Weekend

Weekend

Senior Software Engineer, Platform

San Francisco · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 33 days ago
TypeScriptGoReactNode.jsBackend DevelopmentSQLAWSKubernetesLLMs

About the role

  • Our games attract millions of users every month, with family favorites like Jeopardy!, Song Quiz, CoComelon: Sing and Play with JJ, and Wheel of Fortune.
  • We believe voice interfaces will become the main way people access entertainment in their living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, and cars.
  • The founders went through Y Combinator in 2018 and landed a spot on the 2022 YC Top Companies List.

Responsibilities

  • Expand Weekend's footprint to additional TV and console platforms, building and maintaining the platform-specific integrations each one requires
  • Partner with game engineering teams to scope cross-cutting capabilities such as social features and identity, translating shared needs into reusable platform services and delivering them end to end
  • Develop and enhance the team's agent harness, extending its capabilities to debug issues, handle platform support requests, and investigate incidents autonomously
  • Expand subscription systems to support additional payment providers as well as TV-platform account and billing systems
  • Build features that ensure a consistent customer experience across all of Weekend's games, such as social features and leaderboards
  • Serve as a reliable on-call partner for the team's broad platform support scope
  • Experience building foundational infrastructure that multiple products depend on - identity/auth, payments, subscriptions, shared APIs, or similar
  • Comfort serving as the primary technical contact for product and design partners: scoping cross-cutting work, pushing back on scope creep, and surfacing 80/20 opportunities
  • Deep sense of ownership across the full software development lifecycle - from requirements through production support
  • Ability to develop a strategy or plan for solving a problem without much direction, execute flawlessly, and build repeatable processes

Requirements

  • 5-8 years of software engineering experience, with a strong track record owning backend or platform services
  • Background building internal developer tooling or improving developer experience with a bias toward automation

Skills

  • The final offer amount may depend on experience, education, skills, and location.
  • Weekend is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.
  • If any reasonable accommodation is needed, please reach out to your hiring contact.

Compensation

  • Base pay is one part of the total package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work.

Benefits

  • Your medical, dental, and vision insurance is 100% covered by Weekend, for yourself and all dependents and we match 401k!
  • We offer unlimited paid time off (enforced 2-week minimum), 14 paid holidays, 40 hours of bereavement leave, and unlimited sick days.
  • Our generous parental leave policy includes 24 weeks at 100% pay for birthing parents and 12 weeks at 100% pay for non-birthing parents.
  • A full breakdown of our benefits is here https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQTxulbgcRPV6OPHv2mj4X-RYAo9eKk4KQwNZYRJDpBsBHXbMpwCOBvploBJxW3zUZJm36-YU4TXoYK/pub!
  • For Pay Transparency: The final offer amount may depend on experience, education, skills, and location.

Company info

  • Weekend https://www.weekend.com/ is the leading developer of voice AI games for smart TVs. Our games attract millions of users every month, with family favorites like Jeopardy!, Song Quiz, CoComelon: Sing and Play with JJ, and Wheel of Fortune.
  • We believe voice interfaces will become the main way people access entertainment in their living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, and cars. We're building a bundled subscription product similar to Netflix or Spotify for the emerging category of "AI-powered games."
  • Weekend was founded by Max Child and James Wilsterman in 2024. The founders went through Y Combinator in 2018 and landed a spot on the 2022 YC Top Companies List. We're a quickly-growing team headquartered in Union Square, San Francisco.
  • Weekend https://www.weekend.com/ is the leading developer of voice AI games for smart TVs.
  • We're building a bundled subscription product similar to Netflix or Spotify for the emerging category of "AI-powered games."
  • Weekend was founded by Max Child and James Wilsterman in 2024.
  • We're a quickly-growing team headquartered in Union Square, San Francisco.
  • Weekend is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform Team - the team that owns the foundational backend services powering all of Weekend's AI-powered games.
  • You'll work on identity management, payment systems, leaderboards, party systems, controller integrations, and developer tooling.
  • You'll also help bring Weekend to new platforms like TVs and consoles, and contribute to the agent harnesses we're building to autonomously develop new platform features.
  • This is a high-ownership, high-impact IC role at a time when the team needs to move fast across a broad scope.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • We offer visa support for eligible candidates, making relocating for the job smoother and more streamlined.
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