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You take pride in the fact that your code will be used by millions and millions of people!\nLeading projects through the whole life cycle: scoping, designing, building, shipping, and iterating based on experiment results.\nWorking directly with game studio partners to understand their needs, answer technical questions, and improve the tools we build for them.\nCollaborating closely with product, design, and game developers to cut through ambiguity on a product where the playbook is still being written.\nWorking with product managers, designers, and partner managers to cut through ambiguity and find the way forward.\nUsing your attention to detail to continually raise the quality bar of the software we write.\nWhat you should have:\n5+ years experience as a software engineer.\n2+ years of professional experience with Typescript/React.\nExpertise with at least a couple parts of our tech stack: Python, Typescript/React, Elixir, Rust being the main areas. You are comfortable switching across stacks or learning new ones.\nYou have a sense for product and design. We don’t operate in silos, and you’ll be collaborating closely with cross-functional peers. You should be able to express opinions and collaborate to make something great.\nComfort with ambiguity and experimentation. This team ships A/B tests, reads results, and changes direction. You should be someone who thrives in that environment rather than waiting for a fully-baked spec.\nYou actively leverage AI coding tools to accelerate your productivity.\n[Optional] Bonus Points\nExperience with game development.\nExperience with mobile development.\nExperience leveraging a cloud platform (GCP, Amazon, or Azure) to serve as the backend infrastructure for a product.\nThe US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. 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