Staff Software Engineer

GameChanger•New York, NY

16h•$169,000 - $185,000•Remote

About The Position

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the technical design and delivery of integrations and API products. You will help turn GameChanger’s capabilities and domain expertise into secure, reliable, scalable, and intuitive experiences that developers and partners can build on with confidence. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will work directly with engineers to design, build, and operate integrations and APIs, make key architectural decisions, and establish practical engineering patterns. You will apply experience building developer-facing products to guide decisions across API contracts, authentication and authorization, versioning, documentation, observability, reliability, support, and developer experience. Your impact will extend across the teams and services that support these products. You will identify cross-system dependencies and risks, establish reusable patterns, and help engineers build backend and integration expertise. You will partner with Engineering, Product, Data, Design, and Business Development to translate developer and partner needs into technical plans, align with GameChanger’s broader architecture, and deliver a cohesive integration experience. This role reports to a Sr Engineering Manager. GameChanger is a remote-first technology company based in New York City. The role may be performed remotely in the US or from the company’s Manhattan office. The target salary range is $169,000–$185,000, as part of a total rewards package that includes incentive, equity, and benefits for eligible roles. Hiring is unavailable in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC.

Requirements

At least 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, backward 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 the 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.
A 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 a team and collaborating teams.
Hands-on technical leadership, product judgment, ability to take ownership of ambiguous high-impact work, reason through tradeoffs, and lead through influence and direct contribution.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with third-party developers, strategic partners, API consumers, or platform ecosystems is strongly preferred.
Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Redis, and PostgreSQL is preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead technical design and delivery of integrations and API products, partnering with Engineering and Product leaders on technical roadmaps.
Work hands-on with engineers to design, build, launch, and operate API and integration products, owning critical implementation work and balancing near-term learning with a durable foundation.
Establish and apply reusable standards for API contracts, authentication and authorization, versioning, rate limiting, error handling, webhooks, documentation, and developer experience.
Lead system design for integrations and APIs across GameChanger services and external systems; work with service owners on dependencies, failure modes, and tradeoffs involving performance, security, reliability, maintainability, cost, and future use cases.
Define and implement reliability, observability, support, incident-response, and service-health practices, including meaningful SLIs, SLOs, and operational metrics.
Partner with Product and business stakeholders to clarify partner needs, inform product decisions, and prioritize technical investments with customer and business impact.
Bridge teams responsible for backend services, infrastructure, data, and client applications that contribute to the integration and developer experience.
Evaluate build, buy, and integration options and communicate tradeoffs and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Identify architectural risks in integrations, APIs, and dependencies, and drive improvements to scalability, resilience, security, and ease of evolution.
Use and improve lightweight practices for design reviews, technical proposals, API lifecycle decisions, and documentation of architectural tradeoffs.
Mentor engineers, including senior engineers, and raise technical standards through pairing, design reviews, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
Build relationships across Engineering, Product, and business functions; surface disagreements early and drive decisions to clear outcomes.
Participate in an occasional on-call rotation and model strong ownership of production systems.

Benefits

Unlimited vacation policy.
Paid volunteer opportunities.
Technology stipend of $4,000 every 2 years after starting.
Work-from-home stipend of $500 annually.
Learning stipend of $500 annually toward continued development.
Monthly physical, mental, wellness, and learning stipend through Holisticly.
Monthly lifestyle stipend through Fringe.
Medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, and HSA coverage, including family and dependents.
Traditional and Roth 401(k) plans through Vanguard with an immediate company match.
Basic, supplemental, and dependent life insurance.
Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
Company-paid parental leave of 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 are part of the total rewards package for eligible roles.