Backend Engineer at TeamSnap - Remote

Remote-First Since 2009 — But US-Only and Timezone-Aware

Team Snap has been a fully distributed company since 2009, which means their async culture and remote tooling are genuinely mature — not a pandemic afterthought. However, this role is restricted to permanent US residents only
, which rules out most digital nomad visa arrangements in non-US countries.

For US-based nomads, there's good news: the role doesn't specify fixed hours, and the company explicitly acknowledges working across time zones. That said, "Staff" level roles at engineering companies typically involve some synchronous collaboration (architecture reviews, mentoring sessions, incident response), so expect some overlap with US business hours — likely 10am–3pm ET as a practical core window.

Location-flexibility within the US: You can work from most US states, but note these are excluded:
Alabama, Alaska, Delaware, DC, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, Rhode Island, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Utah. Popular nomad-friendly US cities like Austin, Denver, Nashville, Portland, and Miami are all eligible.

• Generous home office / equipment allowance — useful for setting up anywhere you land.
• Health & wellness monthly stipend — could offset coworking costs.
• Annual travel to company meetups — built-in travel experiences covered by the employer.
• $1,500 L&D stipend — invest in skills while on the road.

At $200K+ annual minimum, this salary affords a very comfortable lifestyle in virtually any US city or slow-travel destination accessible to US residents.

At Team Snap, we believe when the world connects through sports, the world becomes better. Team Snap is a sports and communication platform dedicated to taking the work out of play in youth sports. We also believe our jobs should excite us, our teammates should support us, and our bosses should inspire us. We empower our people to bring big ideas and tiny egos, landing us on Outside Magazine's list of Best Places to Work and Built In's 100 Best Remote-First Places to Work.

Team Snap is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Backend
, to join our fully distributed engineering team and help us continue scaling systems that serve millions of daily users and tens of thousands of amateur sports organizations. Our stack includes Node, Type Script, Elixir, Ruby/Rails, SQL, React, cloud-based services, event-driven systems, queues, background jobs, caching layers, and observability tooling.

We are looking for a hands-on Staff Backend Engineer who can build and improve APIs and services, reason through production issues across the system, lead technical design in ambiguous areas, mentor engineers, and raise the quality bar across the team. This person should be comfortable working closely with infrastructure, platform, and data teams without being expected to own those functions directly.

As an engineering team, we architect and build scalable systems using service-oriented and event-driven architecture. This role will help shape the technical foundation behind Team Snap's product experience, with a focus on backend systems, APIs, services, data performance, reliability, observability, and production quality.

• Architect, build, and evolve backend APIs, services, event-driven workflows, queues, background jobs, data models, caching strategies, and integrations that support millions of users and thousands of sports organizations.
• Own complex backend product and technical work from discovery through design, implementation, rollout, production support, and long-term maintainability.
• Lead ambiguous technical initiatives by breaking down problems, identifying risks, making…