Jackbox Games

Jackbox Games

Jackbox Games is a developer and publisher of comedic party games like YOU DON’T KNOW JACK, Fibbage, and Quiplash. They are known for their innovative concept of using mobile devices as controllers, allowing easy access for players to join games.

Internet Software & Services
11-50
Founded 1995
$25M raised

Description

  • Design, build, and maintain backend services in Go for current and future company needs.
  • Develop front-end features and interfaces that connect to live backend systems.
  • Help architect, build, and scale the end-to-end systems powering real-time interactive content delivery.
  • Own and operate services in a live production environment, including monitoring, incident response, and on-call support.
  • Model and optimize relational database schemas for performance, reliability, and scale.
  • Collaborate with game teams, designers, and product managers to turn creative ideas into technical solutions.
  • Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and ongoing engineering process improvements.
  • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment tooling.

Requirements

  • Less than 2 years of professional software engineering experience across front-end and backend systems.
  • Strong proficiency in Go for backend and service development.
  • Hands-on experience designing and querying relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
  • Experience operating live, high-availability services with 24/7 uptime, SLAs, and on-call responsibilities.
  • Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services.
  • Comfort working with modern front-end frameworks such as Vue, TypeScript, and NuxtJS.
  • Understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and how they interact with the SDLC.
  • Strong debugging, profiling, and observability skills, including logging, metrics, and tracing.
  • Experience with real-time streaming protocols such as WebRTC, HLS, or RTMP, or with low-latency media delivery.
  • Experience with message queues and event-driven architectures such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
  • Contributions to open-source projects or a visible engineering presence, such as a blog, talks, or classroom projects.

Benefits

  • Pay range of $93,492 to $112,276.
  • 401(k) with matching.
  • Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance options.
  • Flexible work schedule and environment, including remote work in select states or office work in Chicago.
  • Flexible PTO.
  • Annual stipends for therapy, growth, wellness, and home office equipment.
  • Free food, including stocked snacks and frequent DoorDash credits.
  • Creative, collaborative work environment.

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