Company Mission

At Jamango! our mission is to unlock imagination and empower people to play, connect and create without barriers.

Company Overview

Jamango! is a browser-native gaming platform that enables anyone to create, and play user-generated game content, instantly. Anyone can start building in seconds using simple and familiar building blocks. Creators can change their environment, build at scale and even sculpt blocks to create unique shapes and structures. Every single block in the world is fully programmable, and using powerful tools such as the Wrench, creators can add logic to build fully fledged games and experiences without any coding. Jamango! is built on a proprietary game engine that runs natively in your web-browser; creators and players can invite friends instantly, simply by sharing a link.

We are a VC backed team of previously exited founders that are truly passionate about empowering creators and players to play, connect and create without barriers. We’re recruiting a world-class team to come on this journey, to build the most accessible sandbox game ever.

Job Mission

The mission for the Junior Product Engineer will be to contribute to the construction of the Jamango! platform, focusing on the web app infrastructure. This developer will primarily develop world-class, user-facing web experiences in React, whilst also being able to work on server-side functionality (Rails / RestAPI / Postgres / Node.js), and interface with some elements of our game engine (JS). This developer will collaborate closely with the game itself, assisting in the creation of tools that enable creators to build worlds, add game logic, and publish them to players.

This Junior Product Engineer should care about creating clean, efficient code and have a focus on the end-user experience. Although this is a traditional full stack web application development role, this developer will have the opportunity to work on specific game-related UI. Therefore, an interest and basic understanding of game design is necessary. The Junior Product Engineer will work closely with our experienced team, learning and growing while actively contributing to our platform infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Craft a world-class, engaging, functional front-end experience for creators and players of Jamango!. These front-end experiences are complex, and will require some understanding of game design.
Interface with our game engine (JS) team to expose opportunities for game creators to make experiences on our platform.
Develop cross-platform UI (using React & Tailwind).
Work closely with designers, product and creator community to understand how the product is being used and identify optimisations/improvements to user experience.
Understanding of analytics, to improve user activation and retention metrics, and help drive business KPIs.
Being comfortable writing backend code to bring a feature from inception to full-stack implementation.

Requirements

Personal portfolio to showcase work.
Passion for good design.
Excellent communication and listening skills, as well as empathy towards creators and players.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, remote environment amongst a world-class team with high operational standards.
Experience in designing and building game mechanics is required with an existing portfolio is a bonus.
Understanding of React, Javascript, ThreeJS is a bonus.
BSc in Computer Science or related field is a bonus.

The Benefits

Stock options in a VC-backed high potential business, with previously exited founders.
Competitive salary.
WFH stipend to support your home office needs.
Twice a year company off-site in-person get together.
Remote-work supported.
Become a founding team member of a hungry, passionate team taking on an enormous mission and challenge.

If you are passionate about designing and building world-class user experience that drive engaging gameplay mechanics we look forward to hearing from you!