Job Summary:

Engineering at Gametime

You will be a key contributor to the Engineering team responsible for building and maintaining the client-side applications and backend systems that power the Gametime experience for millions of users. We empower engineers to take full ownership of their code and foster a culture grounded in testing, code reviews, observability, experimentation, and operational excellence. At Gametime, we value collaboration, inclusivity, and the strength of diverse perspectives — creating an environment where people love to build together.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Technical Lead, Backend Engineering to join the E-Commerce Platform team.  This team is responsible for the technology and systems that power the Payment, Fraud, and Account Management domains of the Gametime marketplace. This is a senior individual contributor (IC4) position for engineers who are domain experts, lead complex initiatives across teams, and raise the technical bar through mentorship and architectural influence. You will collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, Design, Data, and business stakeholders to shape the future of our platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the architecture and implementation of high-performance Golang microservices for e-commerce checkout, account management, and fraud mitigation.
• Own the technical design and execution of cross-functional projects, ensuring long-term scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Build, test, monitor, and maintain mission-critical integrations and infrastructure.
• Explore and help implement AI-powered capabilities within our systems and workflows, including agentic tools and intelligent automation.
• Develop reliable external and internal APIs supporting up to 1 million RPM.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Data to shape technical solutions that align with customer and business needs.
• Mentor engineers across the team by sharing knowledge, reviewing code, and encouraging engineering excellence.
• Drive the end-to-end execution of projects, from initial concept to production.
• Identify and drive improvements in system reliability, scalability, observability, and deployment pipelines.
• Promote a high-performing, inclusive engineering culture through tech talks, code quality standards, and thought leadership.

Key Competencies:

Technical Skills:

• Backend Language Proficiency: Expertise in developing high-throughput systems using Golang (or Python, Ruby, Java, C++, C#, Rust, Scala, etc.).

Codegen Tooling: Experienced in using AI for Codegen and evangelizing use and best practices for integrating it into development workflow.

• Scalable Systems: Experience building distributed systems that support millions of RPM with low latency.
• Familiarity with: OIDC Authentication (Google, Apple SSO), E-Commerce Fraud Prevention, Payment Service Provider Integrations (Stripe)
• Workflow Orchestration: Experience designing and operating state machines and long-running workflows using systems like AWS Step Functions, Temporal, or equivalent orchestration frameworks.
• API Design: Skilled at designing resilient public and internal APIs
• Cloud Infrastructure: Proficient with AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Event-Driven Architecture: Strong experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or equivalent messaging systems.
• Database Management: Strong experience with SQL (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL systems (e.g. MongoDB, DynamoDB, etc.).

• Nice to Have Qualifications: 

  • Proven experience with workflow orchestration and automation tools; minimum 2 years of hands-on experience with EDFlow for streamlining cross-functional data pipelines and legacy system integration.

Leadership & Collaboration:

• Domain Expertise/Ownership: Deep understanding of key product areas with the ability to lead initiatives from concept through production.
• Mentorship: Actively mentors engineers and uplifts team performance through coaching and feedback.
• Project Leadership: Independently manages the full lifecycle of complex projects involving multiple stakeholders.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Strong communicator and trusted partner to Product, Design, Data, and Engineering peers.
• Strategic Influence: Helps shape technical direction, roadmap priorities, and engineering best practices.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: 8+ years in software engineering with 4+ years specifically working on high-throughput backend systems.

Engineering at Gametime

You will be a key contributor to the Engineering team responsible for building and maintaining the client-side applications and backend systems that power the Gametime experience for millions of users. We empower engineers to take full ownership of their code and foster a culture grounded in testing, code reviews, observability, experimentation, and operational excellence. At Gametime, we value collaboration, inclusivity, and the strength of diverse perspectives that will create an environment where people love to build together.

We are also investing deeply in the future of AI. This includes building internal tools and workflows powered by AI, incorporating agentic systems into our backend architecture, and preparing our marketplace and infrastructure to be AI-ready. Engineers are encouraged to explore and adopt AI capabilities in their development process, and those who contribute to advancing AI adoption within our stack will play a key role in shaping that evolution.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Full Stack Engineer to join the Core E-Commerce Platform team. This team is responsible for the technology and systems that power the Payment, Fraud, and Account Management domains of the Gametime marketplace, spanning backend services and user-facing web and mobile applications.

This is a senior individual contributor (IC3) position for engineers who demonstrate strong technical ownership, contribute to key projects across the stack, and support engineering excellence through thoughtful implementation and collaboration. You will work closely with Engineering, Product, Design, Data, and business stakeholders to shape the future of our platform end-to-end.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement high-performance Golang microservices for e-commerce checkout, account management, and fraud mitigation.
• Build and maintain user-facing features across web and mobile clients using React and React Native, in close collaboration with Product and Design.
• Take ownership of full stack components and features, ensuring reliability, scalability, maintainability, and a high-quality user experience.
• Develop, test, monitor, and maintain critical integrations and infrastructure.
• Design and support robust internal and external APIs with high throughput and low latency requirements.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Data teams to deliver technical solutions aligned with user and business goals.
• Participate in code reviews, share knowledge with teammates, and uphold engineering best practices across frontend and backend codebases.
• Drive projects from implementation to production deployment with a focus on quality, performance, and operational readiness.
• Contribute to ongoing improvements in system performance, observability, CI/CD workflows, and developer experience.
• Explore and help implement AI-powered capabilities within our systems and workflows, including agentic tools and intelligent automation.
• Support a collaborative, inclusive engineering culture through thoughtful communication and continuous improvement.

Key Competencies:

• Full Stack Development: Experience building end-to-end features spanning frontend, backend, and APIs.
• AI Fluency: Familiarity with AI tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT) or contributing to AI-powered systems is a plus.
• Backend Development: Proficiency in building reliable backend systems using Golang (or Python, Ruby, Java, C++, C#, Rust, Scala, etc.).
• Frontend Development: Strong experience with React and familiarity building production web applications.
• Mobile Development: Experience with React Native or native mobile development concepts, with an understanding of performance and platform constraints.
• System Design: Experience developing distributed systems with a focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• API Development: Capable of designing and maintaining well-structured internal and external APIs.
• Working Familiarity With: OIDC Authentication (Google, Apple SSO), e-commerce fraud prevention, and payment service provider integrations (e.g., Stripe).
• Cloud Infrastructure: Familiarity with AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Event-Driven Systems: Experience working with messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar.
• Databases: Solid experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL technologies (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB).
• Team Collaboration: Works effectively with cross-functional partners and shares knowledge through code reviews and discussion.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: 5+ years in software engineering.

Nice to Have Qualifications: 

What We can Offer:

• Flexible PTO
• Competitive salary & equity package
• Monthly Gametime credits for any event ($1,200/yr)
• Medical, dental, & vision insurance
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Diverse Family-forming benefits through Carrot Fertility
• 401k, HSA, pre-tax savings programs
• Company off-sites and meet-ups
• Wellness programs
• Tenure recognition

Job Summary

Engineering at Gametime

You will be a key contributor to the Engineering team responsible for building and maintaining the client-side applications and backend systems that power the Gametime experience for millions of users. We empower engineers to take full ownership of their code and foster a culture grounded in testing, code reviews, observability, experimentation, and operational excellence. At Gametime, we value collaboration, inclusivity, and the strength of diverse perspectives — creating an environment where people love to build together.

We are also investing deeply in the future of AI. This includes building internal tools and workflows powered by AI, incorporating agentic systems into our backend architecture, and preparing our marketplace and infrastructure to be AI-ready. Engineers are encouraged to explore and adopt AI capabilities in their development process, and those who contribute to advancing AI adoption within our stack will play a key role in shaping that evolution.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Staff Mobile Engineer to join the Gametime Engineering team. This role is responsible for guiding the mobile technology that powers our flagship product — experienced by more than 1 million users every week. This is a senior individual contributor (IC5) position for engineers who are domain experts, lead complex initiatives across teams, and raise the technical bar through mentorship and architectural influence. You will collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, Design, Data, and business stakeholders to shape the future of our platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term technical vision and architecture for Gametime's mobile platform across iOS and Android via React Native.
• Explore, evaluate, and champion AI-powered capabilities within the mobile development workflow — including agentic coding tools, on-device intelligence, and AI-driven personalization features.
• Own the end-to-end technical strategy for the mobile app, from architecture patterns and platform infrastructure to performance and release engineering.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning mobile, backend, product, design, and data teams, ensuring alignment on priorities and execution.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards for code quality, testing, observability, and mobile-specific best practices across the org.
• Mentor and uplift engineers at all levels through code reviews, architectural guidance, and technical thought leadership.
• Drive mobile app performance, reliability, and release quality — including CI/CD pipelines, crash monitoring, and progressive rollout strategies.
• Partner with Product and Design to shape the mobile roadmap, translating business goals into technically sound solutions.
• Identify and eliminate platform-level bottlenecks that slow down team velocity or degrade user experience.
• Promote a high-performing, inclusive engineering culture through tech talks, documentation, and engineering excellence.

Key Competencies

Technical Skills

• React Native Mastery: Deep, production-proven expertise in React Native, including the New Architecture (Fabric/TurboModules), bridging native modules, and cross-platform parity strategies.
• AI Tooling & Integration: Experienced leveraging AI for code generation and evangelizing best practices for integrating it into the development workflow. Familiar with shipping AI/ML-powered features in mobile apps — on-device models, LLM-backed experiences, and recommendation systems.
• Mobile Platform Expertise: Strong understanding of both iOS (Swift/Objective-C) and Android (Kotlin/Java) native layers — comfortable diving into native code when React Native abstractions aren't sufficient.
• TypeScript: Expert-level TypeScript usage for type safety, scalability, and maintainable codebases across large mobile teams.
• State Management & Architecture: Deep experience with scalable state management patterns (Redux, Zustand, Jotai, or equivalent) and mobile-specific architectural patterns (clean architecture, modular monorepos, etc.).
• Performance Engineering: Expert at diagnosing and resolving React Native and native performance bottlenecks — JS thread, UI thread, bridge overhead, memory, startup time, and render optimization.
• Mobile Observability: Strong command of mobile crash reporting, performance monitoring, and analytics tooling (e.g., Firebase, Datadog, Sentry, Amplitude).
• App Distribution & Release Engineering: Deep knowledge of App Store and Google Play release processes, phased rollouts, feature flags, and OTA update strategies (e.g., EAS Update). Experienced designing mobile CI/CD pipelines using tools like Bitrise, GitHub Actions, and Fastlane.
• Testing: Strong culture of testing — unit, integration, and end-to-end testing for mobile using tools like Jest, Detox, or Maestro.
• Cloud & API Integration: Proficient with RESTful and GraphQL API design and consumption patterns, and cloud infrastructure as it relates to mobile backends (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

Leadership & Collaboration

• Technical Vision: Defines technical direction for the mobile platform with clarity, conviction, and organizational buy-in.
• Domain Expertise/Ownership: Deep understanding of the mobile product surface area with the ability to lead initiatives from concept through production at scale.
• Org-Wide Influence: Shapes engineering practices, architectural decisions, and tooling choices that extend beyond the mobile team to the broader engineering organization.
• Mentorship: Actively mentors engineers and uplifts team performance through coaching, feedback, and hands-on pairing.
• Project Leadership: Independently manages the full lifecycle of complex, multi-team projects with competing priorities and stakeholders.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Trusted partner to Product, Design, Data, and Engineering peers — able to translate technical constraints into business context and vice versa.
• Strategic Influence: Helps shape technical direction, roadmap priorities, and engineering best practices at the organizational level.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Experience: 10+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling production mobile applications, including significant time in React Native.

Nice to Have:

• Experience evolving mobile architectures toward a micro frontend model, enabling modular, independently deployable features that scale with growing teams and product complexity

What We can Offer:

• Flexible PTO

• Competitive salary & equity package

• Monthly Gametime credits for any event ($1,200/yr)

• Medical, dental, & vision insurance

• Life insurance and disability benefits

• Diverse Family-forming benefits through Carrot Fertility

• 401k, HSA, pre-tax savings programs

• Company off-sites and meet-ups

• Wellness programs

• Tenure recognition