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Staff Backend Engineer

1 week, 1 day ago
United States
Full-time
Lead
Backend Engineer
Software Development
Elasticsearch Elixir GCP Go Java Microservices Node.js Python React Redis Ruby on Rails SQL TypeScript
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TeamSnap

TeamSnap

TeamSnap provides a comprehensive sports team management app that simplifies communication and organization for coaches, parents, and administrators involved in youth, recreational, and competitive sports.

Media
51-250
Founded 2009
$59M raised
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Description

  • Architect, build, and evolve backend APIs, services, event-driven workflows, queues, background jobs, data models, caching strategies, and integrations.
  • 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 tradeoffs, and driving execution.
  • Improve the reliability, scalability, performance, and operability of production systems through architecture, testing, database optimization, caching, monitoring, and incident follow-up.
  • Debug complex production issues across application code, databases, caches, queues, jobs, observability data, and the request lifecycle.
  • Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, Infrastructure, Platform, Data, Support, and other teams to deliver durable backend systems.
  • Mentor engineers, provide constructive feedback, and influence cross-team alignment on technical decisions.
  • Communicate technical tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Help raise the quality bar for backend systems, production quality, and maintainability across the team.

Requirements

  • Staff-level backend engineering experience 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.
  • Strong SQL and relational database experience, including indexing, query optimization, migrations, profiling, data modeling, transactions, read/write patterns, and performance tuning.
  • Practical understanding of service-oriented architecture, event-driven architecture, queues, background jobs, webhooks, and Redis or similar caching tools.
  • Working knowledge of production infrastructure and platform concerns, including 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, and incident reviews to improve reliability.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, mentor engineers, facilitate technical decisions, and connect backend choices to customer impact and business needs.
  • Previous work in or close partnership with infrastructure, platform, SRE, DevOps, or data teams is a bonus.
  • Familiarity with Elasticsearch, BigQuery, analytics pipelines, search infrastructure, reporting workflows, or high-volume data processing is a bonus.
  • Responsible use of AI-assisted engineering workflows for debugging, testing, documentation, refactoring, prototyping, or developer experience is a bonus.
  • Permanent U.S. residency and comfort working remotely across time zones are required.
  • Ability to work in a fully remote environment; TeamSnap does not hire in Alabama, Alaska, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, Rhode Island, South Dakota, or West Virginia.

Benefits

  • Minimum starting compensation of $200,000 inclusive of base and bonus, with overall compensation adjusted for experience, skills, certifications, and geographic location.
  • Fully remote, remote-first work environment.
  • Unlimited PTO and paid parental leave for all parents.
  • 100% premium coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family.
  • 401(k) to help you invest for the future.
  • $1,500 annual learning and development stipend.
  • Generous home office allowance.
  • Monthly stipend reimbursement for health and wellness expenses.
  • Travel to fun locations for all-company meetings and team events.

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