Staff Backend Engineer

TeamSnap
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 200,000+ annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Mentorship","Technical leadership","Influence","Clear communication","Production ownership"]

Build and evolve scalable backend APIs, services, and event-driven workflows for a remote engineering team serving millions of users and tens of thousands of youth-sports organizations. Own complex backend work from discovery through rollout and production support, debug issues across code, databases, caches, and observability data, and improve reliability, performance, and operability. Lead technical design in ambiguous areas and mentor engineers while partnering closely with product, infrastructure, platform, and data teams.

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TeamSnap
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Staff Backend Engineer

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Job Summary

Build and evolve scalable backend APIs, services, and event-driven workflows for a remote engineering team serving millions of users and tens of thousands of youth-sports organizations. Own complex backend work from discovery through rollout and production support, debug issues across code, databases, caches, and observability data, and improve reliability, performance, and operability. Lead technical design in ambiguous areas and mentor engineers while partnering closely with product, infrastructure, platform, and data teams.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Architect and build backend APIs, services, event-driven workflows, queues, background jobs, data models, caching strategies, and integrations.
  • •Own complex backend product work from discovery through design, implementation, rollout, production support, and long-term maintainability.
  • •Lead ambiguous technical initiatives by breaking down problems, identifying risks, making tradeoffs, and driving execution toward clarity.
  • •Improve reliability, scalability, performance, and operability using testing practices, database optimization, caching, monitoring, alerting, and incident follow-up.
  • •Debug complex production issues by reasoning across application code, databases, caches, queues, jobs, and observability data across the request lifecycle.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 200,000 annually
Perks:Paid LeaveParental LeaveHealth InsuranceDentalVision401kLearning BudgetHome OfficeWellness Stipend

Key Requirements

  • •Strong Node expertise building and maintaining production backend systems.
  • •Staff-level depth delivering and operating high-scale APIs, services, distributed systems, or shared capabilities in production.
  • •Strong command of backend technologies including Node, TypeScript, Elixir, Ruby/Rails, Java, Go, Python, with understanding of runtime behavior and production tradeoffs.
  • •Strong SQL and relational database judgment: indexing, query optimization, profiling, migrations, data modeling, and performance tuning.
  • •Practical understanding of service-oriented and event-driven architecture, queues/background jobs, webhooks, and caching (e.g., Redis), plus production infrastructure/observability knowledge.
Experience:BackendAPIsDistributed systemsEvent-driven architectureHigh-scale systemsObservabilityYouth sports
Skills:MentorshipTechnical leadershipInfluenceClear communicationProduction ownership
Tech Stack:NodeTypeScriptElixirRuby/RailsSQLReactJavaGoPythonElasticsearchBigQueryRedisQueuesBackground jobsWebhooksEvent-driven architectureService-oriented architectureCI/CDContainersCloud services

Company Brief

TeamSnap
Provides a sports team management platform and mobile app that helps coaches, managers, and parents organize schedules, messaging, payments, and player availability for recreational and competitive youth and adult sports teams.
Industry: SaaS
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Headquarters: Boulder, United States
Founded: 2009
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