What are the responsibilities and job description for the Member of Technical Staff (Frontend) position at Astrocade?
About Astrocade
Astrocade is a UGC gaming platform where anyone can turn an idea into a playable, shareable game in days, not months. Think YouTube, but for games. We’ve grown to more than 20 million users within just a few months of launch, and we’re only getting started. Backed by Sequoia, NVIDIA, and Google, Astrocade was founded by Amir Sadeghian (Stanford PhD), Ali Sadeghian (Ex-Google Research), and Fei-Fei Li (Godmother of AI). We’re building the infrastructure for a new era of interactive entertainment.
About The Role
Games are more engaging, more meaningful, and more fun than passive content — and we think everyone should be able to make them. As a Frontend Member of Technical Staff (MTS), you’ll help make that a reality. You’ll own the creation and play experiences that millions of users touch every day, working at the intersection of product intuition, AI-generated content, and consumer-grade polish. This is a small, dense team: you won’t be maintaining someone else’s system — you will be shaping how the platform feels.
What You’ll Do
Compensation Range: $130K - $220K
Astrocade is a UGC gaming platform where anyone can turn an idea into a playable, shareable game in days, not months. Think YouTube, but for games. We’ve grown to more than 20 million users within just a few months of launch, and we’re only getting started. Backed by Sequoia, NVIDIA, and Google, Astrocade was founded by Amir Sadeghian (Stanford PhD), Ali Sadeghian (Ex-Google Research), and Fei-Fei Li (Godmother of AI). We’re building the infrastructure for a new era of interactive entertainment.
About The Role
Games are more engaging, more meaningful, and more fun than passive content — and we think everyone should be able to make them. As a Frontend Member of Technical Staff (MTS), you’ll help make that a reality. You’ll own the creation and play experiences that millions of users touch every day, working at the intersection of product intuition, AI-generated content, and consumer-grade polish. This is a small, dense team: you won’t be maintaining someone else’s system — you will be shaping how the platform feels.
What You’ll Do
- Build and own core user-facing features across the creation and discovery experiences
- Work closely with AI/systems engineers to surface complex, AI-generated content in ways that feel fast, intuitive, and delightful
- Make opinionated calls on UX — we care about taste, not just correctness
- Optimize for performance at real consumer scale (tens of millions of users, high-frequency play sessions)
- Contribute to frontend architecture decisions and uphold high code quality standards
- Have 3–6 years of frontend experience (ideally on consumer products)
- Are fluent in React and TypeScript, and have strong opinions about their use
- Have built products where experience quality was central to the product
- Have worked on data-rich or real-time UIs (feeds, game rendering, dashboards, etc.)
- Are self-directed and work independently from idea to shipped product
- Experience with WebGL, canvas, or game rendering
- Experience on high-growth consumer platforms (Instagram, TikTok, Roblox, YouTube)
- Familiarity with recommendation-driven feed UIs
- Competitive base salary plus equity
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- Lunch provided daily
Compensation Range: $130K - $220K
Salary : $130,000 - $220,000