Game Developer

Starbucks; Coeur d'Alene (ID); On-site; USD 52,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Starbucks Corp. is seeking a Game Developer to join a small, opinionated engineering team in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Bring microservices and Spring Boot expertise with 1+ years of end-to-end project leadership as Starbucks offers a pay range of $52,000 to $85,000, plus a growth path and mentorship.

The role focuses on bug fixing, authentication hardening, Terraform prototyping, and fault-tolerant distributed systems, with opportunities to optimize latency and drive meaningful impact.

Qualifications

• ID work history or strong reasons you'll thrive here.
• Discipline to document while it's fresh.
• 1+ years steering technology projects end to end.
• Strong rapport-building skills and a positive presence.
• Hands-on technology experience with ability to follow up questions.

Responsibilities

• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools.
• Harden Starbucks's Facilitation auth so the ID audit comes back clean.
• Translate a napkin idea from Starbucks founders into a Terraform quality-focused prototype.
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Delegation and C#.
• Stress-test Node.js systems until they bend, then harden where they cracked.
• Guard the Delegation codebase quality through reviews that teach as much as they catch.
• Hunt down the latency spikes nobody at Starbucks can explain.

Skills

End-to-end project leadership

Hands-on technical experience

Rapport building

Documentation discipline

Tools

Terraform

Node.js

C#

Spring Boot

Job description

Starbucks keeps a small, opinionated engineering team in Coeur d'Alene, and the next opinion we need belongs to a Game Developer. Bring Microservices and Spring Boot sharpened over 1 years, and Starbucks answers with $52,000 - $85,000 plus a clear path up.

Key Responsibilities

• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools
• Harden Starbucks's Facilitation auth so the ID audit comes back clean
• Translate a napkin idea from Starbucks founders into a Terraform quality-focused prototype
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Delegation and C#
• Stress-test Node.js systems until they bend, then harden where they cracked
• Guard the Delegation codebase quality through reviews that teach as much as they catch
• Hunt down the latency spikes nobody at Starbucks can explain

What You'll Bring

• An ID work history, or strong reasons you'll thrive here anyway
• The discipline to document while it's fresh, not after it's forgotten
• 1 or more years steering technology projects end to end
• Strong rapport-building skills and a genuinely positive presence
• Hands-on technology experience that holds up to follow-up questions

Think of Starbucks as the craft-obsessed engine behind some of the most trusted technology products on the market. Recognition here is specific and frequent, not saved up for some annual Coeur d'Alene, ID ceremony.

We are offering $52,000 - $85,000, a clear growth track, hands-on mentorship, and the kind of flexibility that keeps ID talent happy.

Open today, open right now, and waiting for the right Game Developer.

If steady part-time work with real stakes appeals to you, the Game Developer chair is waiting.