Staff Software Engineer

The role

You will lead the technical design and delivery of integrations and APIs built and operated as products. You will work hands-on with engineers to design, build, and operate these products while making key architectural decisions.

What you will do

• Lead the technical design and delivery of integrations and API products.
• Work hands-on with engineers to design, build, launch, and operate products.
• Establish and apply standards for API contracts, authentication, versioning, and developer experience.
• Lead system design for integrations and APIs across services and external systems.
• Define and implement reliability, observability, and incident-response practices.
• Partner with Product and business stakeholders to clarify partner needs.
• Serve as a technical bridge across backend services, infrastructure, data, and client applications.
• Evaluate build, buy, and integration options.
• Identify architectural risks and drive improvements in scalability and security.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through pairing and reviews.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Hands-on technical leadership on complex, business-critical systems.
• Experience building and operating integrations or developer-facing APIs as products.
• Deep knowledge of API design and lifecycle management.
• Experience designing and evolving distributed, high-scale production systems.
• Experience leading technical design and delivery of initiatives spanning multiple teams or services.
• Experience defining production-readiness standards and service health metrics.
• Track record of aligning technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring engineers, including senior engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience working with third-party developers, strategic partners, API consumers, or platform ecosystems.
• Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Redis, and PostgreSQL.

Benefits

• Work remotely throughout the US or from Manhattan, NY office.
• Unlimited vacation policy.
• Paid volunteer opportunities.
• Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years.
• WFH stipend - $500 annually.
• Monthly physical, mental, wellness & learning stipend through Holisticly.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend through Fringe.
• Full health benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and family coverage.
• Retirement savings - Traditional and Roth 401K with immediate company match.
• Life insurance - basic, supplemental, and dependent life.
• Disability leave - short-term and long-term.
• Company paid parental leave - up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.

Before you apply

• Unable to hire in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC.
• Please refrain from using AI tools during interviews and assessments.

About the company

GameChanger is a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City. They build products to help families experience youth sports moments.