Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Java/Spring)

Teamworks

3d • $185,000 - $185,000

About The Position

I'm Ian Anderson, Engineering Manager for the Compliance, Recruiting, and Camps team at Teamworks. Our products power some of the most complex and compliance-sensitive workflows in collegiate athletics, and right now we're at a pivotal moment. We're moving from a monolithic, reactive codebase toward a stable, service-oriented architecture with a data layer that the entire Teamworks platform, including Ask Teamworks, can rely on. To get there, I need someone who's genuinely energized by hard technical problems and brings the patience and rigor to solve them the right way.

Requirements

• 6+ years of senior-level Java and Spring/Spring Boot experience
• Proven experience building internal APIs on top of relational databases, with strong query optimization and schema design skills
• Experience working across monolithic and service-oriented architectures, with a track record of decomposing monolithic applications into a service-oriented structure
• Experience building or evolving a data access layer that serves multiple internal consumers across a platform
• Proficiency with agentic coding tools and AI-assisted development
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and developing their problem-solving instincts

Nice To Haves

• Background in a high-compliance or regulated industry such as financial services or healthcare
• Experience with a modern JavaScript front-end framework

Responsibilities

• Own feature delivery across Compliance, Recruiting, and Camps, breaking complex work into small, shippable increments and seeing them through from design to production
• Design and build internal APIs and data access layers for performant, reliable cross-product data consumption, including the API versioning and service layer work needed to decompose the monolith into a Citadel-style architecture
• Diagnose and resolve critical performance issues in the data import pipeline through measurement, testing, and targeted fixes
• Provide mentorship and technical direction to junior engineers as a natural part of how you work, not as a side responsibility
• Drive code quality through MR reviews, testing practices, and AI-assisted development methods
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response

Benefits

• The C&R and Camps codebase is complex, the problems are real, and the work has direct impact on thousands of athletic programs that depend on Teamworks to stay compliant.
• You'll walk in on day one with meaningful ownership and a clear set of problems to solve, from import pipeline performance to long-term service architecture.
• The data layer work you do here also has reach across the broader Teamworks platform, including products like Ask Teamworks that rely on clean, performant data from every system.
• If you want to own something that matters and leave it better than you found it, this is that role.
• The team operates on a few principles that I take seriously: ship incrementally, learn from incidents without finger-pointing, and ask for help before problems get big.
• I manage with the same philosophy: clear ownership, real autonomy, and a genuine investment in your growth.
• If that sounds like the environment you've been looking for, I'd like to talk.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed