Entry-Level Full-Stack Engineer
Jackbox Games
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Jackbox is looking for an Entry-Level Full-Stack Engineer to join our team!
About Jackbox Games
Jackbox is the mid-sized game studio behind the popular Jackbox Party Pack franchise. We’re known for releasing five new party games every fall; including Quiplash, Trivia Murder Party and very wholesome drawing games… your experience may vary. We’ve been featured on the Tonight Show, Polygon, Nintendo Direct, several chaotic streams, PAX Live events, a date between Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson (They still going strong?)...and the living rooms/finished basements/zoom calls of over 200 million users
Click the link to learn more about how our games work (spoiler: your phone is the controller), what we make and who we are at Jackbox Games.
The Role
We’re looking for an Engineer who thrives across the stack. Someone comfortable writing Go services and building a front-end to consume them . You’ll be taking on significant features across our engineering organization including our next-generation streaming platform that delivers interactive content to players in real time. You’ll help architect, build, and scale the systems that power this experience end-to-end.
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and maintain backend services in Go that support both ongoing and future Jackbox Games needs
- Develop front-end features and interfaces that connect to live backend systems, ensuring smooth player-facing experiences
- Own and operate services in a live, always-on production environment including monitoring, incident response, and on-call rotations
- Model and optimize relational database schemas for performance, reliability, and scale
- Collaborate with game teams, designers, and product managers to translate creative ideas into solid technical solutions
- Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and continuous improvement of our engineering practices
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment tooling
What We’re Looking For
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