Gigantic Playground, a CourtAvenue company, is a fast-growing creative technology agency that creates immersive and interactive experiences that connect people, places, and products in extraordinary ways. Our unique experience + technology approach blends creativity, immersive storytelling, and product innovation to create dynamic experiences that captivate, engage, and delight.

Gigantic Playground, a CourtAvenue company, is a fast-growing creative technology agency that creates immersive and interactive experiences that connect people, places, and products in extraordinary ways. Our unique experience + technology approach blends creativity, immersive storytelling, and product innovation to create dynamic experiences that captivate, engage, and delight.

We're looking for a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to join the Gigantic Playground team. You'll play a central role in driving technological innovation for our clients - primarily in the business-to-consumer space - by crafting cutting-edge interactive experiences for their customers. The work spans exploring technology solutions, building prototypes, and shipping production-ready systems in collaboration with internal, client, and partner teams. We expect you to keep sharpening your craft, share what you learn, and push the people around you to do the same.

The ideal candidate is a skilled developer and engineer who adapts quickly, is deeply curious about emerging tech, is genuinely AI-native (beyond vibe-coding), and can discern good output from bad and lean on agents as a real force multiplier. You're self-motivated and can run independently, but you thrive in a collaborative team, prioritize end-user experience, and have a firm grasp of project lifecycles. Quality matters. Speed matters. Both, at once, in a fast-paced environment.

The Gigantic Playground team specializes in envisioning and implementing innovative ways for end-users to interact with technology, often in ways that don't look like traditional technology at all. We own the full architecture: ideation, system design, development, and installation, in partnership with our clients.

• Full-stack development experience (REST APIs, backend, DB modeling, CI/CD, Web UX/UI, HTML/CSS, mobile responsive).

• Ability to design and develop highly reliable, fault-tolerant systems, and to lean on AI tools to produce high-quality production-ready code.

• Proficiency in Linux/MacOS command-line tools and Bash shell scripting (Linux Server or MacOS power-user level).

• Proficiency in automated testing and unit testing.

• Knowledge of infrastructure as code.

• Experience with databases

• 5+ years of industry experience required; 7+ years preferred

You don't need to be world-class at all of these, but you should hit roughly 80% of this list with real depth.

• GitHub is required - you must have an OSS repo that demonstrates your skills!

• IDE with an agent, and a debugger with and without an agent. You should be fluent in both modes.

• Node.js with TypeScript, including deep async/await fluency.

• Linux server power user.

• Infrastructure as Code - Terraform, Ansible, etc.

• Cloud - AWS, Azure, GCP. Specifically: load balancers, VMs, security, cloud storage, cost estimation, cloud networking topologies, and cloud auto-scaling.

• Logging and observability, including event pipelines (EventHub, Firehose, etc.).

• Web frontend: React (and associated tooling like Webpack).

• Docker - building Dockerfiles with complex setups and multi-phase builds. 

• Docker Swarm - and you must hide your secrets!

• RabbitMQ & Message Patterns

• NoSQL DBs - Postgres, MongoDB, DocumentDB experience.

• OpenAPI / Swagger.

• Secure code - understanding of WEB & API attack vectors.

• Distributed processing - concurrency, race conditions, parallel processing.

• Caching services - programming for CDNs, ETAGs, etc.

• Test frameworks - Chai, Mocha, or similar.

Gigantic Playground is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Gigantic Playground recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran, or genetic information.

Gigantic Playground participates in the E-Verify program. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form (I-9) upon hire.

Gigantic Playground is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Gigantic Playground recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran, or genetic information.

Gigantic Playground participates in the E-Verify program. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form (I-9) upon hire.