Senior Full Stack Engineer

Role

The Senior Full-Stack Engineer is sought to take full ownership of our core internal platform supporting live stream and warehouse operations. This role requires building and owning internal tools that directly support logistics, warehouse, or e-commerce operations.

What You'll Do

• Platform Ownership
• Serve as the sole owner and architect of the internal software, a Node/Express backend, React frontend, and SQLite database that supports every core operational workflow at Gamers Choice.
• Maintain system stability, security, and resilience, including authentication and authorization, database safety, backups, migrations, and incident response.
• Establish and maintain instrumentation, logging, and reporting so operations leadership has clear visibility into key performance metrics.
• Feature Development
• Design, build, and ship new features that directly improve revenue, including break configuration, promotional flows, and upsell experiences.
• Build operational efficiency features for picking, packing, tasking, and footage retrieval workflows.
• Participate in regular collaboration with the Chief of Staff and on-floor teams to identify pain points and translate them into well-scoped projects.
• Engineering Standards
• Use AI coding tools in a disciplined way to compress idea-to-deployment cycles, while owning all code quality, testing, and peer review.
• Maintain clear documentation of architecture, critical workflows, auth models, and database safety practices.
• Establish runbooks and operational guides that enable other team members to perform common diagnostics and basic changes independently over time.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of professional full-stack development experience with Node/Express and React, building production web applications.
• Demonstrated experience using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot) as a core part of your workflow to ship faster, with concrete examples of how you verify and refactor AI-generated code.
• Prior experience building or owning internal tools for operations environments, logistics, warehouse, ecommerce, or retail, where reliability and efficiency had direct business consequences.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with non-technical managers and end-users; able to explain technical tradeoffs in plain language and work at the pace of the business.
• Willing and able to work on-site full-time in Long Island City, NYC, and to participate in an on-call rotation for urgent issues affecting live streams, fulfillment, or warehouse operations.

Preferred

• Interest or background in Pokémon TCG, trading cards, or graded cards.
• Experience with livestream commerce platforms (TikTok, Whatnot, Twitch) or multi-channel ecommerce (Shopify, marketplaces).
• Experience with media-heavy applications, ffmpeg, image/QR/barcode scanning, S3-compatible storage (e.g., Cloudflare R2).

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Dental & Vision Coverage
• Paid Time Off
• 401(k)
• Employee Discounts
• Gym Membership Reimbursements

EEO/AAP Statement

Gamer’s Choice is an equal opportunity employer. We acknowledge and honor the fundamental value and dignity of all individuals. We pledge ourselves to crafting and maintaining an environment that respects diverse traditions, heritages, and experiences.

Operations

Location: On-site in our Long Island City, Queens Office
Schedule: Regular Hours Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 5:30 pm (may regularly require work outside these hours based on on-call issues, etc)
Reports to: Chief of Staff