Staff Backend Engineer

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.

We are looking for a hands-on Staff Backend Engineer with deep, meaningful production Node experience 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 bring strong systems thinking that connects application architecture with infrastructure, platform, data, security, and other adjacent domains, bringing those teams into architecture and solutioning conversations early 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.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

• 1. Treats the platform as a generic SaaS product without understanding the nuances of youth sports
• 2. Proposes enterprise-heavy sales motions that do not align with bottom-up consumer adoption
• 3. Lacks a clear grasp of mobile app engagement and retention strategies

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I build frictionless product-led growth engines that turn everyday users into viral advocates, particularly within passionate consumer ecosystems.