Staff Software Engineer (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (Gamedev): Building a storefront for game developers to sell directly to their players in hirify.global with an accent on cross-platform purchase flows, social gifting experiences, and commerce surfaces. Focus on collaborating with product, design, and game developers to improve the tools and design shared commerce primitives.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area or Remote (U.S.)

Salary: $248,000 to $279,000 + equity + benefits

Company

hirify.global is a multiplatform platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests.

What you will do

• Building cross-platform purchase flows, social gifting experiences, and commerce surfaces that meet users where they already are.
• Owning projects end-to-end: scoping, designing, building, shipping, and iterating based on experiment results.
• Working directly with game studio partners to understand their needs, answer technical questions, and improve the tools we build for them.
• Collaborating closely with product, design, and game developers to cut through ambiguity on a product where the playbook is still being written.
• Partnering with other product teams to design shared commerce primitives that work across hirify.global.
• Raising the bar for the engineers around you through code review, technical design input, and leading by example on quality and ownership.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer, including experience leading cross-functional projects as an individual contributor.
• Strong expertise in at least a couple of the major parts of our stack: Python, TypeScript/React, and mobile with React Native.
• A product sense that goes beyond implementation.
• Comfort with ambiguity and experimentation.
• A bias toward solving problems from first principles.

Nice to have

• Extensive experience with React Native for mobile development.
• Experience with game development or game platform ecosystems.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure) for production backend systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests.
• Committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process.