Full-Stack Product Developer
About this role
Colonist is seeking a Full-Stack Product Developer to significantly enhance game modes and features, delivering exceptional player experiences for its 5M+ yearly active players. In this high-ownership, fully remote role, you will oversee the full development of game interfaces, ensuring seamless UI/UX, high code quality, performance, and stability across platforms. Your technical expertise and player-focused mindset will directly shape how millions engage with Colonist's digital board games.
What you'll do
- Evolve game architecture, ensuring cleaner code boundaries and better scalability.
- Architect multi-platform systems to enable consistent features across titles.
- Scale the codebase to support multiple game titles while maintaining performance and developer velocity.
- Own full-stack development from backend logic to polished UI.
- Balance technical complexity and product value, prioritizing work that brings the biggest impact to players.
- Review pull requests and mentor peers to ensure code quality, maintainability, and strong architectural foundations.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn concepts into highly engaging and intuitive player experiences.
- Identify and optimize performance bottlenecks, ensuring gameplay feels smooth under heavy load.
- Continuously improve tools and workflows using automation, testing, and CI/CD for faster iteration.
What Colonist is looking for
- Deep experience with Node.js and modern full-stack development.
- Proficiency in React, TypeScript, CSS, and building high-performance UIs.
- Strong grasp of Git, code reviews, and collaborative workflows.
- Proven ability to design and maintain scalable architectures.
- Solid understanding of game systems, patterns, and how to keep them fun and stable.
- Experience with relational databases and REST APIs.
- Excellent written communication skills, capable of explaining complex ideas clearly in async settings.
- Passion for board games, both as a player and a developer.
- Familiarity with multi-platform game development.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing workflows.
- Background in consumer-facing products with large active user bases.
Company at a glance
What happens next
Skip the application pile. I get you in front of the people who decide.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
When the company wants to meet, I get the call on your calendar. You just show up.
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