Head of Engineering

This position is remote and available to residents of the United States

Playback Rewards is seeking a Head of Engineering at the director or senior manager level to join our startup team and help build a powerful, scalable video game rewards platform. In this role, you’ll lead a team of developers while contributing to code and will guide design and architecture decisions.

Key responsibilities

• Lead strategy and architecture development for our React/Typescript/Node.js code base, taking our product from its current early stage to full production and scaling to millions of users
• Collaborate on fast-iterating delivery of feature requirements, bridging development with product, design, and analytics teams
• Make impactful hands-on code contributions across our full stack
• Manage and growing our development team (currently 2 senior contributors) and an external dev partner, supporting a strong startup development culture
• Implement CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes, ensuring rapid and reliable delivery of code to production
• Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to team members and ensuring code quality and consistency.
• Identify opportunities to enhance our technology and innovate

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in professional web application development
• 2+ years of direct people management experience (additionally, experience managing external development resources) in a startup environment
• Extensive experience developing and deploying public-facing React applications to mobile production environments
• Extensive experience in developing and architecting scalable backend systems using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Experience architecting systems that utilize real-time data streaming and messaging
• Experience with architecting and deploying complex cloud solutions on GCP, Azure, AWS, and/or Firebase
• Experience in supporting and leading teams in Agile methodologies and technologies
• Strong understanding of API development and integrations

Your also bring to the table:

• A builder/doer mentality
• Focus on supporting and serving business goals
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with an orientation toward communication and teamwork
• An understanding of the tradeoffs and process needed in an early-stage company to quickly move a product from early stage to production

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent foundational technical experience)
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or Firestore
• Experience with CSS, animation frameworks, and responsive design

Who We Are:

Playback Rewards is building a loyalty rewards program and game discoverability platform for gamers. We are a remote first company headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. You’ll join a passionate, early-stage team of industry veterans who are looking to make a big impact in the global video games industry.
We have a supportive and flexible work environment where we hold ourselves and each other to a high standard. Everyone is empowered with a high degree of autonomy, responsibility, and trust. We move fast, embrace change and the unknown, and are always learning and improving. We are product and player-focused and are all willing to dive in and get our hands dirty in order to build the best product possible and achieve success.

We offer a competitive salary range of $140k-$180k annually; 4 weeks of flexible paid time off and company holidays; comprehensive health, dental, vision insurance (all 50% company paid); and a 401k plan (with 4% company match).