Weekend Gameplay Engineer Jobs in California (NOW HIRING)

Our office is located in the heart of the beautiful Union Square neighborhood in San Francisco. Our hybrid work model allows the ~60% of our local employees to enjoy in-person time with colleagues a couple days a week, with flexibility as needed. The remainder are spread across the country (and world!) and visit several times a year to enjoy team events and bonding experiences.

Senior Software Engineer, Platform Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Role Summary

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.

What You’ll Do at Weekend

• 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.

We’re Excited About You Because You Have

• 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.

Bonus Points

• 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.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance fully covered for employees and dependents.
• Match 401(k) plan.
• Unlimited paid time off with a 2‑week minimum, 14 paid holidays, 40 hours of bereavement leave, and unlimited sick days.
• Generous parental leave: 24 weeks at 100% pay for birthing parents and 12 weeks at 100% pay for non‑birthing parents.
• Visa support for eligible candidates.
• Commuter and professional development stipends.
• Lunch free in office daily with snacks.
• Voice‑powered games for your TV — play together, out loud.

Compensation

Compensation Range: $165,000 – $228,000.

Base pay is one part of the total package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work. The final offer amount may depend on experience, education, skills, and location.

EEO Statement

Weekend is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Weekend will ensure that persons are provided reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process. If any reasonable accommodation is needed, please reach out to your hiring contact.