Gamer's Choice

Gamer's Choice

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Long Island City, NY · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$120k-$150kDetected 20 days ago
ReactNode.jsExpressFull-Stack DevelopmentGitSQLiteLogisticsShopifyLeadershipCollaborationPlain Language

About the role

  • Gamer's Choice is a team of passionate gamers, creators, and innovators based in Queens, New York.
  • What began as a small local shop has grown into one of the leading destinations for Trading Card Game players and collectors around the world.
  • While Yu-Gi-Oh! has always been our foundation, we're expanding into exciting new titles like Pokémon, One Piece, Riftbound, and Disney Lorcana.

Responsibilities

  • Platform Ownership Serve as the sole owner and architect of the internal software, a Node/Express backend, React frontend, and SQLite database that supports every core operational workflow at Gamers Choice.
  • Maintain system stability, security, and resilience, including authentication and authorization, database safety, backups, migrations, and incident response.
  • Establish and maintain instrumentation, logging, and reporting so operations leadership has clear visibility into key performance metrics.
  • Feature Development Design, build, and ship new features that directly improve revenue, including break configuration, promotional flows, and upsell experiences.
  • Build operational efficiency features for picking, packing, tasking, and footage retrieval workflows.
  • Maintain clear documentation of architecture, critical workflows, auth models, and database safety practices.
  • Establish runbooks and operational guides that enable other team members to perform common diagnostics and basic changes independently over time.
  • Within the first 90 days, the Software Developer is expected to: Days 1-60 Implement monitoring, logging, and a simple dashboard or views for 3-5 core KPIs, such as mispick rate, orders picked per labor hour, time from order to "ready to ship," and incident count.
  • Test and fully document a backup and restore process for the production database, with a clear step-by-step runbook.
  • Within 12 months, at least one additional team member should be able to perform common diagnostics and basic changes independently using those documents, without requiring your direct involvement.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of professional full-stack development experience with Node/Express and React, building production web applications.
  • Qualifications At least 5 years of professional full-stack development experience with Node/Express and React, building production web applications.

Compensation

  • $120,000 - $150,000 per annum Role Gamers Choice is seeking a skilled and self-directed Senior Full-Stack Engineer to take full ownership of our core internal platform that supports our live stream and warehouse operations.
  • This is a hands-on, high-impact engineering role embedded in a fast-moving operations environment.
  • This role is designed for a seasoned full-stack engineer who thrives at the intersection of software and operations.
  • You are most likely to succeed in this role if you: Have built and owned internal tools that directly support logistics, warehouse, or e-commerce operations.
  • Are comfortable being the primary engineer on a complex, business-critical system, and accountable for its stability, security, and evolution.
  • Can translate ambiguous, real-world operational pain points into scoped, shipped features on a weekly cadence.

Benefits

  • This role is an opportunity to have a real, measurable impact, to take a system that is critical to a fast-growing operation and make it more stable, more capable, and more scalable, on a timeline that matters.

Company info

  • We're driven by a shared love for gaming and community, offering both an engaging online experience and a vibrant in-store atmosphere.
  • Our mission is to be the ultimate home for fans to connect, compete, and celebrate the games they love.
  • Our Long Island City store serves as the heart of our community, hosting tournaments, events, and gatherings that bring players together both in person and online.
  • We are at a pivotal point.
  • Demonstrated experience using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot) as a core part of your workflow to ship faster, with concrete examples of how you verify and refactor AI-generated code.
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