Senior Backend Engineer - Ads

About GameChanger:

We believe in the life-changing impact youth sports have on and off the field because they encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence—important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports.

So if you love sports and their community-building potential, or building cool products is your sport, GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.

The Position:

As the foundational backend software engineering hire for our ads team, you will build our AdTech infrastructure from the ground up. Your technical expertise, leadership capabilities, and passion for continuous improvement will help GameChanger move into a whole new business domain. You'll build brand-new scalable services, APIs, and data infrastructure with a multidisciplinary team of engineers, product managers, and data scientists to create our innovative advertising product.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop and maintain scalable, robust and efficient backend services for our ad platform.

• Architect and implement high volume, high load data processing pipelines.

• Improve existing systems' performance, reliability, scalability, and develop new features.

• Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

• Debug and troubleshoot complex problems across multiple systems and services.

• Ensure system security and data privacy compliance.

• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge.

• Create and maintain technical documentation for reference and reporting.

Who You Are:

• Expertise in at least one modern backend programming language such as Node, Java, Python or Go.

• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.

• Experience with high-load, high-availability scalable system development.

• Experience in working with relational and non-relational databases.

• Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks.

• Familiarity with cloud computing services such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.

• Familiarity with containers and orchestration tools

• Outstanding problem-solving skills.

• Drive to help others learn and improve themselves as engineers.

Bonus Points:

• Knowledge of Ads industry's key concepts and technologies like ad serving, bidding, and targeting.

• Familiarity with data privacy laws and regulations.

• Experience working with Typescript and Node.js.

• Experience working with Postgres/DocDB.

• Experience with mentoring/training.

Perks:

• Work remotely or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY.

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years to purchase new technology.

• WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.

• Snack stipend - $60 monthly to have snacks shipped to your home office.

• Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA/HRA., and coverage for family/dependents.

• Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.

• Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability.

• Retirement savings - 401K plan offered through Vanguard, with a company match.

• Company paid access to a wellness platform to support mental, financial and physical wellbeing.

• Generous parental leave.

• DICK’S Sporting Goods Teammate Discount.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

The target salary range for this position is between $160,000 and $200,000. This is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes incentive, equity, and benefits for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all teammates pay regularly to ensure competitive and fair salaries.

DICK’S Sporting Goods has company-wide practices to monitor and protect the company from significant compliance and monetary implications as it pertains to employer state tax liabilities. Due to said guidelines put in place, we are unable to hire in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC.

Compensation Range: $160K - $200K