GameChanger
GameChanger
51 – 200 Employees
MediaSaaSSports

GameChanger is a sports technology company building digital tools for youth and amateur sports. Its app brings together live video streaming, scorekeeping, team management, lineup sharing, in-app messaging, and game insights across sports including baseball, softball, basketball, football, volleyball, soccer, and lacrosse.

Through products such as GameChanger Film Room and Streaming Kits, the platform helps coaches organize teams while giving players, families, and fans ways to follow games in real time from anywhere. GameChanger is part of the DICK'S Sporting Goods family and works with major sports organizations to support more connected youth sports experiences. Its team also publishes company news and product updates through an in-app content hub.

Staff Data Engineer

Set technical direction and build AI-enabled data platforms that power analytics and product capabilities for GameChanger’s youth sports technology business.

Description

  • Set multi-quarter direction for GameChanger’s data platform in partnership with the Data Engineering Manager.
  • Turn project concepts into actionable plans and align teams on complex, cross-functional initiatives.
  • Build partnerships across technical and non-technical teams and identify where focused support is needed.
  • Lead advocacy and training efforts to encourage adoption.
  • Design and develop resilient, efficient data platforms for analytics and operational workloads.
  • Review company-wide specifications and pull requests to guide sound technical design.
  • Promote AI-supported self-service analytics and software development.
  • Strengthen system performance, monitoring, reliability, and scalability.
  • Introduce infrastructure and software patterns when the platform needs them.
  • Share expertise through documentation, code reviews, technical talks, mentoring, and proposed standards.
  • Take part in the Data Engineering on-call rotation.
  • Investigate and resolve complex issues across systems and services.
  • Work with engineering and business teams to anticipate needs, improve the platform, and support new capabilities.

Requirements

  • Bring 8 or more years of experience building data or backend systems, including technical work across multiple teams.
  • Demonstrate expert use of AI-assisted software development.
  • Use Python expertly to build data pipelines and maintainable production software.
  • Bring deep SQL skills and experience with Snowflake or BigQuery cloud data warehouses.
  • Have built software systems or partnered closely with software teams.
  • Use containers and orchestration tools proficiently; Airflow is preferred.
  • Use infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform proficiently.
  • Work proficiently with Kubernetes, Kafka, and streaming data pipelines.
  • Have proficiency with cloud services such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
  • Bring an AI-forward outlook and enthusiasm for adopting AI.
  • Communicate effectively in writing and conversation.
  • Adapt communication to different audiences and influence without direct authority.
  • Prioritize team success, mentoring, continuous learning, and independently adopting new tools and techniques.
  • Be based in the United States, excluding Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, and South Carolina.
  • Be legally authorized to work in the United States.
  • Be at least 18 years old.

Benefits

  • Choose remote work within the United States or work from the modern Manhattan, New York office.
  • Unlimited vacation policy.
  • Paid opportunities to volunteer.
  • $4,000 technology stipend every two years.
  • $500 annual work-from-home stipend.
  • $500 annual learning stipend.
  • Monthly physical, mental, wellness, and learning stipend through Holisticly.
  • Monthly lifestyle stipend through Fringe.
  • Comprehensive health coverage, including medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and family or dependent coverage.
  • 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 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
  • Family-building benefits through Progyny.
  • Discounts at DICK’S Sporting Goods and its family of brands.
  • Eligible roles include incentives and equity as part of a competitive total rewards package.

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