices and own service reliability
- Experience building services for livestreaming, advertising, or subscriptions
What We Do
Founded in 2009, TeamSnap is the #1 platform for organizing youth, recreational, and competitive sports activities. Over 25 million users use TeamSnap’s web and smartphone apps to sign up, schedule, communicate and coordinate everything for the team, the club, and the season. TeamSnap makes organizing as simple as click, tap, and go.
Why Work With Us
We are mission-driven and use our powers for good, putting youth sports in the hands of kids who otherwise wouldn't have access. We spend far too much time at our jobs not to love where we work. If you have big ideas and a tiny ego, with a passion for helping others and working in an inclusive environment, please don't hesitate to apply!
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