Staff Software Engineer

GameChanger

. Lead technical design and delivery of integrations and API products .

Posted 10/22/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLead💰 $169,000 - $185,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in leading technical design and delivery of integrations and API products, with a strong focus on API design, lifecycle management, and operational excellence. Proven ability to mentor engineers and align technical initiatives with business outcomes while ensuring system reliability and performance.

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API Design And Lifecycle ManagementTechnical LeadershipDistributed Systems DesignMentoring EngineersProduction-Readiness Standards

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Hard Skills

Software DevelopmentAPI ProductsIntegration DesignSystem DesignIncident PracticesService Health MetricsPerformance CharacteristicsAuthentication And AuthorizationVersioningRate Limiting

Soft Skills

Cross-Functional CollaborationStakeholder AlignmentKnowledge SharingProblem DefinitionDecision-Making

Tools & Technologies

TypeScriptNode.jsAWSRedisPostgreSQL

Industry Keywords

API ContractsDeveloper ExperienceObservabilityReliabilityScalability

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSJavaScriptNode.jsPostgresRedisTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead technical design and delivery of integrations and API products
Partner with Engineering and Product leaders to shape technical roadmaps
Design, build, launch, and operate integration and API products hands-on
Establish standards and reusable patterns for API contracts, authentication and authorization, versioning, rate limiting, error handling, webhooks, documentation, and developer experience
Lead system design across GameChanger services and external systems
Address dependencies, failure modes, and tradeoffs involving performance, security, reliability, maintainability, cost, and future use cases
Define reliability, observability, support, incident-response, and service-health practices, including SLIs, SLOs, and operational metrics
Partner with Product and business stakeholders to clarify partner needs and prioritize technical investments
Serve as a technical bridge across backend, infrastructure, data, and client application teams
Evaluate build, buy, and integration options and communicate recommendations
Identify architectural risks and drive improvements to scalability, resilience, security, and ease of evolution
Improve design reviews, technical proposals, API lifecycle decisions, and architectural tradeoff documentation
Mentor engineers through pairing, design reviews, code reviews, and knowledge sharing
Build cross-functional relationships and drive decisions to clear outcomes
Participate in an occasional on-call rotation and own production systems

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of professional software development experience, including hands-on technical leadership on complex, business-critical systems
Demonstrated experience building and operating integrations or developer-facing APIs as products
Deep knowledge of API design and lifecycle management, including authentication and authorization, versioning, backwards compatibility, rate limiting, documentation, and developer experience
Experience designing and evolving distributed, high-scale production systems with strong security, reliability, observability, and performance characteristics
Experience leading technical design and delivery of substantial initiatives spanning multiple teams or services, from problem definition through production operation
Experience defining production-readiness standards, service health metrics, incident practices, and longer-term reliability investments
Track record of aligning technical and non-technical stakeholders, resolving cross-team ambiguity, and connecting technical decisions to customer and business outcomes
Experience mentoring engineers, including senior engineers, and improving engineering practices across teams
Experience with third-party developers, strategic partners, API consumers, or platform ecosystems strongly preferred
Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Redis, and PostgreSQL preferred
Must be based in the United States and legally authorized to work in the United States
Must not require employment visa sponsorship

Benefits

Comp & perks

Work remotely throughout the US or from the modern office in Manhattan, NY
Unlimited vacation policy
Paid volunteer opportunities
Technology stipend of $4,000 every 2 years
WFH stipend of $500 annually
Monthly physical, mental, wellness and learning stipend through Holisticly
Monthly lifestyle stipend through Fringe
Full health benefits: medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and family/dependent coverage
Traditional and Roth 401(k) plans through Vanguard with immediate company match
Basic, supplemental, and dependent life insurance
Short-term and long-term disability
Company-paid parental leave: up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents
Family-building benefits through Progyny
DICK'S Sporting Goods and family-of-brands teammate discount
Incentive and equity for eligible roles