Staff Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the technical design and implementation of integrations and API products.

• Collaborate with Engineering and Product leaders to develop technical roadmaps.

• Hands-on design, development, launch, and management of integration and API products.

• Set standards and reusable patterns for API contracts, authentication and authorization, versioning, rate limiting, error handling, webhooks, documentation, and developer experience.

• Direct system design for GameChanger services and external systems.

• Address dependencies, failure modes, and trade-offs concerning performance, security, reliability, maintainability, cost, and future use cases.

• Establish reliability, observability, support, incident-response, and service-health practices, including SLIs, SLOs, and operational metrics.

• Collaborate with Product and business stakeholders to clarify partner requirements and prioritize technical investments.

• Act as a technical liaison across backend, infrastructure, data, and client application teams.

• Assess build, buy, and integration options and provide recommendations.

• Identify architectural risks and promote enhancements to scalability, resilience, security, and adaptability.

• Enhance design reviews, technical proposals, API lifecycle decisions, and documentation on architectural trade-offs.

• Mentor engineers through paired work, design reviews, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.

• Foster cross-functional relationships and drive decisions towards clear outcomes.

• Participate in an occasional on-call rotation and manage production systems.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of professional software development experience, including hands-on technical leadership in complex, business-critical systems.

• Proven experience in building and operating integrations or developer-facing APIs as products.

• Extensive knowledge of API design and lifecycle management, encompassing authentication and authorization, versioning, backwards compatibility, rate limiting, documentation, and developer experience.

• Experience in designing and evolving distributed, high-scale production systems with robust security, reliability, observability, and performance attributes.

• Track record of leading technical design and delivery of significant initiatives across multiple teams or services, from problem definition to production operation.

• Experience in defining production-readiness standards, service health metrics, incident management practices, and long-term reliability investments.

• Demonstrated ability to align technical and non-technical stakeholders, address cross-team ambiguities, and link technical decisions to customer and business outcomes.

• Experience mentoring engineers, including senior engineers, and enhancing engineering practices across teams.

• Preferred experience with third-party developers, strategic partners, API consumers, or platform ecosystems.

• Familiarity with TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Redis, and PostgreSQL is preferred.

• Must reside in the United States and be legally authorized to work in the country.

• Must not require employment visa sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Option to work remotely from anywhere in the US or from our modern office in Manhattan, NY.

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• Paid volunteer opportunities.

• Technology stipend of $4,000 every two years.

• Work-from-home stipend of $500 annually.

• Monthly wellness, mental health, and learning stipend through Holisticly.

• Monthly lifestyle stipend provided by Fringe.

• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and family/dependent coverage.

• Traditional and Roth 401(k) plans through Vanguard with immediate company match.

• Basic, supplemental, and dependent life insurance.

• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.

• Company-paid parental leave: up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.

• Family-building benefits available through Progyny.

• Employee discount at DICK'S Sporting Goods and other family-of-brands.

• Incentives and equity available for eligible positions.