Staff Backend Engineer, Node & TypeScript, Stable SportsTech Co, Used by Millions
Staff backend engineer at a remote-first sports technology platform serving millions of users and tens of thousands of amateur sports organizations. Day to day: building and scaling event-driven, service-oriented backend systems in Node.js and TypeScript, with SQL tuning, ORM and API design work, plus mentoring other engineers.
- Compensation
- $200K–$220K / yr
- Location
- Denver, United States
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 15+ years
- Category
- Backend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Strong, recent production backend coding with Node.js/TypeScript focus
- Highly product-focused engineering mentality, delivering backend business logic that drives customer value
- Proven depth scaling high-volume, high-scale products (ideally millions of users, event-driven workflows, async systems under heavy load)
- Strong SQL relational database mastery
- Proven track record scaling microservices and executing complex database migrations
- Deep expertise in systems architecture, advanced SQL tuning, ORM management, and clean API design
- Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor engineers and clarify ambiguous requirements during live coding, without relying on AI tools as a crutch
- Must reside in the USA (cannot hire residents of AL, AK, DE, DC, HI, IA, LA, MS, NE, NM, RI, SD, WV, or UT)
Nice to have
- Connection to sports or passion for mission-driven companies
- Not too platform- or front-end-heavy (React/UI-heavy candidates will be passed on)
Full description
HIRING: Staff Backend Engineer, Node & TypeScript, Stable SportsTech Co, Used by Millions RECRUITER OVERVIEW:
Hey, I'm Will — Rumor has it I'm Colorado's #1 Most Connected, Respected & Bald-est #DevRecruiter™. As an agency software engineering recruiter, my team and I are actively and continually partnered with an ever-growing rolodex of private & public tech companies, as well as VC backed and self-funded startups, Pre-Seed through Acquisition/IPO... What these companies have in common is that they ALL are looking to Hire " Uncommonly Good " Founding, Mid, Senior, Lead, Staff & Principal Software Devs ... and of course, the Leaders of these Software Development Teams.
A LITTLE ABOUT THE COMPANY
My client is a leading remote-first sports technology company with an enviable, collaborative, remote 1st culture. Their platform supports millions of users and tens of thousands of amateur sports organizations. Their engineering organization builds highly scalable, service-oriented, and event-driven systems using modern cloud technologies, APIs, databases, queues, caching, and observability tooling. I'm working directly with the CTO and 5 members of her team to hire 3 Devs: a Mid, a Senior, and a Staff ... This is a new client of mine, but maybe already my favorite company to work with :)
WHY WORK WITH THIS COMPANY?
- Super cool industry: They serve the Amateur Sports / SportsTech space (they are the #1 in their space already, but that's only like ~10% market share)
- Diverse team, innovative culture: They strongly encourage and focus on hiring for diversity across all axes, which has led to an incredibly creative and innovative culture
- Lots of growth in sight! T hey are making HUGE pivots to grow and take market share in an industry ripe for product-focused development to drive tons of new customers.
- Unique balance of stability and growth: They've been around for 15+ years yet very small and nimble, with plenty of room for new "startup-like" initiatives and passionate innovators
- An AI philosophy that doesn't suck : They are AI-welcoming, but they want solid development fundamentals 1st (Good code and smart architecture will always rule the room).
- Remote 1st, and rooted in that for almost their entire history ... no RTOs happening here. They do remote RIGHT (with many awards to back them) ... This includes remote workflows, async habits, and remote communication patterns that are well established.
ROLE REQUIREMENTS
These roles are heavily backend and product-focused . We are seeking engineers who have worked extensively on the server side using and , backed by a proven track record of scaling microservices, executing complex database migrations, and architecting high-throughput, event-driven systems. Ideal candidates bring deep expertise across systems architecture, advanced SQL tuning, ORM management, and clean API design, paired with a strong product mindset focused on delivering core backend business logic that directly drives customer value. They are also looking for people who have done this type of work at scale (i.e., on products with millions of users)