Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TeamSnap is a sports and communication platform dedicated to supporting youth sports organizations. The company is seeking a hands-on Staff Backend Engineer to build and scale backend APIs, services, and distributed systems, lead ambiguous technical initiatives, improve production reliability and performance, and mentor engineers across teams.
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and evolve backend APIs, services, event-driven workflows, queues, background jobs, data models, caching strategies, and integrations that support millions of users and thousands of sports organizations
- Own complex backend product and technical work from discovery through design, implementation, rollout, production support, and long term maintainability
- Lead ambiguous technical initiatives by breaking down problems, identifying risks, making practical tradeoffs, and helping teams move from uncertainty to clear execution
- Improve the reliability, scalability, performance, and operability of production systems through thoughtful architecture, strong testing practices, database optimization, caching, monitoring, alerting, and incident follow-up
- Debug complex production issues by reasoning across application code, databases, caches, queues, jobs, observability data, and the broader request lifecycle
- Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, Infrastructure, Platform, Data, Support, and other teams to turn roadmap needs into durable backend systems and practical delivery plans
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to give and receive constructive feedback, mentor engineers, influence cross-team alignment and articulate technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
Skills
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to give and receive constructive feedback, mentor engineers, influence cross-team alignment and articulate technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
- Strong Node expertise with experience building and maintaining production backend systems
- Staff level backend engineering depth, with a strong track record building and operating high-scale APIs, services, distributed systems, or shared product capabilities in production
- Strong command of backend technologies such as Node, TypeScript, Elixir, Ruby/Rails, Java, Go, Python, or similar, including runtime behavior, failure modes, and production tradeoffs
- Strong SQL and relational database judgment, including indexing, query optimization, migrations, profiling, data modeling, transactions, read and write patterns, and performance tuning
- Practical understanding of service-oriented architecture, event-driven architecture, queues, background jobs, webhooks, Redis or similar caching tools, and systems that need to scale under real production load
- Working knowledge of production infrastructure and platform concerns, enough to reason through deployments, containers, CI/CD pipelines, cloud services, networking basics, observability, and operational debugging
- Strong production ownership mindset, with the ability to use logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, incident reviews, and system behavior to improve reliability over time
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, mentor engineers, facilitate technical decisions, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and connect backend technical choices to customer impact, business needs, and long term maintainability
- 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
- Previous work in or close partnership with infrastructure, platform, SRE, DevOps, or data teams
- Familiarity with Elasticsearch, BigQuery, analytics pipelines, search infrastructure, reporting workflows, or high-volume data processing
- Responsible use of AI-assisted engineering workflows to improve debugging, testing, documentation, refactoring, prototyping, or developer experience without compromising quality or understanding
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave for all parents
- 100% premium coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families
- 401(k) plan
- $1,500 annual learning and development stipend
- Travel to locations for all-company meetings and team events
- Generous home office allowance
- TeamSnap SWAG upon starting and a $50 credit on every work anniversary thereafter
- Monthly stipend reimbursement for health and wellness
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