Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Weekend•San Francisco, CA

1d•$165,000 - $228,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Weekend is the leading developer of voice AI games for smart TVs. Our games attract millions of users every month, with family favorites like Jeopardy!, Song Quiz, CoComelon: Sing and Play with JJ, and Wheel of Fortune. 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.” Weekend was founded by Max Child and James Wilsterman in 2024. The founders went through Y Combinator in 2018 and landed a spot on the 2022 YC Top Companies List. We’re a quickly-growing team headquartered in Union Square, San Francisco. Weekend is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform Team — the team that owns the foundational backend services powering all of Weekend’s AI-powered games. You’ll work on identity management, payment systems, leaderboards, party systems, controller integrations, and developer tooling. You’ll also help bring Weekend to new platforms like TVs and consoles, and contribute to the agent harnesses we’re building to autonomously develop new platform features. This is a high-ownership, high-impact IC role at a time when the team needs to move fast across a broad scope. You’ll be a technical partner to game teams and other stakeholders, driving platform services from design through production. 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.

Requirements

5–8 years of software engineering experience, with a strong track record owning backend or platform services
Experience building foundational infrastructure that multiple products depend on — identity/auth, payments, subscriptions, shared APIs, or similar
Comfort serving as the primary technical contact for product and design partners: scoping cross-cutting work, pushing back on scope creep, and surfacing 80/20 opportunities
Deep sense of ownership across the full software development lifecycle — from requirements through production support
Ability to develop a strategy or plan for solving a problem without much direction, execute flawlessly, and build repeatable processes

Nice To Haves

Experience in gaming, real-time/multiplayer systems (party, leaderboards), or other consumer products at scale
Background building internal developer tooling or improving developer experience with a bias toward automation
Experience building AI/LLM tooling and agentic workflows

Responsibilities

Expand Weekend’s footprint to additional TV and console platforms, building and maintaining the platform-specific integrations each one requires
Partner with game engineering teams to scope cross-cutting capabilities such as social features and identity, translating shared needs into reusable platform services and delivering them end to end
Develop and enhance the team’s agent harness, extending its capabilities to debug issues, handle platform support requests, and investigate incidents autonomously
Expand subscription systems to support additional payment providers as well as TV-platform account and billing systems
Build features that ensure a consistent customer experience across all of Weekend’s games, such as social features and leaderboards
Serve as a reliable on-call partner for the team’s broad platform support scope

Benefits

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401k matching
Flexible, hybrid work-from-home and in-office work model
Unlimited paid time off (enforced 2-week minimum)
14 paid holidays
40 hours of bereavement leave
Unlimited sick days
Generous parental leave policy includes 24 weeks at 100% pay for birthing parents and 12 weeks at 100% pay for non-birthing parents
Visa support for eligible candidates