Game Developer — Flexible Part-Time with Mentorship

Starbucks Corp.; 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 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.