GameXcel
Founding Full-Stack Engineer (Founding Team)
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Founding Team | Equity Only (Until Pre-Seed Funding)
About GameXcel
GameXcel is building the future of Player Intelligence for the games industry. Our platform helps game studios recruit engaged players, run structured playtests, collect high-quality feedback, and transform player insights into actionable decisions through AI-powered workflows and intelligent analytics.
Our mission is simple: help studios build better games by making player research faster, smarter, and more accessible.
We're an early-stage GameTech startup preparing for our pre-seed funding round. We're already growing a community of founding players and validating the platform with the games industry as we build the next generation of player research.
We're now looking for our first engineering hire to help shape the future of GameXcel.
The Opportunity
As our Founding Full-Stack Engineer, you'll work directly with the founder to bring GameXcel's vision to life.
This is more than a development role. You'll be one of the first people shaping the technical foundation of the company, building a platform designed to become essential infrastructure for game studios.
As our first engineering hire, you'll have significant influence over our technical architecture, engineering standards, and how we scale the platform.
We value engineers who think critically, ask thoughtful questions, and contribute ideas that improve the product while staying aligned with its long-term vision.
We're looking for someone who doesn't just write code, they care about building products that people genuinely love using and embrace modern AI-assisted development to build faster and smarter.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and maintain the GameXcel platform across the full stack.
- Develop scalable frontend and backend systems.
- Build secure APIs and scalable data architecture.
- Develop AI-powered features that transform player feedback into actionable insights.
- Integrate AI models, automation workflows, and third-party services.
- Transform product ideas and Figma designs into polished, production-ready experiences.
- Work closely with the founder to turn player and studio feedback into product improvements.
- Improve workflows, usability, accessibility, and overall product quality.
- Help define engineering standards, architecture, and development best practices.
- Leverage modern AI development tools to accelerate development while maintaining high-quality, maintainable code.
- Contribute thoughtful technical and UX ideas while collaborating closely with the founder.
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Who We're Looking For
You are someone who:
- Has strong experience building modern full-stack web applications.
- Enjoys building products from the ground up.
- Thinks beyond writing code and genuinely cares about the user experience.
- Is passionate about gaming and excited to build products that empower game developers.
- Has experience building with modern AI tools, APIs, or LLMs, or is excited to leverage AI to create better products.
- Embraces AI-assisted development and is comfortable using tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, or similar to improve productivity and code quality.
- Feels comfortable challenging ideas constructively and proposing better technical or UX solutions.
- Takes ownership, communicates openly, and thrives in collaborative environments.
- Enjoys startup life and is excited by the opportunity to build something meaningful from its earliest stages.
Technical Skills
We're more interested in exceptional engineers than a perfect checklist, but experience with the following is highly valued:
- JavaScript / TypeScript
- React and/or Next.js
- Node.js and/or Python
- REST APIs and backend architecture
- SQL and/or NoSQL databases
- Git and collaborative development workflows
- Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar)
- AI APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or similar)
- LLM integrations, prompt engineering, and AI workflows
- AI-assisted development tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, or similar)
- CI/CD pipelines and deployment best practices
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Bonus Points
- Experience in GameTech or the games industry.
- Experience building SaaS platforms.
- Experience working in an early-stage startup.
- Experience with analytics, research, or data-driven platforms.
- Familiarity with Figma and collaborating closely with product design.
Compensation
This is a founding equity-only position while GameXcel is in its pre-seed stage.
We're looking for someone who believes in the vision, wants to build something meaningful from the ground up, and is excited to become one of the earliest members of the team.
Our goal is to transition this role into a salaried position following a successful pre-seed funding round, while retaining your founding equity.
Why Join GameXcel?
- Become one of the first employees and play a defining role in building the company.
- Build technology that has the potential to reshape how game studios recruit players, run playtests, and understand player feedback.
- Work directly with the founder with a high level of ownership, trust, and autonomy.
- Influence the technical architecture and engineering culture from day one.
- Help build an AI-first platform at the intersection of gaming, player research, and intelligent analytics.
- Receive meaningful founding equity and grow alongside the company as we scale.
If you're excited by GameTech, AI, and building exceptional products from the ground up, we'd love to hear from you.
Think you're a great fit? We'd love to hear from you. Apply today.
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