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# Staff Backend Engineer

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## About this role.

AI SummaryTeamSnap is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable backend APIs, services, and event-driven systems for a high-volume sports platform. The role emphasizes hands-on technical leadership across distributed systems, SQL performance, caching, queues, observability, reliability, and production incident resolution. The engineer will lead ambiguous initiatives end to end, mentor peers, and influence technical decisions across Product, Platform, Infrastructure, Data, and Support. This is a fully remote position restricted to permanent US residents, with compensation starting at $200,000 inclusive of base and bonus.

## Role DNA

A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description.

### Job Complexity

5/5EasyHard

### Pace & Pressure

4/5RelaxedFast-paced

### Autonomy Level

5/5GuidedFull ownership

### Communication Load

5/5IndependentCollaborative

AI insightThis is a staff-level role requiring deep production experience with high-scale distributed backend systems and the ability to solve ambiguous, cross-system technical problems. Success also depends on architectural leadership, mentoring, and clear communication with technical and non-technical partners.

## Salary analysis

Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles.

Estimated job medianMarket rate$200,000US market range$180k–$260k0$286k

AI insightThe posting discloses a minimum starting compensation of $200,000 USD inclusive of base salary and bonus, but does not provide an upper limit; the offer median is therefore represented by the disclosed starting point. Estimated US market compensation for a Staff Backend Engineer is approximately $180,000–$260,000 annually, varying by location, company scale, and the mix of base pay, bonus, and equity.

## Core skills

Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity.

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Sample interview questionsDescribe a high-scale backend system you designed or significantly evolved. What architectural choices did you make and why?I would explain the workload, reliability and latency requirements, and the constraints that shaped the design. I would cover decisions around service boundaries, data ownership, asynchronous processing, caching, failure handling, observability, and rollout, then quantify the resulting impact on performance, reliability, or delivery speed.

How would you investigate an intermittent production issue involving an API, database, cache, and background queue?

I would start by defining the user impact and correlating logs, traces, metrics, queue depth, database behavior, and cache statistics over the affected period. I would form and test hypotheses across the request lifecycle, mitigate risk quickly through rollback, throttling, or feature controls where needed, and document root cause plus preventative actions after resolution.

What is your approach to improving a slow SQL query in a production system?

I would first validate the query’s frequency, latency, cardinality, and execution plan under realistic load. I would then consider indexing, query rewrites, pagination, data-model changes, caching, or asynchronous aggregation while weighing write costs, migration safety, and consistency requirements, and verify the improvement with production monitoring.

How do you lead an ambiguous technical initiative when several teams have competing priorities?

I clarify the customer and business outcome, identify unknowns and risks, and create a lightweight decision framework with viable options and tradeoffs. I align stakeholders on ownership, milestones, and success metrics, communicate decisions clearly, and keep the plan adaptable as new evidence emerges.

How do you mentor senior engineers while maintaining high engineering standards?

I use design reviews, pairing, incident retrospectives, and regular feedback to help engineers strengthen their technical judgment rather than simply providing answers. I set clear quality expectations around testing, operability, documentation, and ownership, while creating opportunities for others to lead meaningful technical decisions.

🌎 About Us

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 stack includes Node, TypeScript, Elixir, Ruby/Rails, SQL, React, cloud-based services, event-driven systems, queues, background jobs, caching layers, and observability tooling.

We are looking for a hands-on Staff Backend Engineer 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 be comfortable working closely with infrastructure, platform, and data teams 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.

### What You’ll Do:

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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.

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Own complex backend product and technical work from discovery through design, implementation, rollout, production support, and long term maintainability.

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Lead ambiguous technical initiatives by breaking down problems, identifying risks, making practical tradeoffs, and helping teams move from uncertainty to clear execution.

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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.

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Debug complex production issues by reasoning across application code, databases, caches, queues, jobs, observability data, and the broader request lifecycle.

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Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, Infrastructure, Platform, Data, Support, and other teams to turn roadmap needs into durable backend systems and practical delivery plans.

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Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to give and receive constructive feedback, mentor engineers, influence cross-team alignment and articulate technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders

### What Will Set You Up for Success:

* Strong Node expertise with experience building and maintaining production backend systems.
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Staff level backend engineering depth, with a strong track record building and operating high-scale APIs, services, distributed systems, or shared product capabilities in production.

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Strong command of backend technologies such as Node, TypeScript, Elixir, Ruby/Rails, Java, Go, Python, or similar, including runtime behavior, failure modes, and production tradeoffs.

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Strong SQL and relational database judgment, including indexing, query optimization, migrations, profiling, data modeling, transactions, read and write patterns, and performance tuning.

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Practical understanding of service-oriented architecture, event-driven architecture, queues, background jobs, webhooks, Redis or similar caching tools, and systems that need to scale under real production load.

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Working knowledge of production infrastructure and platform concerns, enough to reason through deployments, containers, CI/CD pipelines, cloud services, networking basics, observability, and operational debugging.

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Strong production ownership mindset, with the ability to use logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, incident reviews, and system behavior to improve reliability over time.

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Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, mentor engineers, facilitate technical decisions, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and connect backend technical choices to customer impact, business needs, and long term maintainability.

### Bonus:

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Previous work in or close partnership with infrastructure, platform, SRE, DevOps, or data teams.

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Familiarity with Elasticsearch, BigQuery, analytics pipelines, search infrastructure, reporting workflows, or high-volume data processing.

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Responsible use of AI-assisted engineering workflows to improve debugging, testing, documentation, refactoring, prototyping, or developer experience without compromising quality or understanding.

### Compensation

### Additional Information

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

We’re committed to equitable compensation for all TeamSnappers. The minimum starting point for this role is $200,000 inclusive of base and bonus, with comp updated based on multiple factors. Our comp is highly competitive in our space and we adjust overall comp based on relevant experience, skills, certifications, and geographic location.

🖥 Location

TeamSnap is a fully remote company, so you need to be very comfortable working with people who aren’t in the same time zone as you. We are always expanding, but there is a small list of states we do not hire in, including Alabama, Alaska, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, Rhode Island, South Dakota West Virginia and Utah and while we love all parts of the world, we can only hire permanent US residents at this time.

🚀 Opportunities to Grow

At TeamSnap, we work hard to provide a culture of trust, accountability, inclusivity, and boundless opportunities to grow, along with the chance to make a lasting impact and have some fun while doing it.

🎩 Total Rewards

• We’re proud to be [remote-first](https://www.inc.com/matt-given/this-startup-ceos-policy-on-working-remotely-is-genius-and-its-based-on-a-famous-tv-show.html). We’ve been remote since 2009, long before COVID made it cool

• Unlimited PTO and paid parental leave for ALL parents (not just primary or secondary)

• 100% premium coverage of medical/dental/vision for you and your family

• 401K to help you invest for the future

• $1,500 annual learning and development stipend

• Travel to fun locations for all-company meetings and team events

• Generous home office allowance to set you up for success

• TeamSnap SWAG to our [store](https://teamlocker.squadlocker.com/#/lockers/teamsnap-401580)upon starting and a $50 credit on every work anniversary thereafter

• A monthly stipend reimbursement for health & wellness and so much more!

•[TeamSnap Total Rewards](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MABY-MtRuyt7139FwyVyP_4EvpZ3WaWH/view?usp=sharing)

🏆 Working at TeamSnap

At TeamSnap, you’re not a culture fit, you’re a culture add. Check out our [Culture Playbook](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RCCnkjUDJEh0QoAAKWhUL8Pf2mFwY0fN/view?ths=true)and learn how we succeed at being remote-first, what makes our company so unique, and how we’re inspired by our people, our customers, and our values.

🧡 Inclusion and Diversity

Creativity and innovation can’t thrive when we’re cookie-cutter images of each other. We’re quickly growing more diverse, but there’s always room for improvement. We are committed to inclusion and diversity at TeamSnap, and we hold ourselves accountable for building an environment where everyone feels valued. If you need any disability-related adaptation during the recruitment process, just let us know! We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.

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