Staff Software Engineer
GameChanger6 hours ago
Base Salary
$169k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design, delivery, and operation of integrations and API products.
- Build and launch API products hands-on while establishing durable engineering patterns and standards.
- Define practices for API contracts, authentication and authorization, versioning, rate limiting, error handling, webhooks, documentation, and developer experience.
- Design systems across GameChanger services and external systems while managing dependencies, failure modes, scalability, security, reliability, performance, and cost tradeoffs.
- Establish reliability, observability, support, incident-response, service-health, SLI, SLO, and operational-metric practices.
- Partner with Product and business stakeholders to clarify partner needs, prioritize technical investments, and connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes.
- Mentor engineers, including senior engineers, and improve backend, API, design-review, code-review, and knowledge-sharing practices.
- Identify architectural risks, evaluate build-versus-buy and integration options, and drive cross-team decisions to clear outcomes.
- Participate in an occasional on-call rotation and model ownership of production systems.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software development experience, including hands-on technical leadership on complex, business-critical systems.
- Demonstrated experience building and operating integrations or developer-facing APIs as products.
- Deep knowledge of API design and lifecycle management, including authentication and authorization, versioning, backward compatibility, rate limiting, documentation, and developer experience.
- Experience designing and evolving distributed, high-scale production systems with strong security, reliability, observability, and performance characteristics.
- Experience leading substantial initiatives across multiple teams or services from problem definition through production operation.
- Experience defining production-readiness standards, service-health metrics, incident practices, and longer-term reliability investments.
- Experience aligning technical and non-technical stakeholders, resolving cross-team ambiguity, and connecting technical decisions to customer and business outcomes.
- Experience mentoring engineers and improving engineering practices across collaborating teams.
- Experience with third-party developers, strategic partners, API consumers, or platform ecosystems is strongly preferred.
- Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Redis, and PostgreSQL is preferred.
Benefits
- Remote work throughout the US or from the Manhattan, NY office.
- Unlimited vacation policy and paid volunteer opportunities.
- Technology stipend of $4,000 every two years and a $500 annual work-from-home stipend.
- Monthly physical, mental, wellness, learning, and lifestyle stipends.
- Health benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and dependent coverage.
- Traditional and Roth 401(k) plans through Vanguard with an immediate company match.
- Basic, supplemental, and dependent life insurance plus short-term and long-term disability leave.
- Company-paid parental leave of up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Family-building benefits through Progyny and a DICK'S Sporting Goods family-of-brands teammate discount.
- The company cannot hire in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, or SC.
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About GameChanger
GameChanger builds mobile apps for youth sports that provide live scoring, video streaming, stats, and team communication for sports like baseball and softball. The company monetizes through subscriptions for premium features and is part of DICK'S Sporting Goods after a 2016 acquisition. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York City, GameChanger’s platform supports millions of hours of youth sports livestreams and highlight clips each year.