The Role
Help us build groundbreaking real-time experiences at scale. We're looking for an experienced mid-weight full-stack developer to join our team.
You'll work across our entire stack on a variety of projects - from contributing to our next-gen real-time crowd games platform to reskinning existing games for clients, maintaining products like our 50,000 player Quiiz and PenKick, and tackling whatever needs doing to keep our events running smoothly. You'll work closely with our small team to ensure everything works reliably when it counts.
About Us
Piing makes games for crowds. From 30 players racing in a Formula 1 fanzone, to 50,000 fans taking penalty kicks in a stadium at the World Cup, our games engage audiences worldwide. We’re at the heart of major events including four Premier League teams, FIFA, F1, Formula E, Wimbledon, Glastonbury and outdoor cinemas.
About You
Experience: 3+ years working professionally on production projects. You know what it's like to build and maintain products that real users depend on.
Versatile: Comfortable moving between frontend, backend and infrastructure tasks as needed.
Curious: Enjoy learning new technologies and approaches, particularly around scalable, real-time experiences using AWS, WebSockets, and similar tools.
Collaborative: Work well in a team, value pairing on tricky problems, and enjoy sharing knowledge with colleagues.
Clear Communicator: Able to explain technical concepts clearly, share ideas constructively, and contribute to thoughtful discussions about direction and approach.
Level-Headed: Stay calm when things get tricky, think through problems methodically, and focus on finding good solutions.
Genuinely Interested: Care about creating experiences that engage fans at major events, and enjoy the variety that comes with working in a small, focused team.
Tech Stack
We need someone from an AWS / React / TypeScript / JavaScript / Node.js background as that's where we spend 90% of our time, but we're not expecting you to be an expert at everything - we all have our strengths. What's more important is that you're willing to touch on any tech required and learn your way through it. As a guide, these are the kinds of technologies we use:
Must-haves: React, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Git.
Nice-to-haves: Redis, DynamoDB, Postgres / MySQL, WebSockets, AWS services (CloudFront, ECS, Lambda, S3, ElastiCache, EC2), the odd bit of PHP, Pulumi, Vite, Webpack, Docker, CI/CD, unit testing.
Key Responsibilities
Improve Our Products: Enhance the performance, reliability and scalability of our existing products while implementing new features to improve user experience.
Build New Things: Get hands-on developing our future real-time platform and supporting services.
Take Direction: You'll receive task assignments and priorities from senior developers, with the freedom to suggest approaches and ask questions.
Learn and Share: Learn from the team, receive feedback constructively, and contribute to our collaborative culture by sharing knowledge and supporting each other's growth.
Stay Flexible: Move between tasks as priorities shift. Since we run live events alongside our products, you'll help troubleshoot and resolve issues to keep experiences running smoothly.
Team Culture
Small team, big impact: Bringing people together is what we do, and that starts with our close-knit team, supporting each other to make the world more fun.
Everyone's voice counts: We make decisions together and value input from the whole team, regardless of role or seniority.
We hire for fit: We look for people who share our enthusiasm for what we build and who'll thrive in a small team where everyone's contribution matters.
Happy on a Mac: We'll supply one! We're Mac-only - we like things that just work. Not used to it? We'll soon get you up to speed.
What we offer
Modern kit: MacBook Pro and other equipment you need to work effectively.
Remote-first: Work from anywhere in the UK with the equipment we provide.
Holiday: 25 + bank holidays.
Flexibility: Core hours are 9am-5:30pm with an hour for lunch typically around 1pm. We're flexible about appointments, kids, school run and life admin - just give us a heads up. We trust you to manage your time and keep things balanced.
Next Steps
*Your application will be read by actual humans who care about finding the right person for our team.*
Send us: Your CV and a brief covering letter (both as PDFs)
Tell us about yourself: Please include a few lines about who you are, what interests you about this role, and why you'd be a good fit. As a small team, understanding a bit about you as a person is really important to us.
Next steps: We’ll be in touch. If we'd like to move forward, we'll arrange a call with our CTO Jamie and another team member.