Staff Backend Engineer

TeamSnap; United States; On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Unlimited PTO

Medical/dental/vision coverage

401K

Job summary

TeamSnap is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Backend, to join our fully distributed engineering team and help scale services used by millions of daily users and thousands of sports teams. Our backend stack includes Node and TypeScript, plus Elixir, SQL, cloud services, queues, and caching.

You will architect, build, and operate durable backend systems with reliability and performance in mind. We offer equitable compensation with a minimum starting point of $200,000 total, a remote-first

Qualifications

• Extensive backend experience with scalable systems.
• Strong knowledge of Node.js/TypeScript and Elixir.
• Experience with relational databases (SQL) and caching.
• Ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve backend APIs, services, and data models.
• Own complex backend work from discovery to rollout and support.
• Lead technical initiatives and drive clear execution with tradeoffs.
• Provide Node ecosystem leadership and promote best practices.
• Collaborate across Product, Design, Infrastructure, Data, and Support.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

Elixir

SQL

Caching

Observability

Event-driven

Tools

Redis

Elasticsearch

BigQuery

Job description

About Us

At TeamSnap, we believe when the world connects through sports; the world becomes better. TeamSnap is a sports and communication platform dedicated to taking the work out of play in youth sports. We also believe our jobs should excite us, our teammates should support us and our bosses should inspire us. We empower our people to bring big ideas and tiny egos, landing us on Outside Magazine’s list of “Best Places to Work” and Built In’s “100 Best Remote-First Places to Work.”.

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 primary backend stack includes Node and TypeScript, alongside Elixir, SQL, cloud-based services, event-driven systems, queues, background jobs, caching layers, and observability tooling.

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.


• Provide technical leadership across our Node ecosystem by advancing shared patterns, standards, tooling, and practices, and helping engineers make better Node-specific architectural and operational decisions.


• Connect application architecture with platform, infrastructure, data, security, observability, and other adjacent domains, identifying concerns early and bringing the right teams into architecture, solutioning, and scaling decisions.


• 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 deep, meaningful production Node experience at scale and a strong track record of architecting, building, operating, and improving complex backend systems.


• Deep Node and TypeScript experience, including strong understanding of runtime behavior, concurrency, failure modes, performance characteristics, production debugging, and the architectural tradeoffs involved in operating Node systems at scale.


• Strong systems thinking, with the ability to connect application architecture and runtime decisions with platform, infrastructure, data, security, observability, and other adjacent domains, bringing those perspectives and teams into the process early as systems are architected, built, and scaled.


• 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 tradeoffs 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.


• Elasticsearch experience, particularly operating, scaling, troubleshooting, or designing search and indexing workloads in production.


• Familiarity with BigQuery, analytics pipelines, 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 comp updated based on multiple factors. Our comp is highly competitive in our space and we adjust overall comp 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 West Virginia and Utah and while we love all parts of the world, we can only hire permanent US residents at this time.

Opportunities to Grow

At TeamSnap, we work hard to provide a culture of trust, accountability, inclusivity, and boundless opportunities to grow, along with the chance to make a lasting impact and have some fun while doing it.

Total Rewards

• We're proud to be remote-first. We've been remote since 2009, long before COVID made it cool


• Unlimited PTO and paid parental leave for ALL parents (not just primary or secondary)


• 100% premium coverage of medical/dental/vision for you and your family


• 401K to help you invest for the future


• $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


• A monthly stipend reimbursement for health & wellness and so much more!

Working at TeamSnap

At TeamSnap, you're not a culture fit, you're a culture add. Check out our Culture Playbook and learn how we succeed at being remote-first, what makes our company so unique, and how we're inspired by our people, our customers, and our values.

Inclusion and Diversity

Creativity and innovation can't thrive when we're cookie-cutter images of each other. We’re quickly growing more diverse, but there's always room for improvement. We are committed to inclusion and diversity at TeamSnap, and we hold ourselves accountable for building an environment where everyone feels valued. If you need any disability-related adaptation during the recruitment process, just let us know! We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.