Hiring: Staff Backend Engineer Company: TeamSnap Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 14:40:47 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : AI, BigQuery, CI/CD, Elasticsearch, Elixir, Event-Driven, Node.js, Redis, SQL, TypeScript, Webhooks About the job Required Skills: •Architect, build, and evolve backend APIs, services, event-driven workflows, queues, background jobs, data models, caching strategies, and integrations that support millions of users and thousands of sports organizations. •Own 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 helping teams move from uncertainty to clear execution. •Provide technical leadership across our 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 bringing the right teams into architecture, solutioning, and scaling decisions. •Improve the 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. Qualifications: •Previous work in or close partnership with infrastructure, platform, SRE, DevOps, or data teams. •Elasticsearch experience, particularly operating, scaling, troubleshooting, or designing search and indexing workloads in production. •Operational familiarity with BigQuery, analytics pipelines, reporting workflows, or high-volume data processing. •Responsible use of AI-assisted engineering workflows to improve debugging, testing, documentation, refactoring, prototyping, or developer experience without compromising quality or understanding. •Got cold feet? If you’re thinking you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying •. We’re all humans with special talents that go beyond what’s listed here. Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) •The minimum starting point for this role is $200,000 inclusive of base and bonus, with comp updated based on multiple factors Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!