Staff Front End Engineer

Scopely

3d•$169,600 - $253,000•Remote

About The Position

Scopely is looking for a Staff Front End Engineer to join the MONOPOLY GO! Chat team. This role can be based in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, or remotely within Canada and the US. At Scopely, the team is passionate about inspiring play and fostering deep connections with their communities. They are a global team of game lovers dedicated to developing, publishing, and innovating in the mobile games industry, connecting millions worldwide daily. MONOPOLY GO! is a global phenomenon and the biggest mobile game launch in history, with its companion app, MONOPOLY GO! Chat, designed to help players connect, coordinate, and share the fun beyond the game.

Requirements

8+ years of professional experience on a mobile app, game, or similarly complex product engineering team
5+ years of professional React Native development experience on shipped mobile applications, with deep knowledge of TypeScript and JavaScript
Experience creating native modules or platform-specific integrations using Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, Swift, or C++
Strong software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, concurrency, design patterns, API design, testing, debugging, and maintainable architecture
Experience identifying and addressing mobile performance issues using React profiling tools and native tooling such as Xcode Instruments, Android Studio profilers, and Perfetto
Solid understanding of mobile networking, offline behavior, unreliable network conditions, app lifecycle concerns, push notifications, and platform limitations
Experience leading technical design, influencing architecture, mentoring engineers, and aligning technical work across teams or disciplines
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
Excellent technical communication skills, including the ability to explain tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical partners
A desire to seek out and address player and stakeholder feedback to drive outstanding application development

Nice To Haves

Experience with the Expo framework for React Native
Professional experience as a full-stack or backend developer
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
Experience building and maintaining automations with GitHub Actions or other automation platforms
Experience with the Unity Game Engine and C#
Experience with mobile release processes, app store submissions, feature flags, experimentation, or staged rollouts
Experience with observability, crash reporting, analytics, or production debugging for mobile applications

Responsibilities

Leading technical direction for MONOPOLY GO! Chat features and systems in React Native
Turning ambiguous product goals into clear technical plans with product, design, backend, QA, game teams, and other partners
Owning quality, performance, release readiness, and platform integrations for production mobile app changes
Mentoring engineers, raising the quality of technical decision-making, and helping the team develop strong engineering practices
Using generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Codex, Claude Code, Copilot, and Windsurf while helping the team adopt safe and useful AI-assisted workflows