Responsibilities
- Design, build, and improve backend APIs, services, event-driven workflows, queues, background jobs, data models, caching strategies, and integrations to support millions of users and thousands of sports organizations.
- Take full ownership of 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 guiding teams from uncertainty to clear execution.
- Provide technical leadership across the 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 involving the right teams in architecture, solutioning, and scaling decisions.
- Improve 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.
- Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills by giving and receiving constructive feedback, mentoring engineers, influencing cross-team alignment, and articulating technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
Compensation
Not specified
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide)
Team
Not specified
Other
- Fully remote company.
- Must be comfortable working with people who aren't in the same time zone.
- Can only hire permanent US residents at this time.
- Unlimited PTO and paid parental leave for ALL parents.
- 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!
Can only hire permanent US residents at this time
