Senior Backend Engineer, Trust & Safety

At DICK’S Sporting Goods, we believe in how positively sports can change lives. On our team, everyone plays a critical role in creating confidence and excitement by personally equipping all athletes to achieve their dreams.  We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce, reflecting the communities we serve.

If you are ready to make a difference as part of the world’s greatest sports team, apply to join our team today!

OVERVIEW:

About GameChanger:

We believe in the life changing impact youth sports have on and off the field. Sports encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence – important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports.

So if you love sports and their community building potential, or building cool products is your sport, GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.

The Position:

At GameChanger, our Trust & Safety team is dedicated to pioneering solutions that ensure a secure and trustworthy platform for our users. Our mission is to give parents and coaches the confidence that GC is the right platform for their team by implementing clear policies, building the right features, and fostering a culture of accountability and transparency across GameChanger.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about building tools and systems that safeguard user data and enhance our trustworthiness. In this role, you will lead initiatives to develop and optimize critical tools and systems for the Trust & Safety team. Your expertise in both frontend and backend development will drive innovations that address complex security challenges and reinforce user confidence in our platform. You will report to the Trust & Safety Engineering Manager.

This is an exceptional opportunity to shape the future of our platform’s safety and security. You’ll be instrumental in developing innovative solutions that protect our users and build trust. You’ll work with a talented team and have the chance to drive impactful changes in a critical area of our business.

What You'll Do:

• Own and drive business-critical product areas including scorekeeping, fan experiences, and team management throughout our backend services.

• Design, build, and operate scalable, high-performance backend services in production.

• Lead projects and work with Product, Design, QA and other engineers to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

• Evolve our APIs and service contracts to ensure performant, reliable communication between backend systems and client applications.

• Contribute to architectural decisions that guarantee scalability, maintainability, and developer productivity as our backend systems evolve.

• Identify and address performance bottlenecks, improve system reliability, and deliver high-impact new features in data-intensive domains.

• Ensure security, data integrity, and privacy compliance.

• Raise the technical bar through thoughtful code reviews, design feedback, and knowledge sharing.

• Create and maintain clear technical documentation to support long-term maintainability and cross-team understanding.

Who You Are:

• Experience evolving and scaling a production codebase used by large numbers of users and multiple engineering teams.

• Experience completing successful projects using TypeScript and Node.js, or another backend technology.

• Experience designing and implementing scalable, performant backend services with strong reliability and observability practices.

• Experience building scalable backend systems that transform complex data into real-time, user-facing product features.

• A leader, willing to take ownership for the success of the team.

• Outstanding problem-solving skills and ability to communicate solutions clearly.

• Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across a team.

• Enjoy building a collaborative atmosphere to create solutions to complex problems.

Experience:

We build our backend APIs with TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Redis, and PostgreSQL and run them in AWS.

• 6+ years in a software development role.

• 4+ years of experience buildi