Remote Game Developer: Own Impact & Growth

Nordstrom, Inc.; City of Rochester (NY); Remote; USD 67,000 - 91,000; Full time

Job summary

Nordstrom, Inc. seeks a Game Developer to dive deep into a chosen goal and own the stack, with a remote role in Rochester, NY, offering a salary range of $67,000–$91,000 per year. You’ll own impactful work and momentum within a collaborative, fast-moving environment.

With roughly 4+ years in game development and strong communication skills, you’ll translate stakeholder wishes into shippable Jenkins services, tune data pipelines, and work with Docker-driven infrastructure and testing practices.

Qualifications

• Self-motivated, able to work independently with minimal oversight.
• Confident communicator across email, calls, and in-person meetings.
• Roughly 4+ years operating in a similar Game Developer position.
• The diplomacy to align stakeholders who don't agree yet.

Responsibilities

• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput Nordstrom workloads.
• Wire up Docker feature flags so Nordstrom can test on Rochester traffic risk-free.
• Translate fuzzy product wishes from Nordstrom stakeholders into shippable Jenkins services.
• Scale data pipelines processing millions of events with Jest.
• Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production.
• Build responsive, accessible front-end interfaces with Docker.
• Pair-program tricky Docker edge cases with engineers across Rochester, NY

Skills

Self-motivated

Confident communicator

Stakeholder alignment

4+ years game development

Tools

Docker

Jenkins

Jest

Job description

Nordstrom, Inc. seeks a Game Developer to dive deep into a chosen goal and own the stack, with a remote role in Rochester, NY, offering a salary range of $67,000–$91,000 per year. You’ll own impactful work and momentum within a collaborative, fast-moving environment.

With roughly 4+ years in game development and strong communication skills, you’ll translate stakeholder wishes into shippable Jenkins services, tune data pipelines, and work with Docker-driven infrastructure and testing practices.