Founding Product Engineer

FPS Lounge; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Equity grant 0.75%–1.5%

4-year vesting with 1-year cliff

Hardware and software budget

Free Pro membership and coaching

Job summary

FPS Lounge, Inc. is hiring a senior platform engineer to own the production stack, including deployments, monitoring, incident responses, and rollbacks.

You will ensure reliability for sign-up, booking, checkout, subscriptions, coach payouts, and school accounts, while building integrations with payments, video, email and messaging services. You will ship product improvements, measure their impact, and document changes.

Qualifications

• You have shipped and operated production TypeScript web applications, including payments or authentication you were accountable for.
• You debug production issues methodically and explain trade-offs in plain language.
• You use AI coding tools and verify their output before it ships.

Responsibilities

• Own production: deployments, monitoring, incident response and rollbacks.
• Keep core customer workflows reliable: sign-up, booking, checkout, subscriptions, coach payouts and school accounts.
• Build and maintain integrations with payment, video, email and messaging providers.
• Ship product improvements, measure their effect and report what changed.
• Set the review standard for code written with AI tools, and review that code.
• Document how the systems work so others can operate them.

Skills

TypeScript

Payments

Authentication

Debug production issues

AI tooling usage

Tools

Next.js

React

Firebase/Firestore

Stripe Connect

Video streaming

Product analytics

Experimentation

Job description

Own the FPS Lounge platform in production: reliability, core customer workflows, integrations and measured product improvements.

Reports to

Derek Taing, Founder & CEO

Engagement

Full-time. Full-time, sharing responsibility for production issues.

Why this role exists

The platform runs real bookings, payments, coach payouts and school programs, and today the founder is the only engineer. This role takes ownership of production so the product can improve faster without becoming less reliable.

What you'll do

• Own production: deploys, monitoring, incident response and rollbacks.
• Keep the core customer workflows reliable: sign-up, booking, checkout, subscriptions, coach payouts and school accounts.
• Build and maintain integrations with payment, video, email and messaging providers.
• Ship product improvements, measure their effect and report what changed.
• Set the review standard for code written with AI tools, and review that code.
• Document how the systems work so others can operate them.

Advanced player-intelligence projects are scoped separately and are not the core of this role.

Essential

• You have shipped and operated production TypeScript web applications, including payments or authentication you were accountable for.
• You debug production issues methodically and explain trade-offs in plain language.
• You use AI coding tools and verify their output before it ships.

Helpful experience

• Next.js, React, Firebase or Firestore, and Stripe, including Connect.
• Video delivery or streaming platforms.
• Product analytics and running experiments.
• Familiarity with competitive games.

What good looks like

• Deploys, rollbacks and incident response run without the founder.
• Core customer workflows are monitored, and failures are caught before customers report them.
• Each shipped improvement has a measured before and after.
• Rules for money, authentication and accounts are documented and enforced in code review.

Compensation

$130k–$155k base Initial equity grant 0.75%–1.5%. Equity is a one-time total initial grant, subject to vesting and formal board approval. It is not annual compensation or a guarantee of future ownership. Where you land in the range depends on experience. Final terms are confirmed in writing. Benefits: Fully remote, with hours set around the people you serve. Equity for full-time hires: four-year vest, one-year cliff. Hardware and software budget for the work. Free Pro membership and coaching on the platform.

How we hire

• Intro call: 30 minutes with Derek about your work and the role.
• Work sample: A short, paid task drawn from the real work.
• Deeper conversation: How you would approach the outcomes for the role.
• Written terms: Final role, pay and start date confirmed in writing.

About FPS Lounge

FPS Lounge helps competitive gamers improve through expert coaching, educational content, and programs for players and institutions. We’re building toward a connected platform for player development, expert talent, and competition across games. We are a small, remote team. You work directly with the founder, take responsibility for defined outcomes, and use evidence to improve the product and the customer experience.