Game Developer

ByteForge Labs; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 73,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Technology ownership

Mentorship and growth

Job summary

ByteForge Labs in Long Beach is seeking an engineer to scale systems handling traffic across CA and beyond. Earn $73,000 - $113,000 with technology ownership and a collaborative crew focused on your success.

You will tackle Next.js race conditions, maintain Kafka features, and optimize hot paths, while translating metrics into leadership dashboards and prototyping with Express.js. Interviews for Long Beach, CA candidates are being booked throughout the month.

Qualifications

• Junior mastery of Webpack, validated by people who'd hire you again
• A solid foundation in Organization, refined over 1+ years
• A collaborative mindset and genuine enthusiasm for teamwork
• Comfort defending a recommendation in front of skeptics
• Adaptability and resilience when facing shifting requirements
• Demonstrated knack for making the supportive feel manageable

Responsibilities

• Catch the Next.js race conditions that only surface under Long Beach peak traffic
• Carry an ego-light Kafka feature through code freeze without breaking ByteForge Labs stability
• Shave milliseconds off the technology hot path that ByteForge Labs users feel every click
• Translate Communication metrics into the one chart ByteForge Labs leadership checks each morning
• Translate a napkin idea from ByteForge Labs founders into an Express.js collaborative prototype
• Ensure code quality through automated linting, testing, and static analysis
• Own the learning-obsessed edge cases in ByteForge Labs's Kafka billing nobody else wants to touch
• Defend ByteForge Labs uptime through the 2 a.m. Long Beach pages nobody volunteers for

Skills

Attention to detail

Teamwork

Adaptability

Organizational skills

Tools

Webpack

Job description

Join our engineering team in Long Beach and help us scale systems that handle traffic from across CA and beyond. Trade 1 years of Kafka for $73,000 - $113,000 and you also get technology ownership and a ByteForge Labs crew that wants you to win.

Key Responsibilities

• Catch the Next.js race conditions that only surface under Long Beach peak traffic
• Carry an ego-light Kafka feature through code freeze without breaking ByteForge Labs stability
• Shave milliseconds off the technology hot path that ByteForge Labs users feel every click
• Translate Communication metrics into the one chart ByteForge Labs leadership checks each morning
• Translate a napkin idea from ByteForge Labs founders into an Express.js collaborative prototype
• Ensure code quality through automated linting, testing, and static analysis
• Own the learning-obsessed edge cases in ByteForge Labs's Kafka billing nobody else wants to touch
• Defend ByteForge Labs uptime through the 2 a.m. Long Beach pages nobody volunteers for

What You'll Bring

• Junior mastery of Webpack, validated by people who'd hire you again
• The kind of attention to detail that catches what spell-check misses
• A solid foundation in Organization, refined over 1+ years
• A collaborative mindset and genuine enthusiasm for teamwork
• Comfort defending a recommendation in front of skeptics
• Adaptability and resilience when facing shifting requirements
• Demonstrated knack for making the supportive feel manageable

Trusted by businesses nationwide, ByteForge Labs operates an endlessly-iterating technology platform from its Long Beach base. We onboard you to the technology mission first and the Communication tooling second, in that order.

Combine $73,000 - $113,000 with growth, generous benefits, and a mentor, and you have the reason people stay at ByteForge Labs for years.

Interviews for Long Beach, CA candidates are being booked throughout the month.