Poki is a playground where users, game developers, and advertisers come together to play and create. Let the world play!
Frontend Developer
Join us in building the ultimate online playground!
Poki is on a mission to create the ultimate online playground, bringing easy access to the best games on web to over 90 million monthly players worldwide. These games are created by a dynamic global community of 500+ game developer teams. At the core of our work lies a simple belief: play is how we learn. This value is embodied by our team of 55 unique individuals who each bring something special to the table.
What this job is about:
As a Frontend Developer at Poki, you’ll play a key role in shaping how users experience our platform. You will work on high-impact features and improvements, enhancing content discovery, social interactions, and performance. Whether you’re working on improving gameplay experience, running an A/B experiment, or making a new tool for our Content team, your work will directly impact our players.
Your challenge as a Frontend Developer:
- Building and Optimizing at Scale: You’ll help ensure a smooth, lag-free experience for millions of players across various devices and network conditions.
- Collaborating on Features: Work with cross-functional teams to design and implement features that improve the gameplay experience, community interaction, and player engagement.
- Ensuring a Seamless Multi-Device Experience: Poki is accessed across desktops, tablets, and mobiles – your role is to make sure everything works smoothly and consistently, regardless of device or screen size.
- Contributing to Code Quality: We value clean, maintainable code. You’ll help ensure the long-term quality of our codebase through peer reviews, sustainable practices, and constant improvements.
- Experimenting and Iterating: As part of a fast-moving team, you’ll experiment with new features, launch A/B tests, and constantly refine the platform to improve user experience and performance.
You:
- Have around five years experience in web development
- Are experienced with React + Redux and are comfortable using them to build dynamic, scalable SPAs
- Have advanced skills in HTML/CSS, creating responsive, performant layouts that work seamlessly across different devices and browsers
- Experience with JavaScript (ES6) and TypeScript – we’re migrating our codebase to TypeScript, and your knowledge will help us make that transition
- Familiarity with Figma or a similar tool, and are comfortable translating designs into interactive web components
- Bonus if you have experience with any of the following: RxJS, Playwright, or other testing frameworks to ensure high-quality code
- Unfortunately this isn’t a remote position, we are looking for someone who will be able to work from our office in Amsterdam regularly
Why work at Poki?
- The dynamics of a fast growing scale-up; a lot of personal responsibility and freedom, plus the chance to work together with a diverse, international, highly intelligent, and self-motivated team
- Direct impact on the experience of our community of 500+ game developers, and our 90 million monthly players
- A full time contract and opportunity to join our Employee Participation Plan
- Access to wellbeing initiatives, including massages, retreats, and check-ins
- Play is how we learn; we make sure everyone is growing, being challenged, and offer an annual training budget to support this.
- A hybrid work environment that includes a vibrant office environment with catered lunch, flexible working hours, work from home budget, and travel costs covered for those living outside of Amsterdam
Are you ready to take on the challenge and help us create the ultimate online playground? Apply now and let’s build the future of web gaming together!
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