Frontend development is a critical ingredient to our success. Come join our mission to create the future of entertainment. On this team, you will define not only an amazing web experience but help shape player experience and the game industry for years to come. You will ship a first of its kind game. You will empower the studio to craft a best-in-class experience for our players and provide a platform that keeps them engaged beyond the gameplay. You’ll be empowered and given autonomy. Your ideas will matter.

As a lead developer with at least 8 years of experience and a proven track record of shipping products, we're looking for a talented and passionate individual to join our team. We're on a mission to create the future of entertainment, and we need someone who can help us define an amazing web experience, shape player experience, and revolutionize the game industry for years to come.

The Job

• Work with us, in the studio to facilitate real-time in person design/developer collaboration to move quickly on solving deeply complex technical and experience problems as a thought leader.
• Build best in class user experiences using modern web development practices focusing on future technologies like in-browser 3D engines.
• Ensure the utilization of the appropriate web technologies to build user-friendly high-performance web applications.
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones (PWA solutions).
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications.
• Design, review, and implement web frameworks that deliver features to users.
• Perform performance analysis and security hardening of web applications and infrastructure.
• Providing input for production/live release control process.
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
• Be an advocate for both players and developers in crafting a best-in-class game experience.
• Provide thought leadership on tools interface solutions that push the boundaries of the technology and team alike.
• Using your strong communication skills to collaborate across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Communicate technical risks across the group.

Who Will Be A Great Fit

We welcome uniqueness and diversity on our team, as we believe that diverse teams do the best work. Our customers are all over the world, and from all walks of life. We're looking for someone with a passion for building and maintaining consumer-facing web applications that are secure, scalable, and highly available.

• 8+ years of experience in architecting and delivering innovative web projects.
• Passion for building and maintaining consumer-facing web applications that are secure, scalable, and highly available.
• Deep knowledge of JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React.
• Experience with cloud technologies, preferably AWS cloud services.
• Experience with database systems, both relational and NoSQL database.
• Proficiency with server-side languages such as Python, Ruby, Java, PHP, and .Net.
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle, and MongoDB.
• Deep understanding of common user interface concepts like layout, text, event-driven programming, and control widgets.
• Experience building programmatic motion and design systems to enable ‘build once and use anywhere’ game development.
• Experience working with localization/internationalization systems and dealing with related issues.
• Commitment to personal and peer development and sharing best practices.
• Passionate about building tools, systems, and process to change the player experience between web and game.
• Understand how critical the distance from concept to screen is and strive to reduce the length whenever possible.
• Enable the design and game teams through tooling, systems, and process to ensure a cohesive player experience both in and out of game.
• Driven by crafting quality in the customer experience and participating in not just the engineering discussions, but all discussions where your unique perspective can have an impact.
• A drive to jump in with both hands to create unique solutions.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Web3 principles, patterns, and architecture.
• Office365 and Google Suite proficiency.
• A mindset of continuous improvement; humble and ambitious.
• Prior experience in a startup environment or small business.
• Adaptable, with a good sense of humor.

Additional Information:

The base salary range for this full-time position is $100,000 - $180,000 + stocks + tokens + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Employment Type: Full-time, On-Site, Not open to remote candidates at this time

Seniority Level: Senior-Level

Industry: Video Games, Blockchain, Social, UX, UI

Job Functions: UI Development, Web Development, Front End Development, Design Systems, Animation systems, Tools Development, Communication

The Fine Print

At Shrapnel we prefer working in-office, together. We believe working in the same space can accelerate progress, improve collaboration, and is definitely more fun. But in-office work doesn't make sense for everyone at this time, and technology makes certain remote work possible. So for certain roles we are open to discussing remote work. Please apply and we’ll decide case by case.

NEON Machine Inc and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.