As a Full-Stack Product Developer at Colonist, you will be responsible for developing and enhancing game modes and features to deliver exceptional player experiences. You will own full-stack development, from backend logic to polished UI, ensuring high code quality, performance, and scalability across platforms for a platform used by 3.6 million yearly active players.
What You'll Do
- Evolving our game architecture, ensuring cleaner code boundaries and better scalability
- Architecting multi-platform systems to enable consistent features
- Scaling the codebase to support multiple game titles, while maintaining performance and developer velocity
- Own full-stack development, from backend logic to polished UI
- Balance technical complexity and product value, helping prioritize work that brings the biggest impact to players
- Review pull requests and mentor peers to ensure code quality, maintainability, and strong architectural foundations
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn concepts into highly engaging and intuitive player experiences
- Identify and optimize performance bottlenecks, ensuring gameplay feels smooth even under heavy load
- Continuously improve tools and workflows, leveraging automation, testing, and CI/CD for faster iteration
What We're Looking For
- Deep experience with Node.js and modern full-stack development
- AI first-mindset. We see AI fluency as a real multiplier
- Strong grasp of Git, code reviews, and collaborative workflows
- Proven ability to design and maintain scalable architectures
- Skilled in React, TypeScript, CSS, and building high-performance UIs
- Strong written communication, you explain complex ideas clearly in async settings
- Experienced with relational databases and REST APIs
- Passionate about board games, both as a player and a developer
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of data analysis or SQL for player insights
- Contributions to open-source or dev communities
Technical Stack
- Node.js
- React
- TypeScript
- CSS
- Git
- REST APIs
- Relational databases
Team & Environment
- Fully remote, asynchronous team spread across multiple continents
- Cross-functional teams
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive salary paid in USD
- Negotiable range based on experience and location
- Stock (own a piece of Colonist)
- Async culture; deep work, no performative meetings
- Unlimited vacation
- Yearly team offsite
- Full work equipment
- Budget to experiment with any AI tool you want
- Stock options: you'll own a piece of what you're building
- Access to all company metrics and internal discussions
Work Mode
- Fully Remote
- We work asynchronously and value outcomes over hours
We are an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status.
