Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

TeamSnap is a sports and communication platform dedicated to taking the work out of play in youth sports. The company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to build scalable applications and services for millions of users, collaborate on product development, and support the reliability of distributed backend systems.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• • 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.
• TeamSnap is a fully remote company, so you need to be very comfortable working with people who aren't in the same time zone as you
• we can only hire permanent US residents at this time
• Extra points if you've built services for livestreaming, advertising, or subscriptions.