Senior Software Engineer, Platform Foundations

Role Summary

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Hub Team . The Volley Hub offers a bundled experience of all our games and is the first point of contact for our users Hub Team is responsible for enhancing the user's gaming experience across all television platforms. This team owns the entire user journey, designing and implementing experiments and features that drive business growth by improving acquisition, conversion, retention, and monetization.

As a senior engineer on the Hub Team, you'll play a critical role in running rapid, data-driven experiments that directly impact Volley's top-line revenue. You'll partner cross-functionally with product, design, and data analysts to create seamless user experiences and help accelerate business growth. This is an opportunity to play a pivotal role in creating an innovative, fun experience in voice-activated gaming across connected devices.

This job opportunity offers a hybrid work arrangement, and we are specifically seeking candidates who are comfortable with on-site attendance in our Bay Area office 2-3 times per week and are either currently residing in or near the Bay Area or willing to relocate for on-site work.

What You'll Do at Volley

• Partner with Product to refine requirements, write technical specs, deliver features from concept to launch.
• Collaborate with Design to create delightful, intuitive experiences for users.
• Develop a deep understanding of our users and design experiments that drive acquisition, activation, and retention.
• Contribute to a fast-paced product engineering team by rapidly delivering new features and building principled learnings through experimentation
• Play a critical role in making key technical decisions, balancing long-term architectural health with the need for rapid iteration.
• Mentor junior engineers, contribute to code reviews, and maintain a high standard of code quality, architecture, and performance on the team.

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For Pay Transparency : The base salary range for this position is $165,838-$228,028 annually, based on a local (San Francisco) hire. The final offer amount may depend on experience, education, skills, and location. Base pay is one part of the total package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work.

About Us

Volley is the leading developer of AI-powered games for Amazon Alexa, Roku TVs, and mobile devices. Our games attract millions of users every month. Popular Volley games include Song Quiz, Jeopardy!, and The Price Is Right.

We believe voice interfaces will become the main way people access entertainment in their living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, and cars. We're building a bundled subscription product similar to Netflix or Spotify for the emerging category of "AI-powered games."

Volley was founded by Max Child and James Wilsterman in 2016. We're headquartered in downtown San Francisco in the historic Phelan Building! We're a quickly growing team that truly enjoys working together. If you think you would enjoy creating joyful games on top of a rapidly evolving AI technology stack, please get in touch!

Volley believes in an inclusive workplace and is committed to building a team from a variety of backgrounds. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive the other benefits and privileges of employment.

Underrepresented candidates and candidates from nontraditional backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply!