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

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Data Scientist to join our team, a cross-functional group supporting all aspects of Gametime. In this role, you will collaborate closely with the User Acquisition team to optimize Paid Social campaign performance across channels like Meta, TikTok, and Reddit through rigorous experimentation and advanced mobile measurement. This includes driving creative and spend efficiency, analyzing channel efficiency dynamics (IPM and CPM), and maximizing signal quality via SKAdNetwork (SKAN).

You will play a key role in studying mobile cohorts to identify high-value opportunities across leagues and performers, working towards maximizing Customer Lifetime Value (LTV) and sustainable growth. By supporting the marketing team and optimizing the full user journey, you will have a direct impact on the success of the company.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with mobile marketing and privacy-compliant measurement in a marketplace setting, and can thrive in a fast-paced, proactive, and dynamic environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Mobile Measurement: Own the technical frameworks for tracking marketing effectiveness in a privacy-first world. You will configure and optimize SKAdNetwork conversion value schemas to extract maximum signal from iOS campaigns, bridging the gap between platform data and internal truth.
• Reporting & Visualization: Own the end-to-end design and maintenance of marketing analytics dashboards in our BI tools (Sigma/Tableau). You will serve as the single source of truth for reporting, ensuring stakeholders have accurate, real-time visibility into performance.
• Campaign and Creative Performance: Conduct granular analysis on campaigns and creative performance, specifically monitoring Install Per Mille (IPM) and Cost Per Mille (CPM). You will provide data-driven recommendations to optimize the marketing spend portfolio across many leagues, performances, and creative types. 
• Cohort Analytics: Deeply analyze mobile user cohorts to understand retention and monetization behaviors. You will identify efficiency trends across specific leagues, teams, and performers, guiding budget allocation to capitalize on high-intent users.
• Financial Modeling & Incrementality: Collaborate with marketing and finance team members to understand channel incrementality (lift) through measurement and experimentation, and inform financial scenario planning and target setting.
• Competitive Advantage: Stay informed on the evolving mobile privacy landscape (Apple ATT) to help maintain data science as a competitive advantage for the company.

Key Competencies

Technical Skills

• Mobile Marketing Expertise: Deep understanding of Mobile Measurement Partners (MMPs), SKAdNetwork, and the optimization algorithms of paid social platforms (Meta, TikTok).
• Programming and Tooling: Proficient in Python/R and SQL for data analysis, predictive modeling, and optimization workflows.
• Statistical Analysis: Strong foundation in statistics, with experience in experimentation and incrementality measurement.
• Business Intelligence: Experience working with business intelligence data visualization software, such as Tableau or Sigma.

Interpersonal Skills

• Collaboration: Ability to work cross-functionally with teams in marketing, supply, finance, product, and fan happiness to achieve business goals.
• Communication: Clear and concise communication skills to present technical insights (like attribution nuances) to stakeholders, ensuring alignment on strategy.

Problem-Solving and Decision-Making

• Critical Thinking: Demonstrates strong critical thinking and decision-making abilities, especially under pressure.
• Proactive: Proactive in identifying challenges—such as signal loss or creative fatigue—and implementing solutions. Embodies a proactive and “Always be Curious” mindset.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or related field.
• Experience: 5+ years of experience in marketing analytics or growth data science.
• Mobile-First Expertise: Prior experience in a mobile-first company with a deep understanding of SKAdNetwork (SKAN 4) and other privacy-compliant mobile measurement solutions is required.
• Tools: Expertise with SQL, Python/R, and Mobile Measurement Partners (Adjust, AppsFlyer, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Paid Social (Meta/TikTok) in a dynamic, high-growth marketplace environment.
• Experience with Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) or Incrementality testing.
• Experience in ticketing or live events is a strong plus.

Performance Metrics

• Efficiency Improvement: Improve blended CPI (Cost Per Install) across all channels by 10% at target spend within the first year.

User Quality Growth: Improve the Lifetime Value (LTV) of the new user install base by 10% within the first year.

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

The Role

As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead design for some of Gametime’s most impactful consumer experiences across onboarding, discovery, search, event exploration, and value deliberation.

This is a hands-on, senior individual contributor role for a designer who thrives in ambiguity, deeply understands customers, and can translate insight into both bold new concepts and incremental improvements that drive activation and conversion. You’ll work end-to-end—from defining problems to shipping and iterating solutions in production—while partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Data, and Research.

What You’ll Do

• Own and evolve core consumer journeys across onboarding, discovery, search, event exploration, and decision-making.
• Deeply understand our customers through qualitative research, quantitative data, and behavioral insights.
• Lead ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces, framing opportunities and defining experience direction from first principles.
• Design high-quality UI and UX, from early concepts and prototypes to polished, production-ready designs.
• Concept and validate new value propositions that help users more easily discover, evaluate, and choose events.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Data to bring ideas to life and ensure high-quality execution.
• Contribute to AI-enabled experiences—such as personalization, smarter discovery, or decision support—by shaping interaction models, user flows, and trust-building patterns, and by helping ship these features in production.
• Drive activation and conversion outcomes through experimentation, iteration, and close collaboration with growth and analytics partners.
• Use metrics and learning loops to evaluate impact and continuously improve the consumer experience.
• Raise the bar for craft and product thinking, influencing design quality beyond your immediate projects.
• Mentor and support other designers, contributing to a strong, thoughtful design culture.

What We’re Looking For

• 4+ years of product design experience, with meaningful ownership of consumer-facing products.
• Proven success designing for activation, conversion, and complex decision-making flows.
• Strong end-to-end design skills: research, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, and systems thinking.
• Experience shipping and iterating on data- or AI-informed product features in production, not just concept work.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering and data partners on technically complex products.
• Strong product judgment—balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
• Comfort working with experimentation, metrics, and iterative delivery.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional partners.

The Role

As a Staff Product Designer, you will lead design for some of Gametime’s most impactful consumer experiences across onboarding, discovery, search, event exploration, and value deliberation.

This is a hands-on, senior individual contributor role for a designer who thrives in ambiguity, deeply understands customers, and can translate insight into both bold new concepts and incremental improvements that drive activation and conversion. You’ll work end-to-end—from defining problems to shipping and iterating solutions in production—while partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Data, and Research.

What You’ll Do

• Own and evolve core consumer journeys across onboarding, discovery, search, event exploration, and decision-making.
• Deeply understand our customers through qualitative research, quantitative data, and behavioral insights.
• Lead ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces, framing opportunities and defining experience direction from first principles.
• Design high-quality UI and UX, from early concepts and prototypes to polished, production-ready designs.
• Concept and validate new value propositions that help users more easily discover, evaluate, and choose events.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Data to bring ideas to life and ensure high-quality execution.
• Contribute to AI-enabled experiences—such as personalization, smarter discovery, or decision support—by shaping interaction models, user flows, and trust-building patterns, and by helping ship these features in production.
• Drive activation and conversion outcomes through experimentation, iteration, and close collaboration with growth and analytics partners.
• Use metrics and learning loops to evaluate impact and continuously improve the consumer experience.
• Raise the bar for craft and product thinking, influencing design quality beyond your immediate projects.
• Mentor and support other designers, contributing to a strong, thoughtful design culture.

What We’re Looking For

• 6-10 years of product design experience, with meaningful ownership of consumer-facing products.
• Proven success designing for activation, conversion, and complex decision-making flows.
• Strong end-to-end design skills: research, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, and systems thinking.
• Experience shipping and iterating on data- or AI-informed product features in production, not just concept work.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering and data partners on technically complex products.
• Strong product judgment—balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
• Comfort working with experimentation, metrics, and iterative delivery.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional partners.

The Role

The Director of SEM will own Gametime’s paid search strategy end-to-end, driving performance, efficiency, and innovation across mobile and web. You will lead a high-performing team of SEM Managers, partner closely with Data Science/Analytics, Engineering, and SEO and collaborate across the broader Growth organization to define how SEM accelerates business growth.

This is both a strategic and operational leadership role, responsible for scaling one of Gametime’s largest acquisition channels while shaping the next generation of automation, measurement, and experimentation frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and Lead SEM Strategy: Own the vision, roadmap, and execution for Gametime’s global SEM program largely in Google Ads but also in Bing Search, and emerging platforms.
• Performance Leadership: Deliver growth and efficiency through advanced bidding, segmentation, and automation frameworks aligned with company revenue and margin goals.
• AI forward approach: strong curiosity and drive in exploring how different AI based solutions can drive improved relevancy and efficiency in paid search
• Experimentation & Innovation: Oversee structured SEM experimentation, building on Gametime’s strong testing culture to validate bidding, ad copy, landing page, and audience innovations.
• Scale & automation: Work with Data Science and Engineering to develop internal tools, automation pipelines, and performance dashboards that enhance decision-making.
• Google Partnership: Serve as Gametime’s primary liaison with Google to access betas, co-develop testing pilots, and inform product feedback loops.
• Team Development: Lead and mentor a team of SEM managers and analysts, fostering a culture of analytical rigor, curiosity, and operational excellence.
• Measurement & Insights: Partner with Analytics to refine attribution models, incrementality testing, and reporting frameworks that drive transparency and strategic clarity across channels.
• Collaboration Across Channels: Align SEM strategy with CRM, Paid Social, SEO, and Lifecycle teams to ensure an integrated acquisition strategy across the funnel.
  
  

Key Skills

• Deep understanding of Google Ads and SEM automation, including bid strategy optimization, audience layering, and advanced account architecture.
• Advanced analytical fluency, comfortable with SQL, large datasets, and advanced experimentation frameworks.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to translate data and experiments into high-impact business decisions.
• Proven ability to influence across marketing, analytics, product, and executive leadership.
  Excellent communication and leadership skills; able to motivate teams and articulate clear strategies.
• Passion for live events and the power of performance marketing to connect fans to experiences.
  
  

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in SEM, with at least 3 years in a leadership role managing teams and large-scale budgets.
• Proven record of scaling world class SEM programs to eight-figure spend while improving efficiency and ROI.
• Experience in large catalog based eCommerce businesses such as online travel, retail or live events 
• Experience managing experimentation and automation roadmaps in partnership with technical teams.
• Background in marketplaces, ticketing, or high-velocity e-commerce environments preferred.

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