Staff Front End Engineer

Role Overview

Staff Front End Engineer for the MONOPOLY GO! Chat companion app team. You will lead technical direction and help deliver high-quality features for a mobile app used by players globally.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical direction for MONOPOLY GO! Chat features and systems built with React Native
• Translate ambiguous product goals into clear technical plans with Product, Design, Backend, QA, game teams, and partners
• Own quality, performance, release readiness, and platform integrations for production mobile app changes
• Mentor engineers, improve technical decision-making, and strengthen engineering practices
• Use generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Codex, Claude Code, Copilot, Windsurf) and help the team adopt safe, useful AI-assisted workflows

Requirements

• 8+ years professional experience in mobile app/game/similarly complex product engineering
• 5+ years shipped React Native development experience, with deep TypeScript and JavaScript knowledge
• Experience creating native modules or platform-specific integrations using Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, Swift, or C++
• Strong software fundamentals: data structures, concurrency, design patterns, API design, testing, debugging, and maintainable architecture
• Ability to identify and address mobile performance issues using React profiling tools and native tooling (e.g., Xcode Instruments, Android Studio profilers, Perfetto)
• Solid understanding of mobile networking, offline behavior, unreliable networks, app lifecycle, push notifications, and platform limitations
• Experience leading technical design, influencing architecture, mentoring, and aligning work across teams
• Strong technical communication and ability to explain tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical partners
• Ability to incorporate player and stakeholder feedback to drive application quality

Bonus / Nice to Have

• Expo experience
• Full-stack or backend development experience
• CI/CD pipelines and GitHub Actions (or similar)
• Unity + C#
• Mobile release processes, app store submissions, feature flags, experimentation, staged rollouts
• Observability, crash reporting, analytics, and production debugging

Location / Work Model

• Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, or remote within Canada and the US.