Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GameChanger builds products for youth sports communities. The Senior Full Stack Engineer will lead design and delivery of basketball features across web and backend platforms, including systems for live scoring, stats, and post-game experiences.
Responsibilities
- Build and improve backend services and APIs that support basketball scorekeeping, stats, and postgame experiences
- Extend existing endpoints and systems to support new product capabilities, including postgame editing
- Develop web features that make basketball box scores and stats accessible to coaches, families, and fans
- Own technical design and delivery for your projects, making architectural decisions that fit our existing systems and product needs
- Partner with mobile engineers to deliver backend capabilities that support iOS and Android experiences
- Collaborate with product, design, and engineers on the other Hoops team, Stats & Insights, and Gameday to deliver features across teams
- Write well-tested, maintainable code and improve the reliability and performance of the systems you work on
- Share technical knowledge through code reviews and mentorship, and contribute patterns and tools that help engineers work effectively
Skills
- Experience delivering backend services and APIs in production, with a strong grasp of software engineering fundamentals
- A track record of building applications with TypeScript and Node.js, plus experience developing web features with React
- Experience extending existing systems and writing scalable, performant code, with particular depth in backend development
- Ability to independently design technical solutions and lead projects from requirements through implementation and release
- Experience collaborating with product, design, and engineers across teams, including mentoring peers and contributing to technical decisions
- Interest in sports and the products that support them
- Familiarity with basketball, scorekeeping, or sports statistics is a plus
Benefits
- Work remotely throughout the US or from the well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY.
- Unlimited vacation policy.
- Paid volunteer opportunities.
- Technology stipend — $4,000 every 2 years after your start to make sure you have the latest and greatest technology.
- WFH stipend — $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.
- Monthly physical, mental, wellness & learning stipend offered through Holisticly.
- Monthly lifestyle stipend offered through Fringe.
- Full health benefits — medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and coverage for family/dependents.
- Retirement savings — Traditional and Roth 401K plans are offered through Vanguard, with an immediate company match.
- Life insurance — basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.
- Disability leave — short-term disability and long-term disability.
- Company paid parental leave — up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Family building benefits offered through Progyny.
- DICK'S Sporting Goods and their family of brands teammate discount.
- Incentive.
- Equity.
Company Overview
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