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Join us to build the best puzzle gaming platform on the web - original games, daily answer pages, and everything in between. We're a small, fast-moving team, and we're hiring across a few roles right now.

Frontend Engineer (JavaScript, ReactJs, NextJs)

We're looking for a talented Frontend Engineer with a growth mindset to help us build PuzzNest, a cross-platform puzzle game platform spanning a Next.js web app and an Expo React Native mobile app. If you're driven by curiosity, creativity, and a desire to make an impact, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and build original puzzle games from scratch - game logic, board/UI interactions, and daily-seeded puzzle generation
  • Build and maintain daily answer pages for third-party games (Wordle, LinkedIn Games, NYT Games, Contexto), including SSR, structured data, and crawlability improvements
  • Build shared, reusable components and page patterns that scale cleanly across dozens of game pages
  • Own features end-to-end: from architecture and data layer through UI polish and shipping
  • Translate rough ideas or mockups into production-quality, responsive React/Next.js code
  • Optimize for Core Web Vitals, SEO, and performance across browsers and devices
  • Work across our Next.js web app and Expo React Native mobile app, keeping the experience consistent between platforms
  • Contribute to growth and monetization work - ad integrations, subscriptions, and experimentation
  • Evaluate open-source tools and libraries, and make pragmatic build-vs-integrate calls for a small, fast-moving team

Requirements:

  • Strong command of JavaScript, TypeScript, ReactJs, and Next.js
  • Experience working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with a user-first mindset
  • 1-4 years of relevant experience, with a focus on frontend development
  • Previous experience with startups and exposure to a range of microservices and architectural patterns
  • Comfortable working independently and owning projects end-to-end in a small team

Send your resume to puzznest@proton.me

Backend Engineer

We're looking for a Backend Engineer to own the data and infrastructure layer that powers PuzzNest.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and maintain data pipelines that sync puzzle content from database into our web and mobile apps
  • Implement and improve near-real-time update systems, including webhook-based (PubSubHubbub-style) content feeds
  • Design caching strategies (in-memory and on-demand revalidation) that keep pages fast without sacrificing freshness
  • Integrate with third-party APIs, including the YouTube Data API, to power video and answer content
  • Harden our backend for reliability, monitoring, and error handling as traffic grows
  • Work closely with frontend engineers to design clean, well-typed data contracts
  • Help evaluate when to move workloads off spreadsheet-based data sources onto a proper database

Requirements:

  • Strong Python backend experience
  • Experience designing caching strategies and integrating third-party APIs
  • Comfortable owning infrastructure decisions independently
  • Bonus: experience with webhooks/pub-sub systems, the Google Sheets API, or content sync pipelines

Send your resume to puzznest@proton.me

SEO / Content Strategist

We're looking for an SEO / Content Strategist to help us turn high-impression, low-CTR pages into real traffic and to guide our content roadmap across dozens of game answer pages.

Responsibilities:

  • Own technical SEO audits across the site, from structured data (JSON-LD) to crawlability and indexing issues
  • Analyze Google Search Console data to identify high-impression, low-CTR opportunities and turn them into action plans
  • Guide title, meta description, and on-page content strategy across game answer pages
  • Collaborate with engineering on structured data (BreadcrumbList, FAQPage, VideoObject, ItemList) and internal linking
  • Research keyword and content opportunities for new game categories and archive pages
  • Track rankings, CTR, and organic traffic trends, and report on what is and isn’t working

Requirements:

  • Proven experience with technical SEO, ideally on content-heavy or gaming/puzzle sites
  • Comfortable reading Search Console and analytics data and turning it into prioritized recommendations
  • Familiarity with structured data / schema.org markup
  • Strong writing skills for on-page copy and metadata

Send your resume to puzznest@proton.me

Mobile Engineer (React Native / Expo)

We're looking for a Mobile Engineer to take ownership of the PuzzNest Expo app - from solver tools to real-time multiplayer games - as it grows alongside the web platform.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and maintain features across the Expo React Native app, including games, solver tools, and subscription flows
  • Improve performance, offline caching, and overall app polish
  • Work on real-time features, including our real-time multiplayer game
  • Maintain and extend our subscription (RevenueCat) integration
  • Keep the mobile experience visually and functionally consistent with the web app
  • Handle App Store / Google Play submissions, updates, and store listing optimization

Requirements:

  • Strong experience with React Native and Expo
  • Experience with subscription/IAP integrations (RevenueCat or similar)
  • Comfortable working with real-time data (Firebase/Firestore or similar)
  • Experience shipping and maintaining apps on the App Store and Google Play

Send your resume to puzznest@proton.me

Growth / Monetization Lead

We're looking for a Growth / Monetization Lead to help us turn PuzzNest's traffic into revenue - through ad network optimization, sponsorships, and new monetization experiments.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead our transition to premium ad networks and manage ongoing ad performance
  • Identify and pursue direct sponsorship opportunities on high-traffic answer pages
  • Design and test new monetization experiments across web and mobile
  • Work with engineering to prioritize and scope monetization-related features
  • Track revenue metrics and report on what is working across ad, subscription, and sponsorship channels

Requirements:

  • Experience with ad networks (AdSense, Ezoic, or similar) and/or subscription monetization
  • Comfortable doing outbound sponsorship / business development outreach
  • Data-driven approach to testing and prioritizing revenue opportunities
  • Bonus: experience with content or gaming sites

Send your resume to puzznest@proton.me