Seeking a Senior Full-Stack Product Developer to build and ship user-facing features end-to-end for a global online board-game platform. Requires strong React and Node.js skills, product-mindedness, and experience with real-time systems. Role involves full-stack ownership, UX focus, and leveraging AI development tools.
Key Highlights
Key Responsibilities
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Nice to Have
Job Description
Senior Full-Stack Product Developer (Remote, Contractor)
Our Client
Our client is a US-based, product-led gaming technology company operating one of the world’s most widely used online board-game platforms, serving millions of active players globally.
They are a lean, engineering-first team focused on building high-performance, real-time game experiences. Engineers are expected to think like product owners — not just execute tasks — and ship meaningful features that directly impact users.
This is a builder culture, where side projects, curiosity, and hands-on problem solving are highly valued.
🎯 Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior Full-Stack Product Developer who is not only technically strong, but also product-minded and hands-on.
This role is ideal for engineers who:
- Actively build and ship products (not just maintain systems)
- Care deeply about UX, performance, and user experience
- Are comfortable working across frontend + backend
- Stay current with modern tools, including AI-assisted development workflows
You will own features end-to-end — from idea → architecture → implementation → user impact.
🛠 Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship user-facing product features
- Own full-stack development across React (frontend) and Node.js (backend)
- Improve performance, responsiveness, and scalability of real-time game systems
- Collaborate on product decisions, not just technical execution
- Write clean, maintainable, and production-quality code
- Conduct code reviews and uphold engineering standards
- Work with real-time systems, APIs, and relational databases
- Continuously iterate based on user behavior and product feedback
✅ Must-Have Requirements
Strong Full-Stack Product Builder
- 5+ years of full-stack experience (frontend + backend)
- Proven experience shipping real products used by users
- Hands-on ownership of features end-to-end
Frontend Strength (Critical)
- Strong experience with React.js in production (3+ years)
- Solid understanding of UX/UI and product design trade-offs
- Ability to build polished, user-friendly interfaces
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⚠️ Candidates who are backend-heavy but weak in frontend will not be a fit
Backend & Systems
- Strong Node.js experience (3+ years)
- Experience building REST APIs and scalable backend systems
- Good understanding of PostgreSQL / relational databases
Modern Engineering & Relevance
- Currently active with modern stack (React, Node, TypeScript)
- No long gaps from hands-on coding
- Experience working on production systems in recent years
Real-Time / Interactive Systems
- Experience with real-time systems, interactive apps, or games
- Understanding of performance optimization for live user interactions
AI Usage (New Requirement)
- Practical usage of AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude) in development workflow
- Ability to leverage AI for productivity, debugging, or feature development
Builder Mindset
- Demonstrated side projects, personal builds, or portfolio (GitHub/website)
- Passion for building beyond assigned tasks
- Evidence of curiosity and experimentation
🚫 Strong Disqualifiers
- Backend-heavy engineers with weak frontend capability
- Candidates without recent hands-on coding experience
- Profiles lacking GitHub, portfolio, or visible projects
- Engineers focused only on enterprise/fintech systems with low product ownership
- Candidates without AI tool usage or experimentation
- Pure managers / CTO-level profiles no longer coding
- Mobile-only developers (no strong web/full-stack experience)
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🌟 Nice-to-Have
- Game development experience (browser-based preferred)
- Experience with Pixi.js, WebGL, or rendering engines
- WebSockets, Redis, Docker
- Experience building high-scale, consumer-facing applications
- Strong product intuition and user empathy
🌍 Work Style
- Fully remote (async-first)
- Work in your own timezone
- Occasional overlap with US team if needed
- Full-time commitment (40 hours/week)
📝 Employment Terms
- Independent contractor (no local benefits)
- Flexible working hours
- Unlimited (self-managed) leave
- Laptop & tools provided
- $100/month tool allowance
- Annual company offsite (fully sponsored)
- Phantom stock participation
- Performance-based yearly reviews
🎮 Who Will Succeed in This Role
- Engineers who build products, not just systems
- Developers who care about users, UX, and real impact
- People who actively experiment, learn, and use modern tools (including AI)
- Builders with side projects, GitHub activity, or personal creations
- Individuals who thrive in ownership-driven, low-bureaucracy environments
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