Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
TeamSnap·about 2 months ago
TeamSnap is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) interested in working across the stack to join our fully distributed engineering team to help us continue our impressive growth from 2+ million daily active users to beyond! Our stack primarily includes Node.js, TypeScript, and SQL.
As an engineering team, we design and build scalable systems using a service-oriented and event-driven architecture that serve millions of daily users and some of the largest youth and amateur sports organizations in the world. Our team values collaboration in a remote culture, so we regularly participate in pair sessions and virtual team swarms to stay connected and improve the team and company.
What You'll Do:
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Develop engaging experiences for our millions of users across our mobile and web applications.
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Design and implement scalable apps and services, integrating these into an evolving unified product and system architecture.
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Brainstorm and evaluate new product features in collaboration with the product and UX team.
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Collaborate and pair with other developers to develop solutions and teach technical skills.
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Contribute to our development standards within the team and across engineering to ensure code quality, adherence to standards, and identify opportunities for improvement
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Champion and implement automated testing practices to uphold the dependability and stability of backend systems, while also taking ownership of the overall reliability of the team's services.
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Actively engage in on-call responsibilities and contribute to incident management efforts.
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Evaluate and test new technologies to help TeamSnap move faster or serve our users more effectively.
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Help teammates overcome obstacles, resolve blockers, and complete work tasks.
What Will Set You Up for Success:
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5+ years of relevant experience, leading large projects on high-scale, distributed software systems as a software engineer
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Proficient in backend development with Node, Python, Golang, Ruby or similar.
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Experience with direct usage of SQL and relational databases such as MySQL / GCP Cloud SQL along with migrations, profiling, and optimization of such databases.
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Hands-on experience developing APIs, services for mobile applications and web clients at scale.
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Successfully delivered complex projects including debugging problems that may span a number of systems.
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Experience working with and architecting APIs, event streams, webhooks, etc.
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Experience working within and towards a distributed system.
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Extra points if you’ve built services for livestreaming, advertising, or subscriptions.
Market context
Measured from remote postings we have tracked ourselves — not self-reported survey data.
What Senior Engineering roles in Americas pay
- 25th
- $145k
- Median
- $173k
- 75th
- $202k
Based on 7,938 comparable postings with disclosed salaries, last 12 months.
How TeamSnap is hiring
- Last 90 days
- 8 roles
- Total tracked
- 31
- Hiring across
- 7 job families
Tracked since November 2025.