2 months ago
USA (city not specified)Senior
Base Salary
$185k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across APIs, database queries, calculations, and background jobs.
- Improve the data-access layer and evolve the legacy XML- and JSON-based data model.
- Strengthen queue and asynchronous processing architecture, including workload separation, near-real-time calculations, retries, and failure handling.
- Improve monitoring and observability and establish performance baselines for large workloads.
- Turn broad performance and scalability goals into technical plans and drive them through production independently.
- Partner with the Data Platform team to integrate new data capabilities into AMS.
- Review complex architectural changes, mentor engineers, and advise leadership on scaling priorities.
- Participate in an on-call rotation.
Requirements
- 6+ years of backend engineering experience, including ownership of complex systems from design through production.
- Strong Java skills and experience improving established codebases.
- Experience with PostgreSQL, RESTful API design, and performance optimization at scale.
- Experience operating backend applications in AWS and working with containerized infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- US citizenship and US-based residency are required for access to the secure environment.
- Preferred: experience transitioning monolithic applications toward containerized or service-oriented architectures.
- Preferred: experience in data-intensive, high-scale, or security-sensitive environments.
- Preferred: experience with Python, strong JVM knowledge, and troubleshooting memory and CPU issues under load.
- Preferred: DevOps background, deep AWS experience, and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
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About Teamworks
Teamworks builds an integrated software platform used by collegiate and professional sports organizations—as well as military and public-safety teams—for recruiting, athlete development, operations, communications, and branding. Its SaaS suite spans more than two dozen apps and includes INFLCR for athlete brand building and Smartabase for performance data, with a new AI copilot (“Ask Teamworks”) in development. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Durham, NC, the company is privately held.