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Scopely is looking for a Staff Full Stack Engineer to join the MONOPOLY GO! Chat team in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, or remotely within Canada and the US.

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 full stack 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 across mobile clients, backend services, APIs, data models, and game integrations

• Building player-facing social and chat experiences in React Native, backed by scalable C# and ASP.NET services
• Designing clear contracts between clients and services using HTTP, REST, protobuf, and other network communication patterns
• Turning ambiguous product goals into clear technical plans with product, design, backend, mobile, QA, game teams, and other partners
• Owning quality, performance, security, release readiness, and production reliability across client and backend changes
• Designing resilient distributed systems using patterns for async processing, caching, search, data modeling, event-driven workflows, and graceful degradation
• Mentoring engineers, improving technical decision-making, and helping the team adopt strong engineering and AI-assisted development practices

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of professional experience building mobile apps, games, backend services, or similarly complex product engineering systems

• Strong professional experience with C#, ASP.NET, and backend service development in production environments
• Strong professional experience building shipped mobile or frontend experiences, ideally with React Native, TypeScript, and JavaScript
• Experience designing and consuming APIs using HTTP, REST, protobuf, or similar client/server communication patterns
• Experience building cloud-native services on AWS with technologies such as DynamoDB, Redis, OpenSearch, SQS/SNS, or similar services
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including concurrency, design patterns, API design, testing, debugging, and maintainable architecture
• Solid understanding of mobile networking, offline behavior, app lifecycle concerns, push notifications, and platform limitations
• Experience leading technical design, influencing architecture, mentoring engineers, and aligning technical work across teams
• Ability to write effective prompts, supervise agent-driven development work, and guide safe, useful AI-assisted engineering practices
• Excellent technical communication skills and a desire to address player and stakeholder feedback

Bonus Points

• Experience with Unity, C#, or game client/server integrations
• Experience building real-time chat, messaging, social, moderation, notification, or activity feed systems
• Experience integrating social features with game systems, LiveOps, experiments, feature flags, or staged rollouts
• Experience with app security concepts, authentication, authorization, secure API design, abuse prevention, rate limiting, privacy, or data protection
• Experience with observability, crash reporting, analytics, incident response, or production debugging
• Experience building and maintaining automations with GitHub Actions or other automation platforms
• Experience creating native modules or platform-specific integrations using Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, Swift, or C++

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 merit and qualifications.

Scopely makes hiring decisions without regard to protected status under applicable law.