[Remote] Staff Backend Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TeamSnap is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to build and evolve backend systems supporting its sports and communication platform. The role leads technical design and delivery, improves API and service reliability and performance, and mentors engineers while partnering 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
• Provide technical leadership across our Node ecosystem by advancing shared patterns, standards, tooling, and practices, and helping engineers make better Node-specific architectural and operational decisions
• Connect application architecture with platform, infrastructure, data, security, observability, and other adjacent domains, identifying concerns early and bringing the right teams into architecture, solutioning, and scaling decisions
• 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

Skills

• Deep, meaningful production Node experience
• Staff level backend engineering depth, with deep, meaningful production Node experience at scale and a strong track record of architecting, building, operating, and improving complex backend systems
• Deep Node and TypeScript experience, including strong understanding of runtime behavior, concurrency, failure modes, performance characteristics, production debugging, and the architectural tradeoffs involved in operating Node systems at scale
• Strong systems thinking, with the ability to connect application architecture and runtime decisions with platform, infrastructure, data, security, observability, and other adjacent domains, bringing those perspectives and teams into the process early as systems are architected, built, and scaled
• 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
• 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
• We can only hire permanent US residents at this time
• Previous work in or close partnership with infrastructure, platform, SRE, DevOps, or data teams
• Elasticsearch experience, particularly operating, scaling, troubleshooting, or designing search and indexing workloads in production
• Familiarity with BigQuery, analytics pipelines, 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 (not just primary or secondary)
• 100% premium coverage of medical, dental, and vision for you and your family
• 401K
• $1,500 annual learning and development stipend
• Travel to fun 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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