Entry-Level Full-Stack Engineer

Jackbox•Chicago, IL

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Jackbox is the mid-sized game studio behind the popular Jackbox Party Pack franchise. We’re known for releasing five new party games every fall; including Quiplash, Trivia Murder Party and very wholesome drawing games… your experience may vary. We’ve been featured on the Tonight Show, Polygon, Nintendo Direct, several chaotic streams, PAX Live events, a date between Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson (They still going strong?)...and the living rooms/finished basements/zoom calls of over 200 million users. Click the link to learn more about how our games work (spoiler: your phone is the controller), what we make and who we are at Jackbox Games. The Role We’re looking for an Engineer who thrives across the stack. Someone comfortable writing Go services and building a front-end to consume them. You’ll be taking on significant features across our engineering organization including our next-generation streaming platform that delivers interactive content to players in real time. You’ll help architect, build, and scale the systems that power this experience end-to-end.

Requirements

Less than 2 years of professional software engineering experience across front-end and backend systems
Strong proficiency in Go for backend/service development
Hands-on experience designing and querying relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar)
Proven track record operating live services with high-availability requirements (24/7 uptime, SLAs, on-call)
Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services
Comfortable working with modern front-end frameworks (Vue, Typescript, NuxtJS)
Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and how the SDLC interacts with them
Strong debugging, profiling, and observability skills (logging, metrics, tracing)

Nice To Haves

Experience with real-time streaming protocols (WebRTC, HLS, RTMP) or low-latency media delivery
Experience with message queues and event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi)
Contributions to open-source projects or a visible engineering presence (blog, talks, classroom projects, etc.)

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain backend services in Go that support both ongoing and future Jackbox Games needs
Develop front-end features and interfaces that connect to live backend systems, ensuring smooth player-facing experiences
Own and operate services in a live, always-on production environment including monitoring, incident response, and on-call rotations
Model and optimize relational database schemas for performance, reliability, and scale
Collaborate with game teams, designers, and product managers to translate creative ideas into solid technical solutions
Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and continuous improvement of our engineering practices
Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment tooling