Staff Software Engineer

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GameChangerYouth sports technology

GameChanger Remote - US; Work remotely throughout the USFull-TimeStaff

Salary$169K - $185K; $169K – $185K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus. The target salary range for this position is between $169,000 and $185,000.

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Have 8+ years of professional software development experience, including hands-on technical leadership on complex, business-critical systems.
Have demonstrated experience building and operating integrations or developer-facing APIs as products.
Bring deep knowledge of API design and lifecycle management, including authentication and authorization, versioning, backwards compatibility, rate limiting, documentation, and developer experience.
Have experience designing and evolving distributed, high-scale production systems with security, reliability, observability, and performance considerations.
Have led the technical design and delivery of substantial initiatives spanning multiple teams or services, from problem definition through production operation.
Have experience defining production-readiness standards, service-health metrics, incident practices, and reliability investments.
Have a track record of aligning technical and non-technical stakeholders and resolving cross-team ambiguity.
Have experience mentoring engineers, including senior engineers, and improving engineering practices across teams.
Experience with third-party developers, strategic partners, API consumers, or platform ecosystems is strongly preferred.
Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Redis, and PostgreSQL is preferred.

Lead the technical design and delivery of integrations and API products, partnering with Engineering and Product leaders on technical roadmaps.
Design, build, launch, and operate integration and API products with engineers.
Establish reusable standards for API contracts, authentication and authorization, versioning, rate limiting, error handling, webhooks, documentation, and developer experience.
Lead system design across GameChanger services and external systems, addressing dependencies, failure modes, and tradeoffs.
Define reliability, observability, support, incident-response, and service-health practices, including SLIs, SLOs, and operational metrics.
Partner with Product and business stakeholders to clarify partner needs, inform decisions, and prioritize technical investments.
Evaluate build, buy, and integration options and communicate tradeoffs and recommendations.
Identify architectural risks and drive improvements to scalability, resilience, security, and ease of evolution.
Mentor engineers and improve backend and API expertise through pairing, reviews, and knowledge sharing.
Participate in an occasional on-call rotation and take ownership of production systems.

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