Senior Full-Stack Engineer, GameChanger
Closers
$160-200k
+Bonus & Equity
Scorekeeping & statistics app for sports teams
Job no longer available
Scorekeeping & statistics app for sports teams
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$160-200k
+Bonus & Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
GameChanger's mission is to help families elevate the next generation through sports.
Role
Who you are
- Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals
- Experience scaling a codebase to a large number of users and engineers
- Track record of successful projects utilizing Typescript and Node.js
- Experience writing scalable, performant server-side code
- Passion and savvy working with the latest in web and server development tech
- Comfort working in a multi-disciplined product team
- Outstanding problem-solving skills
- Experience mentoring engineers
- Our backend APIs are built with TypeScript, Node.js, Redis, and PostgreSQL and run in AWS
- 4+ years in a software development role with a backend focus
- 4+ years experience with Node.js or another backend technology
- 3+ years experience leading and implementing design solutions
- Our web app client is a React and Redux application written in TypeScript. Experience with TypeScript is strongly preferred
- Our mobile apps are built in Swift and Kotlin. It’s not required that you know these but you are welcome to pitch in and help on their development if you choose
What the job involves
- The goal of GameChanger’s Closers team is to provide the highest quality coverage experience for coaches and staff members of our youth sports teams. To do this we provide features to coaches and staff members that enhance their ability to analyze, teach and improve the skills and performance of their teams
- As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll be responsible for the health of our API server codebase and the developer experience of working on it.
- You’ll own the frameworks and SDK that underpin GameChanger’s development and also lead building features on our website when needed
- You will lead changes to our server side codebase to make it more performant, productive, and scalable. You will report to one of our Engineering Managers
- Lead architectural decisions to ensure productivity as our headcount grows
- Drive changes to our API and SDK to facilitate server/client communication
- Use modern tools to develop features on the web and across our backend stack
- Introduce code patterns and tools to improve developer ergonomics
- Collaborate with peers on critical decisions about how our applications are architected and built
- Teach and learn with engineers across the company
- Promote responsible engineering practices
- Demonstrate a commitment to quality using the best practices of testing, code architecture and feature development
Our take
The competitive nature of sports has always been driven by scorekeeping, and nowadays results are often consumed online. However, for smaller teams it can be difficult to provide this information digitally, as they do not have dedicated web development staff.
GameChanger provides a scorekeeping and statistics platform for sports teams to engage with their fans, that allows viewers to track the progress of a game in real-time similar to with professional sports. The company also embeds a live-streaming service into the platform to facilitate remote viewing, helping to increase audience engagement.
Whilst some sports teams already stream events on platforms such as Twitch and YouTube, most do not have the technical resources to achieve this. GameChanger has recognised this gap in the market, providing a simple yet unified platform for sports scoreboards and streaming, providing a fair opportunity for any team to maximise their community engagement.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
37% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2014
$6.8m
SERIES B
Nov 2011
$1.1m
SERIES A
Total funding: $10.7m
Company benefits
- Unlimited Vacation - Take time off work and travel the world. Enjoy unlimited vacation time.
- Remote Work - GameChanger’s can work from anywhere. You’ll receive a tech budget to make sure you’re set up for success.
- Health Insurance - We’ll make sure you stay healthy. Health, dental, vision, and other perks like a pre-tax FSA - we've got you covered.
- 401K Plan - We’re always looking ahead and so should you. Did we mention that we match?
- Tech Budget - You receive a large tech budget every two years. It’s yours to keep.
- Continued Learning - Tuition reimbursement, an annual flexible learning budget, mentorship opportunities, and more.
- Parental Leave - Get the time off you need with extended parental leave for both parents.
- Wellness - Stay fit and healthy on us. We offer a Gympass membership.
- Other Perks - Monthly Snack Boxes, Dick's Sporting Goods employee discount, Demo Day, Hack Day, virtual and in person team social events
Company HQ
East Village, New York, NY
Leadership
Sameer Ahuja
(President)SVP at DICK’S Sporting Goods, that owns GameChanger. Former Founder and CEO of Dera Capital Advisors, as well as former Co-founder and COO/CFO of the Sports Museum of America.
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