Fullstack Developer

Piepacker

Remote Fullstack Developer

Candidate should be ready to work on European Time Zones

Piepacker is a cloud social gaming platform. We recreate the feeling of playing old school console and arcade games in your living room, but now online and with friends. Our platform adds a new social dynamic to the experience through video chat, snapchat’s style 3D filters and new game modes like battle royale.

At Piepacker, we challenge ourselves daily to build a beautiful, slick platform that is dead simple to use, deliver top notch gaming quality and all around a great social experience. From game-changing user interfaces to the latest in cloud gaming engineering, we use powerful new technologies coupled with world-class design to deliver evolved solutions.

We are led by an experienced team of ex Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon, Docker, EA, and other top tech companies. Piepacker is a YCombinator company and backed by top VC firms.

As we scale, we are putting together a team of creative, strategic, and user-driven engineers that share in our belief that social gaming can be fast, fluid, beautiful, and delightful to use. This is an incredible opportunity to join a booming company in its growth phase. Driven by a strong inclusive culture, we welcome self starting, fast learning, talented people wishing to start and manage unique, and challenging projects where collaboration (internal and external) is everything.

We’re looking for a talented full stack engineer who is highly technical, creative, and extremely user focused.

What you will be doing

The role involves interfacing with design, implementing features, and being a strong advocate for the user. Given our backend is in Golang and our frontend is in Javascript (Typescript), you'll have to be comfortable moving from one to the other.

Requirements for the role

  • 2 years experience as a full stack developer
  • Obsession for building and shipping amazing products
  • Experience feature development in close collaboration with design and a backend team
  • Familiarity with React
  • Familiarity with Golang
  • Solid understanding of the JavaScript and web application ecosystem. - Note: if you do not have react/golang knowledge (maybe you're familiar with another full stack ecosystem, node, java, php, ruby, etc…) but you're willing to learn react and golang, apply anyways! We always look for smart individuals who are ready to learn and move out of their comfort zone.
  • Familiarity with Git and GitHub
  • Passion for shaping and scaling an early stage, user-first application
  • Self-motivation: highly autonomous & working capabilities.
  • Communication & Teamwork: excellent communication and organization skills, team spirit, proactivity.
  • Good spoken and written communication skills (English)

Experience that would be great for you to have (or you'd be excited about acquiring)

  • Working knowledge of TypeScript
  • Experience with Kubernetes
  • Experience with Websockets.
  • Previous remote-work experience
  • Previous startup/growth-stage experience
  • Google's Firebase, particularly Firestore, NoSQL
  • Google's GCP Suite including Google Endpoints

Benefits

  • Unlimited vacations (minimum 5 weeks)
  • Monthly well-being allowance (mental help, sport, massage, etc.)
  • Home office allowance
  • Fully remote & Flexible working hours
  • Equal pay policy
  • Equal maternity and paternity leave (18 weeks)
  • Maternity/Paternity grant of 3k euros (in Europe)
  • Stock option plan
  • Health insurance compensation a one-to-one basis, depending on geographical location & company's policy.
  • Extra benefits depending on the geographical location.

Salary according to experience.

Piepacker is an equal opportunity employer and we proudly value and promote diversity in our team. We do not discriminate on the basis of ethnicity, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, World of Warcraft faction or disability status.

  • Starting date: As soon as possible
  • Location : Full remote. Europe time zones are recommended.

We are very happy you applied and we do wish you good luck. Looking forward to (hopefully) meeting you and chatting about games :) !

Why Piepacker?

At the heart of Piepacker’s mission is the creation of a new way to share games with friends and family: a free online place for gamers to play and hangout together, with video cameras, bringing back the golden era of multiplayer couch gaming. In a world of constraining internet connections and paid services, we think differently: we are building a free, “low-tech” friendly platform for everyone to jump in, directly from their browser. Our platform is social by design and packed with fun games curated by our community. We want to create new virtual social spaces that fundamentally diverge from today's typical social networks, focusing a lot less on appearance and a lot more on experience. We are building a social gaming platform for all gamers who enjoy playing together.

Our startup has been growing very quickly since the end of 2020, attracting more than 40 gaming talents from developers and social media experts to designers. In June 2021, we introduced our cloud gaming beta platform featuring 80+ licensed games, including titles from industry-renowned publishers such as Codemasters, Interplay, Team 17, and Data East. Discovered and supported by Y Combinator (Twitch, Reddit, Stripe, etc), our board of advisors include former SEGA CEO Kenji Matsubara, Zynga co-founders Justin Waldron, and Tom Bollich, Crunchyroll’s Kun Gao, and Humble Bundle’s Jeffrey Rosen.

With almost half a million users who have joined us so far, our teams are prepping for our next chapter and are on the lookout for talented and motivated folks who share our passion for gaming and want to make a real impact while embracing a true startup spirit (autonomy, transparency, user-centric).

Piepacker is an equal opportunity employer and we proudly value and promote diversity in our team. We do not discriminate on the basis of ethnicity, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, World of Warcraft faction or disability status.

More info here on our mission, culture and team!

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