Own and drive business-critical product areas including scorekeeping, fan experiences, and team management throughout our backend services.
Design, build, and operate scalable, high-performance backend services in production.
Lead projects and work with Product, Design, QA and other engineers to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
Evolve our APIs and service contracts to ensure performant, reliable communication between backend systems and client applications.
Contribute to architectural decisions that guarantee scalability, maintainability, and developer productivity as our backend systems evolve.
Identify and address performance bottlenecks, improve system reliability, and deliver high-impact new features in data-intensive domains.
Ensure security, data integrity, and privacy compliance.
Raise the technical bar through thoughtful code reviews, design feedback, and knowledge sharing.
Create and maintain clear technical documentation to support long-term maintainability and cross-team understanding.

Requirements

6+ years in a software development role.
4+ years of experience building production backend systems (Node.js, TypeScript, Python, or comparable backend technologies).
Experience leading technical design and implementation of complex backend systems or features.
Experience with API design, service boundaries, and data contracts.
Experience evolving and scaling a production codebase used by large numbers of users and multiple engineering teams.
Experience completing successful projects using TypeScript and Node.js, or another backend technology.
Experience designing and implementing scalable, performant backend services with strong reliability and observability practices.
Outstanding problem-solving skills and ability to communicate solutions clearly.
Experience with a system deployed in an AWS environment.
Enjoy building a collaborative atmosphere to create solutions to complex problems.

Benefits

Unlimited vacation policy.
Paid volunteer opportunities.
Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years after your start to make sure you have the latest and greatest technology.
WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.
Monthly physical, mental, wellness & learning stipend offered through Holisticly.
Monthly lifestyle stipend offered through Fringe.
Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and coverage for family/dependents.
Retirement savings - Traditional and Roth 401K plans are offered through Vanguard, with an immediate company match.
Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.
Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability.
Company paid parental leave - up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
Family building benefits offered through Progyny.
DICK'S Sporting Goods and their family of brands teammate discount.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

Node.jsTypeScriptPythonAPI designbackend systemsscalable servicesperformance optimizationdata integritysecurity compliancetechnical documentation

Soft Skills

problem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationleadershipknowledge sharingdesign feedbackproject managementcross-team understandingcritical thinkingadaptability