Senior Backend Engineer - remote

Teamworks
Posted 1 year ago
We Work Remotely
Teamworks, the Operating System for Sports™, powers more than 6,000 sports organizations around the world, including collegiate athletic departments and teams across all of the major professional leagues. With 300+ exceptional employees located in ten different countries, Teamworks’ software solutions drive the operations of the most recognizable sports properties in the world.

We are looking for a senior technical contributor with extensive backend experience. Ideal candidates are ready to code and excited to lead alongside their peers. This role will directly support the future of sports compliance software on our Hub product. 

Hub is Teamworks’ flagship product, an all-in-one solution that streamlines communication, scheduling, and collaboration for athletes and team staff. Engineers on the Hub team are highly technical people producing creative and powerful tools to enable athletes, coaches, and staff to do their best work.

Hub’s scale and reach include:
  • 3.4 million sessions in the last 30 days across web, iOS, and Android applications.
  • 535 million messages sent to date.
  • 12 million messages sent monthly.
  • 2.2 million calendar events were scheduled last month.
  • Users in 130 countries.
  • Users spend a combined 5.4 million minutes per week in Teamworks.


Responsibilities:
  • Collaborate with product designers and product managers to arrive at functionality that can be developed efficiently and meets end-users’ needs.
  • Build APIs for external systems to fetch athlete data, including schedules and profile data.
  • Support webhooks to enable third-party applications to remain in-sync after updates in Teamworks.
  • Participate in architecture discussions and build new modules for our customers from beginning to end.
  • Develop the engineering strength of the team through mentorship, delegation, and collaboration.
  • Design and implement quality, well-tested, and scalable APIs and web/mobile applications.
  • Develop and maintain internal software tools.
  • Design, code, compile, and test complex web applications.
  • Identify bottlenecks and improve software efficiency. 
  • Troubleshoot, debug, maintain, and improve existing software.
 
Requirements:
  • Building Python APIs (REST and/or GraphQL).
  • Relational databases and ORMs (we use PostgreSQL and SQLAlchemy).
  • Microservices.
  • Asynchronous tasks/queues.
  • Pub/Sub messaging.
  • CI / CD tooling.
  • Experience with OO design and architectural patterns.

Desired Traits:
  • Strong at anticipating issues and providing solutions for complex problems.
  • Superior analytical and problem-solving skills.
 
What we offer:
  • A role in shaping the future of sports, and a career that grows as the company grows.
  • An exceptional culture of high achievement and teamwork.
  • Supportive and humble colleagues who are some of the top problem solvers and innovators in the game.
  • Financial security through competitive compensation and incentives.
  • A comprehensive benefits plan, including medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, and a 401K with match.
  • Unlimited paid time off.
  • Company equity.  
  • Additional educational opportunities via Range that employees can use for courses, conferences, and other options.
 
Founded in 2006, Teamworks started out as a messaging platform supporting collegiate football teams. Since then, we have raised four institutional rounds of funding totaling over $100M, and our B2B SaaS product offerings have grown to solve complex operational workflows involving communications, scheduling, data collection, rules compliance, and other issues specific to elite athletics. In addition to providing the premier operations platform serving the sports industry, we’ve also built or acquired the top solutions for Athlete Academic success (Retain), Alumni Engagement (Communities), Athlete Experience (Pulse), Compliance Services (Compliance), Name, Image, and Likeness (INFLCR), Sports Performance &Nutrition (Notemeal), Recruiting (Whistle), and Human Performance (Smartabase) . Our product suite continues to grow, and we are the preeminent tech provider serving top-tier athletic organizations.  
 
Our offices in Durham, NC, Brisbane, AUS, Reading, UK, Birmingham, AL, Broomfield, CO, and Boston, MA are open for work, collaboration, and optional team-building events – but we have team members who live in Washington, Florida, New York, and everywhere in between. Attendance is 100% optional, even for team members who live right down the road.

Teamworks is an equal opportunity employer - if you live our core values every day and are honest, hardworking, humble, committed, innovative, and an all-around exceptional person, you'll thrive at Teamworks. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and take affirmative action to not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics.  This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, promotion, termination, compensation, benefits, and training.  Teamworks is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email people@teamworks.com.

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