Staff Software Engineer (Player Experience)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (Player Experience): Designing, building, and maintaining features to connect users through gaming on a platform across desktop and mobile with an accent on enhancing user interactions and community engagement. Focus on building innovative features for new friendships and improving ranking/discovery systems within the gaming ecosystem.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Salary: $248,000–$279,000

Company

hirify.global is a multiplatform social platform focused on enhancing friendships and shared interests around games.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain features for user connection through gaming on desktop and mobile.
• Engage with developers and partners to enrich player experiences.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Engineers, Designers, Product Owners, Data Scientists) to build engaging experiences.
• Partner with Content, Marketing, and ML teams to improve ranking and discovery systems.
• Build innovative features to foster new friendships and deepen existing ones.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Experience with React/TS, Python, or other modern programming languages.
• Track record of shipping incremental and delightful features that improve user experience.
• Comfortable switching between and learning new technical stacks.
• Enjoys collaborating with product, design, and other stakeholders.
• Takes a holistic approach to problem-solving.
• Experience leading projects, gathering requirements, supporting partners, and mentoring others.
• Must be a hirify.global user and want to improve the product.

Nice to have

• Experience working on a mobile native stack (iOS / Obj-C / Swift, Android / Java, Kotlin).
• Experience integrating or deploying on Steam or similar platforms.
• Experience using Epic Games Online Services, Steamworks API, Playfab.

Culture & Benefits

• Engineering culture values collaboration and building great teams.
• Focus on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.
• Committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process.