Senior Software Engineer, Growth
Senior Software Engineer, Growth
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$ 165838 - 228028
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Role Summary
Were looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Hub Team. The Volley Hub offers a bundled experience of all our games and is the first point of contact for our users. Hub Team is responsible for enhancing the users gaming experience across all television platforms. This team owns the entire user journey designing and implementing experiments and features that drive business growth by improving acquisition conversion retention and monetization.
As a senior engineer on the Hub Team youll play a critical role in running rapid data-driven experiments that directly impact Volleys top-line revenue. Youll partner cross-functionally with product design and data analysts to create seamless user experiences and help accelerate business growth. This is an opportunity to play a pivotal role in creating an innovative fun experience in voice-activated gaming across connected devices.
This job opportunity offers a hybrid work arrangement and we are specifically seeking candidates who are comfortable with on-site attendance in our Bay Area office 2-3 times per week and are either currently residing in or near the Bay Area or willing to relocate for on-site work.
What Youll Do at Volley
- Partner with Product to refine requirements write technical specs deliver features from concept to launch.
- Collaborate with Design to create delightful intuitive experiences for users.
- Develop a deep understanding of our users and design experiments that drive acquisition activation and retention.
- Contribute to a fast-paced product engineering team by rapidly delivering new features and building principled learnings through experimentation
- Play a critical role in making key technical decisions balancing long-term architectural health with the need for rapid iteration.
- Mentor junior engineers contribute to code reviews and maintain a high standard of code quality architecture and performance on the team.
Were Excited About You Because You Have
- 6 years of software engineering experience with products that have scaled users and/or revenue.
- Experience in growth engineering or similar rapid experimentation environments. Hands-on experience with experimentation frameworks A/B testing infrastructure and feature flagging systems.
- Excellent communication skills ability to clearly articulate technical tradeoffs and have a bias toward action.
- Strong product sense with deep empathy for users striving to deliver real value to players. Comfortable with data-informed decision making.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and work across the full tech stack. Proficiency in TypeScript and React (or equivalent modern stack).
Bonus Points
- Experience with gaming interactive media or AI-powered consumer applications.
- Prior work on cross-platform products across mobile smart TVs or voice assistants.
Our Stack
- Typescript &
- React
- DynamoDB PostgreSQL Redis
- Kubernetes
The Hiring Process
- Stage 1: (Preliminary Video Call) with a member of our recruitment team
- Stage 2: (Casual Video Chat) with Engineering leadership
- Stage 3: (Onsite Interview): with various partners and team members
- Stage 4: (Founder Chat): with our Founders
- Stage 5:(Offer)
Whats in it for You
- Your medical dental and vision insurance is 100% covered by Volley for yourself and all dependents and we match 401k!
- We offer a flexible hybrid work-from-home and in-office work model.
- We offer 4 weeks of 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.
- We offer visa support for eligible candidates making relocating for the job smoother and more streamlined.
- A full breakdown of our benefits is here!
For Pay Transparency: The base salary range for this position is $165838-$228028 annually based on a local (San Francisco) hire. The final offer amount may depend on experience education skills and location. Base pay is one part of the total package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work.
About Us
Volleyis the leading developer of AI-powered games for Amazon Alexa Roku TVs and mobile devices. Our games attract millions of users every month. Popular Volley games includeSong QuizJeopardy! andThe Price Is Right.
We believe voice interfaces will become the main way people access entertainment in their living rooms kitchens bedrooms and cars. Were building a bundled subscription product similar to Netflix or Spotify for the emerging category of AI-powered games.
Volley was founded by Max Child and James Wilsterman in 2016. Were headquartered in downtown San Francisco in the historic Phelan Building! Were a quickly growing team that truly enjoys working together. If you think you would enjoy creating joyful games on top of a rapidly evolving AI technology stack please get in touch!
Volley believes in an inclusive workplace and is committed to building a team from a variety of backgrounds. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process perform essential job functions and receive the other benefits and privileges of employment.
Underrepresented candidates and candidates from nontraditional backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply!
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
