Product Engineer

About the role

As a Product Engineer at Colonist, your mission is to develop and enhance game modes and features to deliver excellent player experiences. You will oversee the full development of game interfaces, ensuring seamless UI/UX across platforms, high code quality, performance, and stability. Your technical skills and player-focused mindset will shape how 3,6 million players engage with our games each year.

What You’ll Do

• Evolve our game architecture, ensuring cleaner code boundaries and better scalability
• Architect multi-platform systems to enable consistent features
• Scale the codebase to support multiple game titles, while maintaining performance and developer velocity
• Own full-stack development, from backend logic to polished UI
• Balance technical complexity and product value, helping prioritize work that brings the biggest impact to players
• Review pull requests and mentor peers to ensure code quality, maintainability, and strong architectural foundations
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn concepts into highly engaging and intuitive player experiences
• Identify and optimize performance bottlenecks, ensuring gameplay feels smooth even under heavy load
• Continuously improve tools and workflows, leveraging automation, testing, and CI/CD for faster iteration

Requirements

• Deep experience with modern full-stack development
• AI first-mindset. We see AI fluency as a real multiplier
• Strong grasp of Git, code reviews, and collaborative workflows
• Proven ability to design and maintain scalable architectures
• Skilled in React, TypeScript, CSS, and building high-performance UIs
• Strong written communication, you explain complex ideas clearly in async settings
• Experienced with relational databases and REST APIs
• Passionate about board games, both as a player and a developer

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of data analysis or SQL for player insights
• Contributions to open-source or dev communities

Our Values at Colonist

• Dependability
• Ownership
• Clear Communication
• Efficient Execution
• Continuous Learning

Why Colonist

• Your work ships to 3,6M+ yearly active players
• Async culture; deep work, no performative meetings
• Unlimited vacation, yearly team offsite, full work equipment
• Budget to experiment with any AI tool you want
• Stock options: you'll own a piece of what you're building
• Access to all company metrics and internal discussions