Senior Mobile Engineer, Developer Experience

Youth sports offer important life lessons that propel kids toward meaningful futures, including a sense of family and community. GameChanger by DICK’S Sporting Goods works to connect families via live video streaming of games, scorekeeping and team communication tools for more than half a million teams. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City intent on improving youth sports for all and developing our own teammates.

OVERVIEW:

About GameChanger:

We believe in the life-changing impact youth sports have on and off the field because they 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, we are expanding our platform organization to focus more heavily on our developer experience. This will include focuses on reliability, quality, scalability, maintainability of our system, etc. This specific role within the team will specialize in helping developers build quality solutions by pairing directly with them to discover where there are testing gaps and how to facilitate the existing testing workflows by building a standardized framework and shared libraries. This responsibility stretches the entire testing workflow, from unit tests, integration tests, UI tests, etc. The job is not about writing tests, it is about ensuring our infrastructure and code base make the process as simple as possible.

In this particular role, you will work full stack across our codebase (written in Swift and Kotlin), though you may specialize and focus on one more than the others. You will help identify weaknesses in the existing code base and help design ways to test critical workflows more effectively. You will also use your expertise to help mentor other developers on best practices in the testing space and lift up quality across the entire organization.

What You’ll Do:

• Pioneer new testing strategies and improve existing ones for developers to write in their areas of ownership.

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of testing frameworks, shared libraries and strategies across the company.

• Collaborate with other engineering leaders, product managers, and QA team members to identify testing needs.

• Improving the stability and reliability of our testing suites and owning automation and test tooling to increase overall confidence in releases.

• Identify weaknesses in product design that cause complexity of testing and lead design of refactoring the code with quality in mind.

• Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of learning and excellence around quality and testing.

• Engineer robust software solutions with a strong emphasis on high-quality development standards, ensuring reliability, and maintainability.

What You’ll Bring:

• 5+ years of experience in mobile development, preferably in Kotlin and/or Swift.

• Extensive experience with testing practices in all levels including unit, integration, UI testing, etc.

• Proven ability to design and execute on large scale shared libraries along with the ability to investigate external libraries and implement within an existing large code base.

• Share your expertise by mentoring and training engineers on reliability tactics. This will include creating comprehensive documentation, conducting one-on-one sessions, and leading group training workshops.

Perks:

• Work remotely throughout the US* or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY.

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• Paid volunteer opportunities.

• Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years after your start to make sure you have the latest and greatest technology

• WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.

• Learning stipend - $500 annually towards continued development

• Monthly physical, mental, wellness & learning stipend offered through Holisticly

• Monthly lifestyle stipend offered through Fringe

• Full health benefits - med