Staff Backend Software Engineer, A-Team - GameChanger Remote

About GameChanger:

We believe in the life-changing impact youth sports have on and off the field because they 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.

The Position:

GameChanger's A-Team is responsible for acquiring and activating basketball teams at scale. The A-Team is responsible for team management, notifications, and third party integrations related to tournaments. As a Staff Backend Software Engineer, you’ll be responsible for setting the long term technical direction of what we own and help establish API’s third party integrations can connect with. You’ll also make architectural decisions within our backend in order to support our web, iOS, and Android clients.

What You'll Do:

• Develop and maintain scalable, robust, and efficient backend services.

• Drive changes to our API and SDK to facilitate server/client communication.

• Lead architectural decisions to ensure productivity + efficiency as our codebase grows.

• Improve existing systems' performance, reliability, scalability, and develop new features.

• Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

• Ensure system security and data privacy compliance.

• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge. …