Role Description
Scopely is looking for a Staff Front End Engineer to join the MONOPOLY GO! Chat team in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, or remotely within Canada and the US.
What You Will Do:
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Work closely with a small, cross-functional team to guide, build, and improve features for the companion app of a game played by millions of players worldwide.
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Lead technical direction for MONOPOLY GO! Chat features and systems in React Native.
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Turn ambiguous product goals into clear technical plans with product, design, backend, QA, game teams, and other partners.
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Own quality, performance, release readiness, and platform integrations for production mobile app changes.
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Mentor engineers, raise the quality of technical decision-making, and help the team develop strong engineering practices.
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Use generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Codex, Claude Code, Copilot, and Windsurf while helping the team adopt safe and useful AI-assisted workflows.
Qualifications
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8+ years of professional experience on a mobile app, game, or similarly complex product engineering team.
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5+ years of professional React Native development experience on shipped mobile applications, with deep knowledge of TypeScript and JavaScript.
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Experience creating native modules or platform-specific integrations using Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, Swift, or C++.
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Strong software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, concurrency, design patterns, API design, testing, debugging, and maintainable architecture.
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Experience identifying and addressing mobile performance issues using React profiling tools and native tooling such as Xcode Instruments, Android Studio profilers, and Perfetto.
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Solid understanding of mobile networking, offline behavior, unreliable network conditions, app lifecycle concerns, push notifications, and platform limitations.
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Experience leading technical design, influencing architecture, mentoring engineers, and aligning technical work across teams or disciplines.
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Ability to write effective prompts, supervise agent-driven development work, create or adapt agent skills, and guide a team toward safe and useful AI-assisted engineering practices.
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Excellent technical communication skills, including the ability to explain tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical partners.
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A desire to seek out and address player and stakeholder feedback to drive outstanding application development.
Requirements
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Experience with the Expo framework for React Native.
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Professional experience as a full-stack or backend developer.
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Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
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Experience building and maintaining automations with GitHub Actions or other automation platforms.
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Experience with the Unity Game Engine and C#.
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Experience with mobile release processes, app store submissions, feature flags, experimentation, or staged rollouts.
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Experience with observability, crash reporting, analytics, or production debugging for mobile applications.
Benefits
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Equity and bonuses.
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Comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare benefits and retirement benefits.
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Pet insurance.
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Paid holidays and paid Scopely free days.
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Unlimited paid time off.
Company Description
Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including:
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MONOPOLY GO!
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Pokémon GO
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Stumble Guys
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Star Trek™ Fleet Command
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MARVEL Strike Force
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WWE Champions
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Scrabble® franchise
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Yahtzee® With Buddies
Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team — including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami.