Staff Client Engineer

TL;DR: Highscore is looking for a staff client engineer to help us scale our clients & create a better experience for users!

You’re excited by the idea of getting in early at a fast-growing startup, and helping to shape the company’s vision, product, and culture.

You’re interested in one or all of the following:

Owning and architecting our cross-platform UI.

Owning and developing new 1st-party clients for Highscore.

Owning and developing new features for our ‘Highscore Premium’ subscription product.

You’ll work closely with our CEO to own, develop, and shape the future of the Highscore platform!

You will build and ship high-quality products quickly.

You will focus on the user and build features to solve their needs.

You will help drive the technical roadmap forward by contributing to architectural decisions + building new clients and features from inception to production.

You have high attention to detail that is reflected in the quality of your work, but you’re still able to balance taking on tech-debt with business requirements.

You have a passion for your craft that drives you to improve systems and code without being explicitly told.

You are excited by the opportunity to grow with the company! 🚀

Our current web client is primarily written in React (Next.js). Our backend systems use C, C++, Zig, and Golang.

We’re considering creating a more cross-platform-compatible UI using React Native in the near future.

We use Notion, Linear, GitHub, and Discord for async communication and project management.

That said, we’re all ears to new technology that can help us move faster. Join us to make an impact on our stack!

Experience working with real-time streaming systems.

Familiarity with graphics APIs or low-latency media pipelines.

Previous startup or founder-level experience.

Strong design intuition or visual / UI craftsmanship.

Zoom Screen or Coffee / Lunch (30 minutes - 1 hour) Chat about your background to ensure the role is a good fit + give you an opportunity to ask questions about Highscore!

Chat about your background to ensure the role is a good fit + give you an opportunity to ask questions about Highscore!

Take-Home Task + Follow-up Technical Call (2 hours - 4 hours) You’ll be given a challenging take-home task that’s designed to test your problem-solving skills. You can use your own IDE, etc. — the task is designed to take a few hours maximum, then we’ll have a short Zoom or Coffee, and we’ll walk through your solution + thought process on the task.

You’ll be given a challenging take-home task that’s designed to test your problem-solving skills. You can use your own IDE, etc. — the task is designed to take a few hours maximum, then we’ll have a short Zoom or Coffee, and we’ll walk through your solution + thought process on the task.

Team Interviews (1-2 hours) You’ll speak with 1–2 other folks on the team to ensure alignment with the team + role expectations.

You’ll speak with 1–2 other folks on the team to ensure alignment with the team + role expectations.

Reference Checks + Paid Work Trial (1 week - 2 weeks) You’ll provide us with 1-2 references from people that you’ve worked with in the past. After we check in with your references, we’ll then do a paid (fixed hourly rate) work trial (we can work around your schedule — a few evening hours, mornings, etc. are fine). You’ll work with the team to complete real tickets, have a chance to ask any questions that might come up, and get a feel for what working with us will be like!

You’ll provide us with 1-2 references from people that you’ve worked with in the past.

After we check in with your references, we’ll then do a paid (fixed hourly rate) work trial (we can work around your schedule — a few evening hours, mornings, etc. are fine). You’ll work with the team to complete real tickets, have a chance to ask any questions that might come up, and get a feel for what working with us will be like!

Offer extended

Our interview process is meant to simulate what working at Highscore is like as closely as possible. We love candidates who have checked us out online and come prepared with questions about Highscore.

https://forms.highscore.com/clientengineer