Senior Software Engineer, Volley
Song Quiz
$165.8-228k
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Voice AI games
Open for applications
Voice AI games
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$165.8-228k
More information about location
3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make everyday life a little more entertaining.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong full-stack development skills with modern Node.js and TypeScript
- Experience shipping production-ready code, know when to “buy” vs build
- Deep knowledge of testing strategies
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and mentorship abilities
- Low ego, leads with empathy and kindness
- Built and deployed consumer-facing applications or games at scale
- Worked in fast-paced environments focused on rapid iteration
- Led testing, automation, and developer workflow improvements
- Designed and optimized distributed systems and scalable architectures
What the job involves
- Volley’s product engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to drive product quality, scalable architecture, and robust engineering practices
- You will be responsible for shipping high-impact features while ensuring software quality and reliability
- This role involves collaborating with product, design, and engineering teams to optimize technical execution. You will provide technical leadership, mentorship, and process improvements to enhance team efficiency
- This position requires hands-on coding, strategic decision-making, and continuous improvement in developer experience, testing, and deployment
- Own the full-stack features you deliver from ideation through post-production maintenance
- Own service managing music content, including:
- Implementing adaptive progression mechanics to present an appropriate level of difficulty for players
- Integrating content from various sources, music labels
- Partner with other senior engineers to maintain a high technical bar, looking out for things like testing strategy, implementation patterns, developer experience, and delivery practices
- Collaborate with product management and engineering management to scope initiatives
- Demonstrate clear vision and an ability to make pragmatic design and delivery choices
- Mentor, pair with, and up-level other engineers within the Volley organization
- Work with product, design, and QA to ensure seamless feature delivery
- Your First 90 Days:
- Get oriented with the team, tech stack, and processes
- Push production-ready code and contribute to PR reviews
- Onboard into on-call rotation and take ownership of features
- Lead a major feature from planning to delivery
- Our Stack: TypeScript, Node.js, React, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Currently transitioning to Chromium-based development from Roku
Application process
- Stage 1: (Preliminary Screen): with our Senior Recruiting Lead
- Stage 2: (Engineering Panel): with various members of our engineering team
- Stage 3: (Onsite Interview): with various partners and team members
- Stage 4: (Founder Chat): with our Founders
- Stage 5: (Offer)
Our take
Volley is carving a niche in the gaming industry by developing voice-enabled games. By leveraging advanced AI capabilities, Volley provides a gaming experience where players interact with games purely through voice commands.
The success of Volley's games underscores its appeal across diverse demographics, with over 5M people playing its games monthly. Recognizing the transformative potential of AI in gaming, Volley continues to push boundaries by enhancing its AI technologies.
This feat hasn't gone unnoticed by investors, with the company recently securing substantial funding. This infusion of capital will fuel the creation of new voice-controlled games and expand its portfolio to captivate new customers.
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Company benefits
- Healthcare, dental, and vision plans are fully covered by Volley for both employees and dependents
- Reimbursements for One Medical memberships
- 16 paid holidays
- 4 week vacation, with a 2 week minimum
- Parental Leave: 24 weeks at 100% pay for birthing parent, 12 weeks at 100% pay for non-birthing parent
- 40 hours bereavement leave per year
- Unlimited sick days
- Up to 8 weeks unpaid leave per year
- 4 weeks remote work per year
- Up to $250 per month for commuting (Lyft, BART, muni, gas, parking, etc). You may also use this towards WFH supplies
- Lunch in office M, T, W, & F
- $150 a month to cover Thursday lunches/lunches for other days you are not in the office. For permenetly remote employees, the stipend is $250
- $500 per year to help you grow your career
- You will recieve a Macbook Pro (or computer of your choice) upon starting
- Matched 401k plan through Guideline
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Max Child
(CEO)Previously co-founded Streak Trivia where they served as an iOS Developer. They also worked at The Infatuation as a Writer and iOS Developer.
James Wilsterman
(CTO)Previously co-founded Streak Trivia. Prior to that, they were a Senior Analyst at First Manhattan Consulting Group.
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