Who We Are:
As Nelson Mandela said, “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does.”
At LeagueApps, we agree. Mission-driven at our core, every member of our team is committed to a world where all kids and communities can benefit from youth sports. We help leading youth sports organizations operate, engage, and win with the industry's most comprehensive youth sports management platform. We power thousands of clubs, camps, tournaments, and leagues, and reach millions of participants each day.
Beyond our technology, we’re focused on developing the industry’s youth sports leaders through our NextUp: Youth Sports Management Community—providing them with opportunities for professional development and networking. Through events, content, and leadership development programming, we’re taking youth sports management to the next level. Through our FundPlay program, we provide support to sports-based youth development organizations that bring sports experiences to hundreds of thousands of underserved kids and communities. We are also founding members and leaders of the PLAY Sports Coalition, a group that advocates for youth sports at the national level.
LeagueApps is positioned for continued rapid growth, with financing from leading institutional and individual investors including Contour Venture Partners, Major League Baseball, Elysian Park Ventures, Julie Foudy, and Shane Battier, We were recognized by Deloitte's Fast 500 list in 2019 and 2020. We were ranked in the top 25 “Best Employers in Sports” by Front Office Sports, and named a "Best Place to Work" by Inc. and by BuiltIn NYC.
Role Mission:
LeagueApps is looking for a Full-Stack Software Engineer to join our Schedules squad and extend our product leadership in the market. This person will play an integral role on our technology team by building, deploying and operating new products and services.
This person will work closely with other Engineers, UX Design and Product Managers in an Agile development environment to build great product features. You must be excited by the opportunity to build products and services that impact and change the way people experience and enjoy playing sports. You must be a disciplined self-starter capable of delivering quality work in a fast-paced startup environment.
What You’ll Do:
- Partner and collaborate with engineering, product, design, and other business stakeholders to design and implement impactful product features to make the lives of our users easier
- Develop features and improvements to the LeagueApps product in a secure, well-tested, scalable and performant way
- Confidently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
- Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity
- Work across the full tech stack including our new stack (React, TypeScript, CSS, HTML, GoLang, Kotlin, Postgres) and old (Java, JSPs, Struts 2, Spring MVC, Hibernate, MySQL) hosted in GCP
- Craft code and participate in code reviews that meet our internal standards for style, maintainability, quality, and best practices for a high-scale web environment
- Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions
- Develop test cases and support testing efforts for manual and automated testing
- Participate in troubleshooting and escalated technical support for production issues
Who You Are:
- Motivated by the impact you have on the lives of the children that participate in youth sport experiences that our partners provide using our software
- Passionate about building great software
- Positive, solution-oriented mindset
- Thrive in a fully-remote and highly-collaborative environment
- Write clean, testable code with an eye towards maintainability
- Smart, humble, and enjoy learning as much as teaching
- Expertise with development languages and frameworks across the full stack - preferably React, TypeScript, GoLang, and/or Java.
- Experience in working in small fast-paced Agile teams and environments with multiple simultaneous tasks/projects.
- Familiarity working in codebases that have involved multiple developers through time
Compensation & Benefits:
- Compensation:
- Equity Grants: Every employee is an owner in our Company
- Health Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision coverage, HSA
- Commuter Benefits
- Home-Office Stipend
- Sports Leagues subsidies for employees and their children
- Cell phone and gym subsidies (including Class Pass, Citi Bike, and New York Sports Club)
- Mental Health Resources; Talk Space and Calm
- Social impact opportunities through our FundPlay initiative that includes events, volunteering and grant-making
LeagueApps is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable organization, and to helping youth sports organizers across the country do the same.
The duties listed are not exclusive and other duties may be assigned as needed or desired by the employer to meet business needs. The employer reserves the right to change, add to or eliminate positions as it deems appropriate. Your employment will be at-will, meaning you or LeagueApps Inc. may terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without cause or advance notice, for any reason.
Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry, and are one part of the total compensation package that also includes benefits, and other opportunities at LeagueApps. Individual pay decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal pay parity relative to other LeagueApps employees. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at LeagueApps to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors.
