Game Developer

Partyhat; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Partyhat is seeking a Kinetic Interface Engineer to bring our iGaming pipeline to life across desktop and mobile browsers. You will transform raw visuals, audio cues, and server logic into high-performance casino games running at 60fps in real time.

You’ll collaborate with product owners, designers, backend engineers, and mathematicians to push the front-end to the limit, optimize rendering, and ensure seamless cross‑browser, cross‑device experiences under load.

Qualifications

• The Interactive Craftsman: Proven experience building rich, highly animated interactive web content, premium digital animations, or browser-based games.
• Mobile-First Instinct: Cross-browser constraints, touch event handling, responsive scaling logic, and mobile asset optimization limitations.
• The Collaborative Team Member: Exceptional communication skills and a ego-free approach to working inside a high-speed, multi-disciplinary development loop where code meets art and mathematics.
• Hyper-Availability: This isn’t a passive 9-to-5 desk track. The global gaming ecosystem moves fast, and major feature drops happen continuously. You must be available 7 days a week to handle real-time production hotfixes, launch window validations, and rapid updates.
• Operational Autonomy: Self-motivated and highly structured; you write clean code, manage your asset pipeline meticulously, and can drive features across the finish line without constant supervision.

Responsibilities

• Client-Side Game Production: Architect, develop, and maintain high-fidelity, cross-browser casino games optimized flawlessly for both desktop and mobile viewports.
• Visual & Kinetic Engineering: Take static visual assets and breathe immediate life into them utilizing advanced rendering, particle effects, and high-performance animation timelines.
• Server-Driven Game Flow: Connect client-side interfaces smoothly to our core game servers, orchestrating real-time state changes, payout reveals, and audio-visual synchronization based on incoming server data packets.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner actively as a core technical driver within a cross-disciplinary squad—ensuring game artwork, audio streams, and mathematical logic are unified perfectly in the final build.
• Performance Tuning & Optimization: Ruthlessly profile memory usage, minimize draw calls, optimize asset loading sheets, and squash layout shifts to guarantee blazing-fast execution across global cellular networks.
• Codebase Maintenance: Write clean, modular, and self-documenting code layouts, ensuring our game engine patterns remain scalable, predictable, and ready for rapid deployment cycles.

Skills

TypeScript

JavaScript

WebGL

PixiJS

GSAP

Cross-Platform

Tools

PixiJS

GSAP

WebGL

Job description

The Mission

A brilliant game concept and a perfect math model mean nothing if the client-side execution isn’t liquid-smooth. We aren’t looking for a standard web developer who just builds static layouts and basic forms. We need a “Kinetic Interface Engineer” to bring our entire iGaming pipeline to life across desktop and mobile browsers. Your job is to take raw visual assets, audio cues, and server-side logic, and fuse them into spectacular, high-performance casino games that run flawlessly at 60 frames per second.

You will step directly into an elite, highly collaborative team environment, working shoulder-to-shoulder with product owners, digital artists, sound designers, backend engineers, and mathematicians. Your focus is the absolute frontier of browser-based gaming: making graphics pop with striking animations, managing relentless game flow, and implementing crisp mechanics that react instantly to our game servers. If you view browser performance as a high-stakes puzzle and have the drive to build the slickest player experiences on the web, your canvas is ready.

Key Responsibilities

• Client-Side Game Production: Architect, develop, and maintain high-fidelity, cross-browser casino games optimized flawlessly for both desktop and mobile viewports.




• Visual & Kinetic Engineering: Take static visual assets and breathe immediate life into them utilizing advanced rendering, particle effects, and high-performance animation timelines.




• Server-Driven Game Flow: Connect client-side interfaces smoothly to our core game servers, orchestrating real-time state changes, payout reveals, and audio-visual synchronization based on incoming server data packets.




• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner actively as a core technical driver within a cross-disciplinary squad—ensuring game artwork, audio streams, and mathematical logic are unified perfectly in the final build.




• Performance Tuning & Optimization: Ruthlessly profile memory usage, minimize draw calls, optimize asset loading sheets, and squash layout shifts to guarantee blazing-fast execution across global cellular networks.




• Codebase Maintenance: Write clean, modular, and self-documenting code layouts, ensuring our game engine patterns remain scalable, predictable, and ready for rapid deployment cycles.

The Frontend Arsenal

You must possess elite, hands-on mastery and deployment speed across the following technical stack:

• Core Languages: TypeScript and JavaScript (Advanced object-oriented and functional programming patterns).




• Rendering & Web Graphics: HTML5 and WebGL (Deep understanding of the browser rendering pipeline, canvas manipulation, and GPU-accelerated graphics).




• Engines & Libraries: PixiJS (or equivalent high-performance 2D WebGL rendering engines) and GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform for intricate, programmatic timing and animation scripting).

The Requirements

• The “Interactive Craftsman”: Proven experience building rich, highly animated interactive web content, premium digital animations, or browser-based games. You know exactly how to make an interface feel alive and satisfying to touch.




• Mobile-First Instinct: Deep intuition for cross-browser constraints, touch event handling, responsive scaling logic, and mobile asset optimization limitations.




• The Collaborative Team Member: Exceptional communication skills and a ego-free approach to working inside a high-speed, multi-disciplinary development loop where code meets art and mathematics.




• Hyper-Availability: This isn’t a passive 9-to-5 desk track. The global gaming ecosystem moves fast, and major feature drops happen continuously. You must be available 7 days a week to handle real-time production hotfixes, launch window validations, and rapid updates.




• Operational Autonomy: Self-motivated and highly structured; you write clean code, manage your asset pipeline meticulously, and can drive features across the finish line without constant supervision.

Operational Details

• Location: Fully Remote.




• Schedule: On-call 7 days a week (Requires high flexibility to align with real-time launch windows, global code releases, and system updates).




• Payment: All compensation is processed in digital assets (USDC/USDT).

Why Join Us?

We offer more than just a software engineering ticket-shuffling job; we offer the chance to paint the interactive footprint of a global powerhouse.

• Extreme Technical Autonomy: We value clean execution, performance wins, and innovative code architecture over red tape. If your game framework is fast and flawless, we ship it.




• Global Stage: Your visual execution, animations, and code loops will instantly face a worldwide audience, commanding the entertainment experience for thousands of active players every single second.




• A Culture of Pure Momentum: Join an elite squad that moves at lightspeed. You will be constantly building, testing fresh gameplay mechanics, and seeing your engineering hit production in real time.




• High-Growth Upside: We value “potential over pedigree.” For a Game Developer who consistently delivers uncompromised game flow and scales our front-end capacity, there is a clear, unrestricted runway to lead our entire client-side engineering organization.