Staff Backend Engineer

About this role

TeamSnap is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Backend, for its fully distributed engineering team. The role focuses on building and improving APIs and services, resolving production issues, and guiding technical design in areas that may be ambiguous. The stack includes Node, TypeScript, Elixir, SQL, cloud services, event-driven systems, queues, background jobs, caching and observability tooling. The position involves mentoring engineers and raising the quality bar while integrating architecture with infrastructure, data, security and related domains. The role contributes to scalable backend systems, data performance, reliability and production quality to support millions of daily users and many amateur sports organisations.

What you would do

• Lead technical design in ambiguous areas and guide the engineering team
• Build and improve backend APIs and services
• Reason through production issues across the system
• Mentor engineers and raise overall quality
• Collaborate with teams on architecture and solutioning early
• Shape the technical foundation behind the product experience
• Focus on backend systems, data performance and observability
• Ensure production quality, reliability and scalability
• Work with service-oriented and event-driven architecture
• Participate in architecture discussions and cross-functional collaboration

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