Senior Software Engineer

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:

Join us at GameChanger as our Senior Software Engineer in Marketing Technology, where you will spearhead the development and execution of our advanced marketing platforms and introduce technical marketing initiatives into our product. This crucial role blends deep technical expertise with strong cross-team collaboration, to innovate within our marketing technology stack and enable our ability to reach our marketing objectives. You’ll work to leverage and correlate our data as inputs to disparate systems within our stack.

It’s not just about data; you will become a driving force to extend our reach to more youth sports teams, their families, and communities.

What You’ll Do:

• Work closely with GTM teams to understand their needs and translate these into innovative technical solutions that drive Marketing objectives and significant business value.

• Implement a robust technical strategy for our marketing technology systems, ensuring they align with our business objectives and adapt to changing market conditions.

• Design and refine the architecture of our marketing technology stack, emphasizing scalability, reliability, and security to handle increasing volumes of data and complex integrations.

• Ensure the continuous operational efficiency of our marketing platforms, focusing on system availability, performance, and the integration of best-in-class tools and practices.

• Build customer-driven product features that contribute to Marketing success.

What You’ll Bring:

• A passion for customer centricity and advocating for solutions that customers value.

• Entrepreneurial spirit, using creativity to quickly build end-to-end solutions.

• Natural curiosity and bias for exploration, to learn what is possible, outside the scope of what currently exists.

• A strong track record of being involved in product discovery activities.

• At least 5 years of software development experience in NodeJS, including the development of integrations of external systems.

• Experience with MarTech platforms (handling such tasks as: behavioral analytics, event tracking, conversion attribution, messaging channels, and data analysis).

• Familiarity with managing in-app custom SDK events and understanding the lifecycle of app code bases.

You Might Even Have:

• Obsession for data, evidenced with experience working with Data Warehouses (Snowflake) to share data with various platforms.

• Passion for MarTech systems, tools, and platforms.

• Generalist mindset, capable of working up and down the stack as necessary to drive results.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proven track record of crafting and implementing effective technical solutions.

• Experience in using data-centric technologies to enhance marketing personalization and effectiveness.

• Some experience building native iOS and/or Android apps.

• Experience auditing, instrumenting, and expanding MarTech and AdTech SDKs in native and web environments, focusing on AppsFlyer and ideally Braze or similar customer engagement platforms.

Perks:

• Work remotely throughout the US* or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY.

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• Paid volunteer opportunities.

• WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.

• Snack stipend - $60 monthly to have snacks shipped to your home office.

• 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.

• Company paid access to a wellness platform to support mental, financial and physical wellbeing.

• Generous parental leave.

• 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 $160,000 and $200,000. This is part of a total compensation package that includes incentive, equity, and benefits for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by several factors including experience, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We constantly review all teammate pay to ensure a great compensation package that is fair and equal across the board.

*DICK’S Sporting Goods has company-wide practices to monitor and protect us from compliance and monetary implications as it pertains to employer state tax liabilities. Due to said guidelines put in place, we are unable to hire in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: All official recruitment communications from GameChanger will come from an email address ending in @gc.com. If you receive communication from any other domain, please be cautious, as it is likely fraudulent.