Staff Software Engineer, Volley
User Interface
$189.5-260.5k
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Voice AI games
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Voice AI games
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$189.5-260.5k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make everyday life a little more entertaining.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of software engineering experience with a strong emphasis on front-end/UI development, including delivering visually immersive production web apps/games
- Deep experience building and shipping performant, scalable UIs using HTML5, React, WebGL/WebGPU and similar frameworks
- Experience with optimization techniques (including Wasm) for rendering performance, memory usage, and startup time on constrained devices, e.g. SmartTVs and set top boxes
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally with design, product, and platform teams to shape end-to-end UX
- A passion for observability, testability, and maintainability of front-end codebases
- Strong mentoring abilities and a track record of elevating engineering practices across teams
Desirable
- Hands-on experience with platforms such as Fire TV, Roku, Apple TV, or Android TV
- Knowledge of game engines such as Unity or Phaser
- Experience with pixel streaming
- Experience integrating AI/LLM-driven UX patterns in web or app interfaces
- Familiarity with voice interaction design, speech-to-text systems, or natural language interfaces
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Staff Engineer with deep expertise in front-end/UI engineering and building high-performance interfaces across living room platforms, including smart TVs, set-top boxes, and gaming consoles
- Design and implementation of cross-platform front-end systems that power our next generation of games, with a focus on performance, responsiveness, and usability
- Build immersive web frameworks including React, WebGPU/WebGL, etc. and custom-rendered UIs on constrained hardware platforms (e.g., Roku, Fire TV)
- Define and evolve our design system and component libraries for consistency across platforms while supporting device-specific optimizations
- Mentor and guide engineers in front-end architecture, code quality, and performance engineering
- Collaborate with AI and platform engineers to build tightly integrated, voice-enabled experiences that feel fluid and immersive on TV-class devices
- Drive tooling, testing frameworks, and observability efforts to improve reliability and quality of front-end systems at scale
- Represent the front-end discipline in company-wide planning and technical strategy discussions, ensuring user experience is a core part of our product architecture
- Our Stack:
- Typescript & Node.js
- React & React Native (Fire TV)
- Brighterscript (Roku)
- DynamoDB,
- PostgreSQL, Redis
- Kubernetes
Application process
- Stage 1: (Preliminary Video Call) with a member of our recruitment team
- Stage 2: (Video Chat) with Engineering leadership
- Stage 3: (Onsite) with various partners and team members
- Stage 4: (Offer)
- Stage 5: (Founder Chat) with our Founder
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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