Senior Backend Engineer

TeamSnap is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to build and maintain scalable systems for its sports and communication platform. The role develops mobile and web experiences, designs services within a unified architecture, and contributes to reliability, testing, and product development in collaboration with engineering, product, and UX teams.

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
• we can only hire permanent US residents at this time
• built services for livestreaming, advertising, or subscriptions