Weekend

Weekend

Senior Software Engineer, HUB

San Francisco · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 27 days ago
TypeScriptC++ReactNode.jsBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentCode ReviewGitKubernetesCI/CDA/B TestingUnityUnreal Engine

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

  • Partner closely with Product to refine requirements, write technical specs, and deliver features from concept to launch.
  • Collaborate with Design to create delightful, intuitive experiences for users across TV, mobile, and web platforms.
  • Own features end-to-end, including the backend services they depend on, with a primary focus on the user-facing layer.
  • Use data to validate what you ship, measure impact, and inform what to build next
  • Contribute to code reviews and maintain a high standard of code quality, architecture, and performance.
  • You've worked directly with Product and Design partners, not just received specs to implement.
  • We offer visa support for eligible candidates, making relocating for the job smoother and more streamlined.

Requirements

  • Experience with analytics and experimentation platforms (Amplitude, Segment, Statsig, LaunchDarkly).
  • You have 6+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent on user-facing products.
  • You have strong TypeScript and React skills and have shipped production-grade frontend work you're proud of.

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), 16 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.
  • The Hub team owns Weekend's bundled gaming experience, the first thing users see across all TV platforms.
  • We build and maintain the features that shape how players discover, adopt, and stick with our games, from the core product experience to growth experiments that move business metrics.
  • This is a front-end-leaning full-stack role.
  • You'll spend most of your time building user-facing features in TypeScript and React, working closely with Product and Design to shape what gets built and how.

Visa & Work Authorization

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

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