Senior Software Engineer, GameChanger
Reliability
$160-200k
Offers Equity + Offers Bonus
More information about location
Scorekeeping & statistics app for sports teams
Be an early applicant
Scorekeeping & statistics app for sports teams
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-200k
Offers Equity + Offers Bonus
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
GameChanger's mission is to help families elevate the next generation through sports.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires working with programming languages such as Swift, Kotlin, and TypeScript
- Proven experience in developing and optimizing software, preferably with a background in mobile development using Swift and/or Kotlin
- Extensive experience in designing and implementing observability tools and frameworks, particularly using Datadog, OpenTelemetry (Otel), and other related technologies. You should be well-versed in creating monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions that provide deep insights into system performance
- Deep understanding of reliability metrics, with the ability to apply them effectively in production systems. You should be comfortable defining and working with metrics that drive SLOs and SLIs, ensuring that they reflect the memory usage, performance and resilience of mobile and backend applications
- A passion for continuous learning and teaching, with experience mentoring engineers across team boundaries in SRE and observability best practices. Your influence will extend beyond the immediate team, fostering a culture of reliability and transparency across the engineering organization
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced Software Engineer with a focus on Reliability to join our team of DevOps and Quality Engineers
- You will play a pivotal role in driving and implementing best practices for observability, scalability, recoverability, etc.across our iOS and Android products
- You will be at the intersection of platform and application-level development, offering a unique opportunity to impact the entire organization by integrating cloud infrastructure, software development, and operations expertise
- In this role, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, product managers, and infrastructure specialists to ensure that our systems are designed and built for reliability from the ground up
- Your work will directly contribute to enhancing the developer experience by creating seamless, automated processes for monitoring, alerting, and responding to system issues
- As our systems grow in complexity, your expertise will be crucial in scaling our observability practices and ensuring that we maintain high standards of performance and availability
- Lead efforts to establish clear visibility into how systems perform in production, using observability tools like Datadog and OpenTelemetry (Otel)
- Provide actionable feedback and recommendations to other engineering teams based on real-time data and insights
- Work closely with feature development teams to establish Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs)
- Work with teams to develop supportive tools to help test code and measure performance, examine memory usage and investigate app instability
- Architect, design, and maintain robust observability tools and frameworks tailored to our codebases and infrastructure
- Use Datadog, OpenTelemetry, and other industry-standard tools to ensure comprehensive monitoring, logging, and tracing for mobile applications (iOS and Android)
- Your goal will be to enable quick detection and resolution of incidents and to foster a proactive approach to system health and performance
- 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
- Your mentorship will empower teams to implement and maintain best practices for observability across the organization
- Why is this not just a Site Reliability Engineer role?
- We expect this position to be much more hands on in the code base, directly pairing with developers
- This position will be making changes directly to the main code base to help build shared libraries and frameworks to make it easier for product developers to build reliable code as well as developing separate tools to help monitor the system
- We felt like this role aligns more as a software engineer within our platform group more so than a separate role entirely
Our take
The competitive nature of sports has always been driven by scorekeeping, and nowadays results are often consumed online. However, for smaller teams it can be difficult to provide this information digitally, as they do not have dedicated web development staff.
GameChanger provides a scorekeeping and statistics platform for sports teams to engage with their fans, that allows viewers to track the progress of a game in real-time similar to with professional sports. The company also embeds a live-streaming service into the platform to facilitate remote viewing, helping to increase audience engagement.
Whilst some sports teams already stream events on platforms such as Twitch and Youtube, most do not have the technical resources to achieve this. GameChanger has recognized this gap in the market, providing a simple yet unified platform for sports scoreboards and streaming, providing a fair opportunity for any team to maximize their community engagement.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2014
$6.8m
SERIES B
Nov 2011
$1m
SERIES A
Total funding: $10.5m
Company benefits
- Unlimited Vacation - Take time off work and travel the world. Enjoy unlimited vacation time.
- Remote Work - GameChanger’s can work from anywhere. You’ll receive a tech budget to make sure you’re set up for success.
- Health Insurance - We’ll make sure you stay healthy. Health, dental, vision, and other perks like a pre-tax FSA - we've got you covered.
- 401K Plan - We’re always looking ahead and so should you. Did we mention that we match?
- Tech Budget - You receive a large tech budget every two years. It’s yours to keep.
- Continued Learning - Tuition reimbursement, an annual flexible learning budget, mentorship opportunities, and more.
- Parental Leave - Get the time off you need with extended parental leave for both parents.
- Wellness - Stay fit and healthy on us. We offer a Gympass membership.
- Other Perks - Monthly Snack Boxes, Dick's Sporting Goods employee discount, Demo Day, Hack Day, virtual and in person team social events
Company values
- Customer obsessed - We put our customers first, always asking, “Will this enhance their youth sports experience?”. We deeply understand our customers and work hard to anticipate their needs. We celebrate and support our customers’ contributions to their communities
- Team Players - We hold each other accountable to deliver our best effort. We are empathetic and supportive, providing a safe environment for risk taking. We listen actively, encourage debate, and commit to action. We do unglamorous work in service of the team
- Ambitious - We take on challenging initiatives designed to drive significant growth. We are mission-oriented, working with urgency to deliver value to our customers. We set a high bar, invest in development, and strive to be the best
- Empowered - We take the initiative to solve problems. We entrust decisions to those closest to the problem. We embrace individual responsibility and accountability
- Focused - We say “no” to valuable initiatives so we can concentrate resources on our most important work. We respect others’ time by limiting distractions, running efficient meetings and communicating concisely
Company HQ
East Village, New York, NY
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Leadership
Sameer Ahuja
(President, not founder)SVP at DICK’S Sporting Goods, that owns GameChanger. Former Founder and CEO of Dera Capital Advisors, as well as former Co-founder and COO/CFO of the Sports Museum of America.
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