About Volo Sports
Volo provides year-round access for adults 21+ to participate in a variety of sports, fitness, tournaments, social activities, and volunteer opportunities. More than 600,000 users leverage the Volo platform to organize, meet, communicate and interact within their community. Ranked on the Inc. 5000, a list of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S., Volo now holds the position as the country’s largest adult social sports network, and currently operates nationally in Baltimore, Boston, Denver, Seattle, Charleston, New York City, New Jersey, San Diego, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.! When adults register through Volo, they Play it Forward… helping to create free quality, youth sports programs in their communities via the Volo Kids Foundation (VKF), a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that removes barriers to athletic participation by providing free programs in each of the Volo cities for kids ages 6-12, that is open to kids of all genders, races, and abilities to play at no cost to their families. Supported by volunteers, donations, and corporate and community partnerships, VKF has engaged over 20,000 kids across the country since its inception in 2015. Help us reach our goal of providing free sports to 1 million kids!
The Role
We are looking for a Staff Engineer to serve as the most senior individual contributor (IC) on the team. This role is ideal for someone who thrives as a technical decision-maker, mentor, and hands-on builder, with an eye on platform scale, product velocity, and operational excellence.
As a Staff Engineer, you will remain deeply hands-on, expected to write code regularly while setting technical direction and mentoring others. This is not a purely architect-only role — your technical leadership will come from a combination of influence and contribution.
You’ll help shape the engineering culture, lead technical delivery, and ensure we’re building the right things — the right way — as we scale to support hundreds of thousands of players across the country.
What You’ll Do
- Lead architecture and system design for a platform supporting national scale (multi-city, consumer-facing).
- Contribute significantly to the overall technical strategy across frontend, backend, and infrastructure, balancing pragmatic delivery with long-term scalability.
- Collaborate closely with Product and the Head of Engineering on technical roadmaps and implementation strategies.
- Mentor and uplevel engineers of all experience levels through design reviews, pair programming, and feedback.
- Contribute as a hands-on full-stack developer, actively writing code and helping to solve the most important technical problems.
- Implement and evolve our DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, observability, cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS), and incident management.
- Drive technical maturity initiatives like build vs. buy frameworks, decision records, and automation improvements.
- Help us create and codify engineering standards, and play a key role in hiring and onboarding new engineers
What We’re Looking For
- 8+ years of experience as a software engineer, with at least 3 years in a Staff+ IC or Tech Lead capacity.
- Proven experience making platform-wide technical decisions, especially in early or mid-stage startups.
- Full-stack expertise, ideally with strong proficiency in:
- Frontend: React, TypeScript, component architecture
- Backend: Node.js, API design, server-side logic
- DevOps: CI/CD (GitHub Actions or similar), cloud infra (GCP preferred), monitoring (Datadog, New Relic, etc.), Kubernetes
- Strong technical judgment with a bias for action and clarity — you document decisions, consider tradeoffs, and communicate well with engineers and non-engineers alike.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and improving team velocity through better practices, tooling, and automation.
- Comfort working in a low-process, high-autonomy environment where prioritization and adaptability are key.
- Bonus: Experience in consumer platforms, marketplaces, or B2C growth engineering.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class.
