Senior Fullstack Engineer

Jam.gg is a social and low tech-friendly cloud gaming platform. It has been designed to be accessible to everyone: available directly from a web browser, it does not require a high-speed internet connection to provide a seamless multiplayer game experience. Jam.gg is all about bringing people together through games, with a touch of childhood playfulness and creativity.

We are led by an experienced team of ex Google, Twitter, Amazon, Docker, EA, King and other top tech companies. Jam.gg is a YCombinator company and backed by top VC firms and LEGO Ventures and has already established itself as a new go-to platform for cloud gaming in some countries. 

We're at the stage where we're scaling our Engineeering Department as one of our key units. This is an incredible opportunity to join a booming company of 60+ people in its hyper 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 are looking for a talented Senior Fullstack Engineer  to join our growing Engineering team.

Start date: As soon as possible

Location: Full remote. The candidate must be in Europe for time zone reasons.

Type of contract : Fixed term or non-fixed term depending on the candidate

What you will be doing:

• The role involves interfacing with design, implementing features, and being a strong advocate for the user.
• You will be working with an engineering manager and reporting to him.

What we are looking for:

Requirements for the role include:

• Minimum of 4 years experience as a Fullstack Software Engineer
• Obsession for building and shipping amazing user experiences
• Experience feature development in close collaboration with design
• Expert knowledge of JavaScript Proficiency with React and Redux
• Solid understanding of the JavaScript/TypeScript and web application ecosystem
• Working knowledge of TypeScript
• Working knowledge of Storybook
• Working knowledge of Golang (this is what we use in the backend)
• Familiarity with test-driven development (Jest, Cypress, etc)
• 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):

• Previous remote-work experience
• Previous startup/growth-stage experience
• Prior experience building web services using NodeJS
• Google's Firebase, particularly Firestore, NoSQL
• General AWS and GCP experience

Benefits:

For International and French permanent contracts:

• Unlimited holiday leave (minimum 5 weeks).
• Monthly well-being allowance (mental well-being, sports, massage, etc.).
• Home office allowance calculated monthly on the prorata of the days worked.
• Fully remote & flexible working hours.
• Equal pay policy.
• Equal maternity, paternity and adoption leave (18 weeks) with 1 year seniority and after deduction of the maternity and paternity leave regulations in your country. 
• Maternity/Paternity/Adoption subsidy of 3k euros with 1 year seniority.
  
• Stock option plan.
• Health insurance compensation on a one-to-one basis, depending on geographical location & company's policy.
• Additional benefits depending on the geographical location.

For international and French fixed-term contracts :

• 5 weeks of holiday per year (2.08 days per month) 
• Monthly well-being allowance (mental well-being, sports, massage, etc.).
• Home office allowance calculated monthly on the prorata of the days worked. 
• Fully remote & flexible working hours.
• Equal pay policy.
• Health insurance compensation on a one-to-one basis, depending on geographical location & company's policy.
• Additional benefits depending on the geographical location

Why Jam.gg?

At the heart of Jam.gg’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 gamers and for developers, opening new ways to interact with their community.

Our startup has been growing very quickly since the end of 2020, attracting more than 60 international 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 Arc System Works, Interplay, Team 17, Coatsink and Data East. Our portfolio is rapidly evolving, with more than 25 free modern party titles arriving on the platform this year, from Overcooked to Blasphemous! 

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. Our last round was led by LEGO Ventures and top gaming VC firms.