Staff Full Stack Engineer

Blitz is a quickly growing and self-sustaining start-up that provides gamers with personalized stats and insights powered by billions of matches. High performance is at the core of our values. We are a team of gamers and entrepreneurial technologists with big ambitions. At Blitz, you will find co-workers who are friendly, eager to collaborate, and work creatively to ship market-defining software. If you thrive in an environment optimized for autonomy, innovation, teamwork, and embody our principles, Blitz is the place for you to make an outsized impact.

• Feature Development: Take charge of developing core platform features from the outset, with a focus on our backend API endpoints, as well as accelerating the team to ingest and access our large library of 3D models.
• Full Stack Architecture: Leverage your full stack experience to establish architectural patterns that enhance the productivity between backend and frontend developers.
• Best Practices: Lead the team by example with practices that accelerate development and long term maintainability of the codebase in terms of documentation, testing, peer review, and code quality.
• Collaboration: Work closely with product owners, designers, and engineering peers to iterate on features, ensuring alignment with the overall product vision and a bias for iterative progress.

• Expert proficiency with Typescript, Nest.js, React, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud.
• 6+ years of proven full stack development and the ability to demonstrate high competency with backend architecture, including building out RESTful APIs.
• A strong blend of technical depth, product intuition, and pragmatic decision-making, with a history of taking products from concept to completion.
• Growth-oriented, with a desire to achieve ambitious goals, combined with a low ego and a collaborative spirit.
• Demonstrated passion for startups or early-stage companies.

• A keen interest in generative AI, game development, video game mods, or 3D graphics.
• Previous involvement in the video game industry or an early stage startup.
• Hands on experience with any of the following: Prisma, Flutter, Expo, Three.js / GLTF, Blender, Pulumi, Next.js, Tailwind, Python

• Competitive salary: $140k-190k
• Annual performance bonus
• Stock options program
• Unlimited paid vacation
• Option for employer paid coverage (Medical, Dental, Vision) plan
• 401(k) matching
• Company-wide team building events

Salary for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education.

Blitz is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and the use of affirmative action programs to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law.