Senior Platform Engineer
About GameChanger:
We believe sports are important because they encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence—critical life lessons that have the power to propel young athletes toward meaningful futures. GameChanger recognizes that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. We celebrate those dedicated heroes and make it our mission to help them do what they do best.
GameChanger provides teams across the country team management and scorekeeping capabilities, allowing coaches and athletes to stay connected with the team community. We also generate live fan experiences that keep parents, family, and friends huddled around the GC digital campfire as games are announced, animated, and streamed in real-time. With GameChanger, coaches and parents are able to organize and follow their athlete’s journey in a simple and powerful way, all at the power of their fingertips.
GameChanger is a cutting-edge technology company and the uncontested leader in our space. We are based in downtown Manhattan and are proud to be part of the DICK’S Sporting Goods family.
The Position:
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will play a meaningful role on the team building the core services and production systems that power our next generation of sports community applications. This work spans the backend development, database management, CI / CD, cloud scaling automation, security, and tools to improve developer efficiency and quality of life. You should have an interest in building systems that are performant, stable, secure, and massively scalable.
What You'll Do:
- Work with a small team of collaborative, polyglot engineers.
- Contribute to the backend infrastructure and APIs supporting our family mobile and web applications, used by millions of active users.
- Help improve an automated, zero down-time build-to-deploy pipeline.
- Automate auto-scaling in the AWS hosted infrastructure.
- Architect and build frameworks and services to be used by multiple customer-facing teams.
- Teach and learn with engineers across the company.
- Be an advocate for responsible engineering practices (such as automated testing and security consciousness).
Who You Are:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or sufficient equivalent experience to have developed software engineering fundamentals.
- Proven track record of building highly scalable backend systems.
- Outstanding problem-solving skills.
- Experience mentoring engineers.
- Ability and interest in learning new technologies.
- Experience programming with JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python is a plus, but you'll geta chance to learn those if your background is with different languages.
Perks:
- Unlimited vacation policy.
- Technology stipend - $3,500 every 2 years to purchase new technology.
- Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA/HRA, etc., as well as 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.
- Generous maternity / paternity leave.
- Commuter benefits.
- DICK’S Sporting Goods Employee 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.