Senior/Staff Software Engineer – Frontend

Game Devs of Color Expo; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Game Devs of Color Expo is seeking a frontend engineer to join a talented team building large-scale features for a 100+ million user platform. You’ll primarily work in React within an Electron app, iterating quickly and delivering high-quality, creator-focused experiences.

You’ll collaborate with leadership and the product team, own end-to-end quality of complex features, and apply performance profiling and metrics to guide shipping decisions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of frontend engineering experience.
• Experience with React, Redux, Node, and Electron.
• Bonus to have full-stack XP: including Java, C#, and C++.
• In-person: Looking to hire in NYC to contribute alongside the product team. 5 days in the office.
• Ownership & attention to detail: You see things through, and can be responsible for end-to-end quality of complex features.
• Code Performance: Excellent understanding of code performance implications in production and confident with profiling tools.
• Be result-driven: Everything we do is driven by the metrics and performance of the feature.
• Measuring with metrics: Comfort with A/B testing and measuring results with usage metrics.
• Gaming: A passion for games and the gaming communities, and a user of Discord and other gaming-adjacent products. XP working on gaming-related projects is a plus.

Skills

Frontend engineering

React

Redux

Node.js

Electron

A/B testing

Metrics-driven

Code performance profiling

Gaming community experience

Tools

Electron framework

Java

C#

C++

Job description

The Role

You'll join a talented team of engineers experienced with large-scale applications, helping scale the platform to 100+ million users by building high-quality features that creators love and creating new experiences for the next generation of gamers. Most of your work will be in React on our Electron app, where you'll iterate quickly to see which features stick, working directly with leadership and our community to ship features regularly.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of frontend engineering experience
• Experience with React, Redux, Node, and Electron: You'll spend most of your time building things with React and will need to understand modern React practices and JavaScript in general
• Bonus to have full-stack XP: including Java, C#, and C++
• In-person: Looking to hire in NYC to contribute alongside the product team. 5 days in the office
• Ownership & attention to detail: You see things through, and can be responsible for end-to-end quality of complex features
• Code Performance: Excellent understanding of code performance implications in production and confident with profiling tools
• Be result-driven: Everything we do is driven by the metrics and performance of the feature. We move fast and ship regularly
• Measuring with metrics: Comfort with A/B testing and measuring results with usage metrics
• Gaming: A passion for games and the gaming communities, and a user of Discord and other gaming-adjacent products. XP working on gaming-related projects is a plus

Our Stack

Electron, React, Redux, Styled Components & other modern web-based technologies

C# and C++ for native Windows recording & more

Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android

Java, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes for backend

Terraform, Salt, GitHub Actions, CircleCI for IaC and CI/CD