Staff Front End Engineer

Scopely is looking for a Staff Front End Engineer to join the MONOPOLY GO! Chat team in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, or remotely within Canada and the US. At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues, or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing, and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people worldwide every day. MONOPOLY GO! is a global phenomenon and the biggest mobile game launch in history, captivating millions of players worldwide. MONOPOLY GO! Chat is a companion app that helps players connect, coordinate, and share the fun beyond the game. What You Will Do You will work closely with a small, cross-functional team to guide, build, and improve features for the companion app of a game played by millions of players worldwide. You will be responsible for: 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 What We're Looking For 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 Bonus Points 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 At Scopely, we create games for everyone - and want to ensure that the people behind our games reflect that! We are committed to creating a diverse, supportive work environment where everyone is treated with respect. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and welcome individuals from all backgrounds to join us and embrace the adventure! Employment at Scopely is based solely on a person's meri