About GameChanger:
We believe in the life-changing impact youth sports have on and off the field because they encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence—important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports.
So if you love sports and their community-building potential, or building cool products is your sport, GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.
The Position:
As an Android Software Engineer, you will use modern tools to develop features in our native Android application and across the stack. You will build engaging user-facing features by contributing your expertise, writing code, and making architectural decisions on a team of Product Managers, Designers, QA Analysts, and Engineers. You will report to one of our Product Engineering Managers.
What You'll Do:
- Lead feature development for community engagement, scorekeeping, fan experiences, and team management throughout the stack, with a focus on our Android app.
- Work with peers on important decisions about how our applications are architected and built.
- Team up with designers, testers, and product managers to find the best solutions for our customers.
- Teach and learn with engineers across the company.
- Promote responsible engineering practices and mentor team members.
- Drive consensus on your team and solutions to challenging problems.
Who You Are:
- Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals.
- Experience leading successful Android projects.
- Experience shipping beautiful, high-quality apps.
- Participate in regular design and code reviews with development team members to confirm use of best practices.
- Understand and evaluate new technologies, develop skills in new technologies.
- Passion and experienced working with the latest Android tech.
- Comfort working in a cross-functional product team.
- Experience mentoring engineers and organizing work within a team.
Experience:
- Our apps are written in Kotlin and use a reactive Model View Intent (MVI) architecture driven by Realm, RxJava, and the Jetpack lifecycle components.
- Your team will also do iOS development in Swift, so having background there would be a bonus, but is not required.
- Our backend APIs are built with TypeScript, Node.js, Redis, Kafka, and PostgreSQL and run in AWS. It's not required that you know these, but we prefer that you are open to full-stack development.
- Experience or interest in product analytics, A/B testing and product experimentation at scale is an added bonus.
Perks:
- Work remotely or from our well-furnished, modern office in NYC's FiDi.
- Unlimited vacation policy.
- Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years to purchase new technology.
- Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA/HRA., and coverage for family/dependents.
- Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.
- Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability.
- Retirement savings - 401K plan offered through Vanguard, with a company match.
- Generous parental leave.
- Commuter benefits.
- DICK'S Sporting Goods Teammate Discount.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
The target salary range for this position is between $105,000 and $210,000. This is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes incentive, equity, and benefits for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all teammate pay regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay.
