Staff Backend Engineer

TeamSnap; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 158.423 - 193.628; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Unlimited PTO

Paid parental leave

100% premium coverage of medical, dental, and vision

401K plan

$1,500 annual learning stipend

Home office allowance

Travel for company events

Monthly health and wellness stipend

Zusammenfassung

TeamSnap is on the lookout for a talented Staff Software Engineer, Backend to join their fully distributed engineering team. The ideal candidate will architect and improve backend systems and APIs serving millions of users and organizations.

TeamSnap offers a remote-first culture with competitive compensation starting at $200,000. Employees enjoy unlimited PTO, comprehensive health coverage, and generous development stipends.

Qualifikationen

• Staff level backend engineering depth related to high-scale APIs and distributed systems.
• Strong command of backend technologies like Node, SQL, and Elixir.
• Practical understanding of service-oriented and event-driven architecture.

Aufgaben

• Architect, build and evolve backend APIs and services.
• Lead technical initiatives and improve system reliability.
• Mentor engineers and provide constructive feedback.

Kenntnisse

Backend APIs

Distributed systems

Node

TypeScript

SQL

Elixir

Ruby/Rails

Jobbeschreibung

TeamSnap is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Backend, to join our fully distributed engineering team and help us continue scaling systems that serve millions of daily users and tens of thousands of amateur sports organizations. Our stack includes Node, TypeScript, Elixir, Ruby/Rails, SQL, React, cloud-based services, event-driven systems, queues, background jobs, caching layers, and observability tooling.

We are looking for a hands-on Staff Backend Engineer who can build and improve APIs and services, reason through production issues across the system, lead technical design in ambiguous areas, mentor engineers, and raise the quality bar across the team. This person should be comfortable working closely with infrastructure, platform, and data teams without being expected to own those functions directly.

As an engineering team, we architect and build scalable systems using service-oriented and event-driven architecture. This role will help shape the technical foundation behind TeamSnap’s product experience, with a focus on backend systems, APIs, services, data performance, reliability, observability, and production quality.

What You’ll Do

• Architect, build, and evolve backend APIs, services, event-driven workflows, queues, background jobs, data models, caching strategies, and integrations that support millions of users and thousands of sports organizations.
• Own complex backend product and technical work from discovery through design, implementation, rollout, production support, and long term maintainability.
• Lead ambiguous technical initiatives by breaking down problems, identifying risks, making practical tradeoffs, and helping teams move from uncertainty to clear execution.
• Improve the reliability, scalability, performance, and operability of production systems through thoughtful architecture, strong testing practices, database optimization, caching, monitoring, alerting, and incident follow-up.
• Debug complex production issues by reasoning across application code, databases, caches, queues, jobs, observability data, and the broader request lifecycle.
• Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, Infrastructure, Platform, Data, Support, and other teams to turn roadmap needs into durable backend systems and practical delivery plans.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to give and receive constructive feedback, mentor engineers, influence cross-team alignment and articulate technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.

What Will Set You Up for Success

• Staff level backend engineering depth, with a strong track record building and operating high-scale APIs, services, distributed systems, or shared product capabilities in production.
• Strong command of backend technologies such as Node, TypeScript, Elixir, Ruby/Rails, Java, Go, Python, or similar, including runtime behavior, failure modes, and production trade-offs.
• Strong SQL and relational database judgment, including indexing, query optimization, migrations, profiling, data modeling, transactions, read and write patterns, and performance tuning.
• Practical understanding of service-oriented architecture, event-driven architecture, queues, background jobs, webhooks, Redis or similar caching tools, and systems that need to scale under real production load.
• Working knowledge of production infrastructure and platform concerns, enough to reason through deployments, containers, CI/CD pipelines, cloud services, networking basics, observability, and operational debugging.
• Strong production ownership mindset, with the ability to use logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, incident reviews, and system behavior to improve reliability over time.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, mentor engineers, facilitate technical decisions, communicate trade-offs clearly, and connect backend technical choices to customer impact, business needs, and long-term maintainability.

Bonus

• Previous work in or close partnership with infrastructure, platform, SRE, DevOps, or data teams.
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch, BigQuery, analytics pipelines, search infrastructure, reporting workflows, or high-volume data processing.
• Responsible use of AI-assisted engineering workflows to improve debugging, testing, documentation, refactoring, prototyping, or developer experience without compromising quality or understanding.

Compensation

We’re committed to equitable compensation for all TeamSnappers. The minimum starting point for this role is $200,000 inclusive of base and bonus, with compensation updated based on multiple factors. Our compensation is highly competitive in our space and we adjust overall compensation based on relevant experience, skills, certifications, and geographic location.

Location

TeamSnap is a fully remote company, so you need to be very comfortable working with people who aren’t in the same time zone as you. We are always expanding, but there is a small list of states we do not hire in, including Alabama, Alaska, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and West Virginia. We can only hire permanent US residents at this time.

Benefits

• Remote-first culture, long remote since 2009
• Unlimited PTO and paid parental leave for all parents
• 100% premium coverage of medical, dental, and vision for you and your family
• 401K plan
• $1,500 annual learning and development stipend
• Travel to fun locations for all-company meetings and team events
• Generous home office allowance to set you up for success
• TeamSnap swag to our store upon starting and a $50 credit on every work anniversary thereafter
• Monthly stipend reimbursement for health & wellness and so much more!

Equal Employment Opportunity

Inclusion and Diversity At TeamSnap, we are committed to inclusion and diversity. If you need any disability-related adaptation during the recruitment process, just let us know. We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.