Principal Back End Software Engineer (Java) - Location Flexible

Teamworks, the Operating System for Sports™, powers more than 6,500 sports organizations worldwide, including collegiate athletic departments and teams across all major professional leagues. With 300 exceptional employees located in ten different countries, Teamworks’ software solutions drive the operations of the most recognizable sports properties in the world.

Smartabase, part of the Teamworks product suite, is a human performance optimization platform designed to meet the needs of modern sports and military organizations. Currently integrated with more than 100 different technology products, Smartabase is an athlete management system that serves as the source of truth for physical performance data, medical record-keeping, and more. 

We are looking for a self-motivated and enthusiastic Principal Back End Engineer who can architect, develop, and optimize the market-leading solution for athlete performance management and help us scale it to support a rapidly expanding market. Expect to work on a system meant to rapidly ingest, aggregate, and help people make sense of real-time data coming from thousands of wearable devices at once.

This role is an excellent opportunity for the right candidate to pioneer the next frontier in human performance technology and to contribute to the continued rapid scaling of one of the fastest-growing companies in sports tech.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze product problems and system performance and use that to architect and develop secure, performant solutions that scale.

• Deliver quality, well-tested code to our API, web, and Java applications.

• Lead design and architecture discussions in a kanban-style environment.

• Establish and maintain coding standards and participate in code reviews.

• Automate away repetitive tasks, and help the team find opportunities for automation.

• Identify bottlenecks in process and performance to improve efficiency.

• Maintain the strength of the engineering team through mentorship, delegation, and collaboration.

• Produce useful and concise application and infrastructure documentation for appropriate audience.
  
  

Requirements:

• Experience with building enterprise SaaS applications developed in Java and AWS that operate at high scale for 100,000+ concurrent users.

• Experience in leveraging message queuing systems to enhance the scalability and reliability of applications, optimizing for high-volume data handling and real-time processing. i.e. (Kafka/RabbitMQ/AWS SQS).

• Experience in significant application re-architecture and refactoring to enhance application scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability.

• Experience in implementing and improving software release processes, including quality assurance, performance benchmarking, and automation.

• Experience in developing enterprise SaaS applications with a mind to consider memory consumption of features implemented and experience diagnosing JVM memory issues using heap forensic tooling.

• Experience with using …