Senior Backend Software Engineer- Core Services

GameChanger is a remote-first technology company focused on building products that elevate youth sports and support its community. The Senior Backend Software Engineer will maintain and improve the API server codebase, frameworks, and SDK while enhancing performance, scalability, developer productivity, security, and system architecture.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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