What are the responsibilities and job description for the Backend Software Engineer Intern, Core Services position at GameChanger?
About GameChanger:
We believe in the life changing impact youth sports have on and off the field. Sports 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.
Kick-start your career at GameChanger! Serving youth sports communities, our app is used to score and live stream millions of games each year. Join us for a 2025 paid internship where you will grow your skills for the road that lies ahead. Our program starts on June 9th and will run for 10 weeks, concluding on August 15th.
The Position:
You’ll work on GameChanger’s Core Services team to design, write, test and release a deliverable. As part of the platform group you will build the foundation of our system with some of the most experienced engineers within our organization. During your time here, you will learn about the technologies that drive our business and collaborate with other engineers while building new features which will help us to elevate the next generation through sports.
What You'll Do:
We believe in the life changing impact youth sports have on and off the field. Sports 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.
Kick-start your career at GameChanger! Serving youth sports communities, our app is used to score and live stream millions of games each year. Join us for a 2025 paid internship where you will grow your skills for the road that lies ahead. Our program starts on June 9th and will run for 10 weeks, concluding on August 15th.
The Position:
You’ll work on GameChanger’s Core Services team to design, write, test and release a deliverable. As part of the platform group you will build the foundation of our system with some of the most experienced engineers within our organization. During your time here, you will learn about the technologies that drive our business and collaborate with other engineers while building new features which will help us to elevate the next generation through sports.
What You'll Do:
- Collaborate with a team of experienced engineers.
- Participate in the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) while learning best practices in software architecture, testing, and clean coding.
- Learn how to contribute to a CI-driven, scaled engineering organization.
- Develop full-stack applications using technologies like TypeScript, Postgres, Redis, Docker, and Vue.
- Work with great people, an awesome product, and have lots of fun together along the way!
- You are pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in a related field, or looking to make a career change.
- You are willing to participate in professional development activities to stay current on industry knowledge
- You are looking for an opportunity to sharpen your technical skills
- Your curiosity guides you to dig deep and understand how systems work beyond the surface level.
- You communicate updates and resolutions to customers and other partners and are enthusiastic about using technology to enhance people’s lives.
- 10 weeks of experience working on an app that is used by millions of people.
- $50 per hour pay for your contributions.
- A trip to NYC for orientation week at GameChanger HQ.
- MacBooks provided for the duration of the internship by GC.
- Mentorship from other GC teammates to guide you through the experience.
- Ability to work remotely throughout the US so you can enjoy your summer from wherever you choose*.
- Build industry connections with intern peers and GC teammates.
- DICK’S Sporting Goods has company-wide practices to monitor and protect the company from significant 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.
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