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title: 'Senior Software Engineer (AMS) at Teamworks'
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# Senior Software Engineer (AMS) at Teamworks

- **Company:** Teamworks
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-26
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/teamworks/e07cdd09-6ad9-47c2-9322-3766405c3473

## Job description

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 Role

- Find and address performance bottlenecks across APIs, database queries, calculations, and background jobs, with a focus on improving latency, throughput, and resource use
- Improve the data-access layer and gradually evolve a legacy data model that relies heavily on XML and JSON
- Strengthen 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 reliably
- Improve monitoring and observability, establish performance baselines for large workloads, and help the team spot issues before they affect customers
- Operate with a high degree of independence, turning broad performance and scalability goals into technical plans and driving them through production
- Partner with our Data Platform team as AMS becomes an early consumer of Teamworks’ evolving data platform, helping integrate new data capabilities into an established application
- Serve 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 improvements

What I'm Looking For

## What You Must Bring

- 6+ years of backend engineering experience, including ownership of complex systems from design through production
- Strong Java skills and hands-on experience working with and improving established codebases
- Experience with PostgreSQL, RESTful API design, and performance optimization at scale
- Experience operating backend applications in AWS and working effectively with containerized infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code tooling
- US citizenship and US-based residency, which are required for access to the secure environment supported by this role
- Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation

Even Better If

- Experience moving monolithic applications toward containerized or service-oriented architectures
- Experience in data-intensive, high-scale, or security-sensitive environments
- Experience with Python
- A strong understanding of the JVM, including how to troubleshoot memory and CPU issues under load
- A DevOps background and deep experience with AWS
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field

## Why This Role

You’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 Teamworks

We'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. Our solutions span Personnel, Coaching, Performance, Operations, and Intelligence - helping teams recruit smarter, train better, stay compliant, and win.

Teamworks is an equal opportunity employer - if you live our core values every day and are honest, hardworking, humble, committed, innovative, and an all-around exceptional person, you'll thrive at Teamworks. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and take affirmative action to not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, promotion, termination, compensation, benefits, and training. Teamworks is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email talent@teamworks.com.

## About Teamworks

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Teamworks provides an "Operating System for Sports™," a unified software platform that powers operations, performance, recruiting, and analytics for elite sports organizations worldwide.
- **Entity Type**: Private (has raised ~$400M in funding)
- **Headquarters**: Durham, North Carolina, USA
- **Founded**: 2005 (originally founded; official entity date often listed as 2006) [teamworks.com](https://teamworks.com/about-us/)
- **Founders**: Zach Maurides (CEO), Mitch Heath (Co-Founder) [teamworks.com](https://teamworks.com/about-us/)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Sports Technology (SaaS), Athlete Performance, Collegiate Athletics, Military & Tactical
- **Target customers**: Professional sports teams, leagues, collegiate athletic departments, military and tactical organizations, and performance coaches
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To empower athletes and those who support them with technology that unlocks their full potential." [teamworks.com](https://teamworks.com/about-us/)

## Products & Services
- **Teamworks Operations**: Centralized platform for scheduling, communication, travel, compliance, and roster management. Type: SaaS.
- **Teamworks Performance (formerly Smartabase)**: Athlete management system for monitoring health, wellness, training load, and injury tracking. Type: SaaS.
- **Teamworks Recruiting**: End-to-end recruiting software for managing prospects, visits, and compliance. Type: SaaS.
- **Teamworks Intelligence (formerly Zelus Analytics)**: Advanced machine learning and predictive modeling for athlete evaluation, roster construction, contract valuation, and game strategy. Type: SaaS / Data Analytics.
- **Teamworks Personnel**: HR and staff management tools tailored to sports organizations. Type: SaaS.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of ~$400M. They power over 7,000 organizations globally, including teams in every major professional league and 520+ collegiate athletic departments. [teamworks.com](https://teamworks.com/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Has raised $400M in total funding; specific lead investors include firms like Vista Equity Partners (from a 2021 growth investment).
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid growth through acquisition of multiple best-in-class tech companies (e.g., Zelus Analytics, Smartabase). Global expansion now covers 17 countries with 485+ employees. Named one of *Sports Business Journal’s* Best Places to Work in Sports 2023 (Gold Medalist). [teamworks.com](https://teamworks.com/careers/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified Platform**: The only company offering a single, integrated "Operating System for Sports" that covers operations, performance, recruiting, and analytics—reducing fragmentation for clients.
- **Deep Industry Entrenchment**: With 7,000+ organizations as clients, including all major professional leagues and hundreds of D1 colleges, the switching costs for clients are high.
- **Data Moat**: Teamworks Intelligence (ML/AI) generates proprietary predictive models and metrics, creating a data advantage that competitors struggle to replicate.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI & Data Leadership**: Heavy investment in machine learning (Teamworks Intelligence) to provide predictive insights for recruiting, talent evaluation, and in-game strategy.
- **Global Expansion**: Continuing to expand their footprint beyond North America into new markets and sports.
- **Product Integration**: Deepening the integration between their acquired products (Operations, Performance, Recruiting) to deliver a seamless, end-to-end experience.
- **Military & Tactical Sector**: Growing a dedicated vertical for military and tactical organizations, using their platform for logistics and personnel management.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Mission**: "Founded by athletes, for athletes, in support of sport." The company emphasizes humility, hard work, innovation, and commitment. [teamworks.com](https://teamworks.com/about-us/)
- **Remote-First & Flexibility**: Described as a "remote-first company" with a focus on quality of work, not hours. Offices in Durham (HQ), Brisbane, Reading, Birmingham, Broomfield, and Boston are open for collaboration but not mandatory. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/teamworks)
- **Award-Winning Workplace**: Voted a Gold Medalist in *Sports Business Journal’s* "Best Places to Work in Sports" (2023). [teamworks.com](https://teamworks.com/careers/)
- **Growth & Development**: Offers a professional development budget and encourages internal mobility and career growth.
- **Total Rewards**: Competitive salaries (recalibrated annually), equity, retirement plans, and best-in-class health, dental, and vision benefits. [teamworks.com](https://teamworks.com/careers/)
- **Engineering Culture**: Remote-friendly engineering roles focused on modern tech stacks (AI, Data Science, Engineering). Active hiring for Data Engineers, Applied AI Engineers, and Computer Vision Researchers.

## Sources
1. [teamworks.com](https://teamworks.com/) - Official website for product and company overview.
2. [teamworks.com/about-us/](https://teamworks.com/about-us/) - Company history, mission, leadership, and values.
3. [teamworks.com/careers/](https://teamworks.com/careers/) - Careers page with culture, benefits, and interview guide.
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/teamworks](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/teamworks) - Official job listings portal.
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/teamworks) - Third-party profile with office locations, tech stack, and employee count.

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