Software Engineer Intern, User Growth

Youth sports offer important life lessons that propel kids toward meaningful futures, including a sense of family and community. GameChanger by DICK’S Sporting Goods works to connect families via live video streaming of games, scorekeeping and team communication tools for more than half a million teams. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City intent on improving youth sports for all and developing our own teammates.

OVERVIEW:

About GameChanger:

We believe in the life changing impact youth sports have on and off the field. Sports encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence – important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports.

So if you love sports and their community building potential, or building cool products is your sport, GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.

Kick-start your career at GameChanger! Serving youth sports communities, our app is used to score and live stream millions of games each year. Join us for a 2025 paid internship where you will grow your skills for the road that lies ahead. Our program starts on June 9th and will run for 10 weeks, concluding on August 15th.

The Position:

Join GameChanger and be part of the user growth team that discovers and improves ways to help new users discover and adopt our platform. The user growth’s mission is to help give coaches, athletes, and family members the confidence that GameChanger is the right platform to elevate their game-day experience, share team moments, and build lasting sports memories.

Working across web and native mobile applications, you’ll focus on the entire top-of-funnel to attract and activate new users through awareness, sign up, and activation points. You’ll push code that touches millions of potential and current GameChanger users. Technologies include: TypeScript, ReactJS, Python, Swift, or Kotlin.

What You'll Do:

• Ship projects over 10 weeks with autonomy and support.

• Work cross-functionally with several teams.

• Learn how to contribute to a data-driven impact model.

• Grow your skills and career in an exciting and meaningful space.

• Work with great people, an awesome product, and lots of fun together along the way!

Who You Are:

• Experience approaching a problem from different angles, analyzing pros and cons of different solutions and drive to learn new technologies.

• Curious and empathetic.

• You are pursuing a Bachelor’s degree or an MBA, or looking to make a career change.

What To Expect:

• 10 weeks of experience working on an app that is used by millions of people.

• $50 per hour pay for your contributions.

• A trip to NYC for orientation week at GameChanger HQ.

• MacBooks provided for the duration of the internship by GC.

• Mentorship from other GC teammates to guide you through the experience.

• Ability to work remotely throughout the US so you can enjoy your summer from wherever you choose*.

• Build industry connections with intern peers and GC teammates.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

*DICK’S Sporting Goods has company-wide practices to monitor and protect the company from significant compliance and monetary implications as it pertains to employer state tax liabilities. Due to said guidelines put in place, we are unable to hire in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: All official recruitment communications from GameChanger will come from an email address ending in @gc.com and/or no-reply@ashby.hq.com. If you receive communication from any other domain, please be cautious, as it is likely fraudulent.

QUALIFICATIONS:

What We’re Looking For In You:

• Pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

• Interest and ability to learn new programming languages & tools.

• Organized, curious, and proactive team player who is results-oriented.

• Great communicator and enthusiastic about using technology to enhance people’s lives.

• Big plus if you have experience developing with parts of our tech stack: iOS, Android, node.js, and more!

What’s In It For You:

• 10-12 weeks of experience working with a real product team on an app that is used by millions of people. - $40 per hour pay for your contributions.

• Hands-on learning with a modern tech stack & architecture.

• Working remotely, and enjoying your summer from wherever you choose to in the country.

• Building industry connections with intern peers & GC employees, and a trip to NYC to our main office (assuming it is safe to do so).

• MacBooks provided for the duration of the internship by GC.

• Building things that get released. No time will be wasted on pet projects that never see the light of day. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.