Senior Software Engineer (AMS)

We're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to tackle some of the toughest performance and scalability challenges in our Athlete Management System (AMS), owning the work from initial investigation through production. I'm Charbel Al Batal, Director, Engineering at Teamworks. AMS supports elite sports and military organizations around the world and runs on a Java application with roughly twenty years of history.

We’re building on that foundation to support significantly larger workloads, making thoughtful improvements where they will have the greatest impact.We’re expanding the AMS backend team as part of a major effort to improve performance, reliability, and scale. The work includes evolving a legacy data model, reworking asynchronous processing, and strengthening observability. We’re looking for an engineer who enjoys digging into complex, established systems and finding practical ways to improve them.

You’ll have meaningful influence over how AMS evolves—particularly its data-access patterns, asynchronous architecture, containerization strategy, and approach to performance at scale—and customers will directly feel the impact of your work.The RoleFind and address performance bottlenecks across APIs, database queries, calculations, and background jobs, with a focus on improving latency, throughput, and resource useImprove the data-access layer and gradually evolve a legacy data model that relies heavily on XML and JSONStrengthen our queue and asynchronous processing architecture so resource-intensive workloads are separated from customer-facing traffic, calculations complete as close to real time as possible, and retries and failures are handled reliablyImprove monitoring and observability, establish performance baselines for large workloads, and help the team spot issues before they affect customersOperate with a high degree of independence, turning broad performance and scalability goals into technical plans and driving them through productionPartner with our Data Platform team as AMS becomes an early consumer of Teamworks’ evolving data platform, helping integrate new data capabilities into an established applicationServe as a trusted technical partner to engineering leadership by reviewing complex architectural changes, mentoring engineers, and helping the team balance immediate scaling needs with longer-term improvementsWhat I'm Looking ForWhat You Must Bring6+ years of backend engineering experience, including ownership of complex systems from design through productionStrong Java skills and hands-on experience working with and improving established codebasesExperience with PostgreSQL, RESTful API design, and performance optimization at scaleExperience operating backend applications in AWS and working effectively with containerized infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code toolingUS citizenship and US-based residency, which are required for access to the secure environment supported by this roleWillingness to participate in an on-call rotationEven Better IfExperience moving monolithic applications toward containerized or service-oriented architecturesExperience in data-intensive, high-scale, or security-sensitive environmentsExperience with PythonA strong understanding of the JVM, including how to troubleshoot memory and CPU issues under loadA DevOps background and deep experience with AWSA bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related fieldWhy This RoleYou’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of a well-established product used by elite sports and military organizations around the world.

The challenges are complex, the work has a clear impact, and you’ll have meaningful ownership over how AMS grows and performs. It’s a strong fit for someone who likes solving difficult backend problems and wants to see those improvements make a difference for customers.This role is not eligible for sponsorship at this time.To all recruitment agencies: Teamworks does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Teamworks employees or any other organization location.

Teamworks is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.About TeamworksWe're the Operating System for Sports™, powering 7,000+ organizations worldwide, from collegiate programs to every major pro league. Founded in 2006, we've evolved from a messaging tool for college football into the leading sports tech platform, with 600+ global teammates building the future of sports tech.

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